24. 12. 88 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 356/5 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 4048/88 ~ of 19 December 1988 on the grant 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 (), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas, on 22 December 1986, the Council adopted under Regulation (EEC) No 4059/86 (}), objectives and criteria of a Community policy on transport infra- structure ; Whereas the appropﬁations entered for that purpose in ~the 1988 and 1989 budgets shall be subject to the adoption of this Regulation ; Whereas the ceilings for Community financial support for each project of this Regulation should be fixed by the Commission ; Whereas the European Council, at its meeting in Rhodes on 2 and 3 December 1988, asked the Council to adopt, before the end of the year, measures within the limits of the appropriations earmarked in the budget for the support of transport infrastructure projects; Whereas the grant of support for transport infrastructure projects under the 1988 and 1989 budgets is without prejudice to the action that will be .taken on the Commission proposals aimed at developing a Community policy on transport infrastructures, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Within the limit of the appropriations entered in the 1988 and 1989 budgets, and in accordance with the conditions set out in Articles 2 and 3, the Community shall provide financial support for transport infrastructure projects by contributing to the cost of the following projects : Project 1: Studies and preparatory work "Project 2:. Combined transport network UK-Benelux-Modano route Modano-Turin-Bari route sections : — Modano-Turin (") Opinion delivered on 16 December 1988 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (%) Opinion delivered on 14 December 1988 (not yet published in the Official Journal). () OJ No L 378, 31. 12. 1986, p. 24. — Bologna-Ancona-Bari Project 3: Application of new technologies in road traffic management RDS-TMC information system in the Rhone Valley Project 4: . Improvement of routes to the Iberian peninsula Sections of the RN 20: — Foix detour — Saverdun — St. J. de Verges N1-Madrid-Burgos, section Manoteras-Continents M40, SE Madrid feeder Madrid-Saragossa-Barcelona-French border Northern Line: Lisbon-Porto and connection to Vilar Formoso Lisbon-Evora-Elvas (Madrid) Project §5: Improvement of infrastructure associated with the Channel tunnel A 20/M 20 — sections: — Folkestone-Dover — Maidstone-Ashford RN28 — secation Abbeville-Rouen section E40 — French frontier-Veurne Project 6: ' High-speed  railway Amsterdam-Cologne London-Folkestone Brussels-Aachen Project 7: Improvement of the North-South transit route in Ireland Dublin ring road — Northern cross route line, London-Paris-Brussels- Project 8: Scanlink Ringsted-Odense electrification Project 9: Modernization of transit routes to Greece Evzoni-Athens-Corinth motorway, sections : — Elefsina-Corinth — Malakassa-Inofita Thessalonika-Idomeni line Project 10: International links in frontier regions Boxmeer-Venlo-Germany motorway Luxembourg eastern ring road Project 11: ' Transalpine routes to Italy Brenner line — second track for Verona-Bologna line