Trans-European transport network: progress and implementation of the 14 Essen projects, December 1994. 1998 report

The resolution on the Commission report: "Trans-European Network: Report on progress and implementation of the fourteen Essen projects, 1998" was approved without debate by the European Parliament. This report, by Felipe Camisón Asensio (PPE,ES) expresses the Parliament's regret that for five of the fourteen projects, both timetables and funding remain in doubt and that the Commission communication apparently accepts this state of affairs. It urges the Commission and Member States to make every effort to speed up progress on these projects and stresses the need for Member States to maintain public investment in the transport TENs. The report also reaffirms the need for a wide range of integrated measures related to the funding of these projects, to enable them to make progress and finally calls on the Council presidency to convene a joint meeting of the Councils of Transport and Finance Ministers, to find solutions to the problems relating to the timetables and funding for the transport TENs as a whole.�