1 Amendments of Gaston FRANCO related to 2011/0302(COD)
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 48
Recital 48
(48) Some of the infrastructure projects of Union interest might need to link with and pass through neighbourhood, pre-accession and other third countries. The Connecting Europe Facility should offer simplified means of linking and financing these infrastructures, in order to ensure coherence between internal and external instruments of the Union budget. In the transport sector, special attention should be paid to strengthening the links between the trans-European and trans- Mediterranean transport networks, particularly in order to facilitate the transport of goods via the motorways of the sea. In the energy sector, emphasis should be placed on completing the Mediterranean electric ring and developing direct undersea electricity interconnections between the EU and the countries of the South-East Mediterranean in order to structure the complementarity of the two energy systems.