Translation of "Réseau d'infrastructure " (French → English) :

In March 2006, the Commission awarded a contract that included a CIWIN feasibility study, the objective being to collect information on best practices for CIP and to conduct interviews with experts in Member States on the requirements of CIWIN, both as an exchange network and a rapid alert system, taking into account existing infrastructures and networks at national and international levels.

That second reason is that this is an important economic measure brought forth to ensure that the infrastructure of the ports system in Canada functions according to all of those means and all of those standards that we have come to label as purely Canadian, which are the following: first, transparent; second, efficient; third, building on all of the partnerships involved in ensuring that the ports system will be reflective of the infrastructure needs of this country; fourth, that it involve the people who are expert in the maintenance and in the running of these operations, according to the business models that we expect would pass t ...[+++]he scrutiny of our own system, including the Auditor General; and fifth, it would ensure that the inefficiencies that might exist by virtue of the fact that smaller entities operating often in competition with each other are amalgamated into an environment and into an authority that can provide the services required not only by shippers, i.e. their main clients, but also by the macro needs of the country, and that is an efficient transportation system to get our goods and our services, but primarily our goods, to the foreign markets.

‘infrastructure manager’ means any body or undertaking that is responsible in particular for establishing and maintaining railway infrastructure, or a part thereof, as defined in Article 3 of Directive 91/440/EEC, which may also include the management of infrastructure control and safety systems; the functions of the infrastructure manager on a network or part of a network may be allocated to different bodies or undertakings.

The Commission is of the opinion that a network assembling EU Member States CIP specialists could assist the Commission in drawing up the programme - this Critical Infrastructure Warning Information Network (CIWIN) should be set up as soon as possible in 2005.

Infrastructures This subprogramme aims to set in motion a series of coordinated measures in the field of infrastructures, thus ensuring the conditions for the successful implementation of measures concerned with the development of economic activity. This will involve: - reclaiming degraded soil, especially hillsides, and protecting it from erosion; - opening up the areas where economic development measures are to be implemented: improvements to the road system, affecting some 18 km of roads, will promote all economic sectors, and tourism in particular; - improving the system of rural infrastructures, particularly roads and drinking water supply: the system of country roads wil ...[+++]l be extended and improved over 116 km, and 75 km of water mains to supply agricultural holdings will be provided; - creating environment protection structures, for the processing of urban waste and water and sewage treatment: some coastal resorts in the Cilento will be provided with a sewerage system and underwater disposal systems to prevent water pollution.

The Commission proposes the following priority actions as meeting these general criteria: - studies and preparatory work - construction of a combined transport network based on the results of a study which is now under way - development of new telecommunication and teleinformation technologies to improve traffic management and information to drivers - improvement of the Paris-Madrid-Barcelona-Lisbon-Porto-Algeciras road and rail transit routes - improvement of infrastructure associated with the Channel Tunnel - construction of a high-speed rail line between Paris, London, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne (1) COM (88) 340 ./. - 2 - - impro ...[+++]vement of the north-south transit link in Ireland to serve the ports of Larne, Belfast, Dublin and Rosslare - modernisation of the north-south inland waterway netweork between the Netherlands, Belgium and France - construction of the `Scandinavian link' - modernisation of the transit routes between Southern Germany/Italy- Greece - international links in frontier areas - improvement of other Alpine transit routes, especially into Italy Financial assistance A declaration that a particular project is of European importance would make it eligible for support from the Community funds allocated for transport infrastructure and from other Community sources of capital.