Combined goods transport: financial assistance to action pilots PACT

The re-examined Commission proposal retains Parliament's amendments introducing the concept of trans European freight freeways as a criterion for the selection procedure. The Commission, however, cannot accept the amendments aiming to: - provide the possibility of using funds from the budget granted under the regulation to support action outside the EU; - reserve as a priority 10% of the programme's budgetary provision for projects which would directly implement innovative research results. �