No L 378/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 31.12. 86 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4059/86 of 22 December 1986 on the granting of financial support to transport infrastructure projects THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community - and in particular Article 75- thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social - Committee (2), N Whereas the Council, at its meeting on 11 November 1986, reached conclusions concerning the objectives and criteria to be applied to a medium-term programme; Whereas the appropriations included in the 1985 budget for the support of transport infrastructure should be used in accordance with those objectives and criteria; Whereas ceilings for the Community financial support per project for the 1985 programme should be fixed; Whereas the methods and procedures for applying this Regulation should be defined, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1.  Within the limits of the appropriations available under the 1985 budget, and on the terms set out in Articles 2 and 3, the Community shall grant financial support for transport infrastructure projects which comply with the objectives and criteria set out in the Annex. 2.  The projects referred to in paragraph 1 are listed below: Transit routes: — Brenner—Bolzano — improvement of the railway line — (Italy), — Construction of the tunnel of Chavants on the road access to the Mont Blanc Tunnel (France), (1) Opinion delivered on 12 December 1986 (not yet published in the Official Journal). : (2) Opinion delivered on 16 December 1986 (not yet published in the Official Journal). — Increasing capacity on the Aachen—Cologne motorway in- the region of Cologne (Federal Republic of Germany), — Construction of a by-pass at Braintree on the A 120 road towards the East Coast ports (United Kingdom), — Improvement to the Toulouse—Barcelona road in the region of Pensaguel—Le Vernet (France), — Increase of capacity and safety on the railway line Bayonne—Hendaye (France). Works in major corridors: — Between the Netherlands and Belgium — works to complete the Bergen-op-Zoom / Antwerp motorway (Netherlands and Belgium), — On the approaches to the Channel Ports and the planned Channel Tunnel — completion of the M 20 motorway between Ashford and Maidstone (United Kingdom), - On the transit route through Zeeland to/form Sweden, electrification and improvements to the Ringsted- Rungsted railway line (Denmark). Works for the better integration of areas situated geographically on the periphery of the Community: — On the main road between the Peloponnese and the Yugoslav frontier: — Inofita—Schimatari {(Greece) — Ritsona—Thivai (Greece) — Solomos—Nemea (Greece). — On thé principal Athens—Salonica—Idomeni (frontier) railway line: — Sfingas—Allartos (Greece) — Tithoria—Domokos—Larissa (Greece) — Salonica—Idomeni (Greece). — On the main north-south road in Ireland: — The Dunleer bypass (Ireland). — On the principal transit axis in the Iberian peninsula: — Irun-Portugal road N 620 (E 82) — Tordesillas bypass (Spain), — Oporto — Spanish frontier road IP 4 (E 801) — Paredes — Pefafiel (Portugal). Other projects: — Works in association with the construction of a new loading ramp for vehicles in the port of Ostend (Belgium),