ХVI Meeting of the Monitoring Committee of Operational programme “Transport” June 2014 Velingrad

Agenda 04 June Status of projects implementation with beneficiary National Railway Infrastructure Company 2. Status of projects implementation with beneficiary “Metropolitan” Lunch: 12:35 – 14:00 3. Status of projects implementation with beneficiary National Road Infrastructure Agency 4. Status of projects implementation with beneficiary National Company Strategic Infrastructure Projects Coffee-break: 15:30 – 16:00 5. Status of projects implementation with beneficiary Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company ХVI Meeting of OP “Transport” Monitoring Committee

Agenda 04 June Status of projects implementation with beneficiary Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance of the Danube River 7. Presentation and discussion on the report for monitoring and control of environmental impact Dinner: 19:30 ХVI Meeting of OP “Transport” Monitoring Committee

Agenda 05 June Adoption of the agenda and the minutes from the previous meeting 2. Presentation, discussion and adoption of the Annual implementation report for Status of OPT implementation and preparation of the programming period Coffee-break: 11:00 – 11:30 4. Implementation of the Communication plan and publicity measures 5. Closing of the meeting Lunch: 13:10 – 14:20 Departure to Sofia: 14:30 ХVI Meeting of OP “Transport” Monitoring Committee

 Annual implementation report for 2013 Drafted in accordance with Regulations1083/2006 and 1828/2006 Contents information by the end of 2013 about :  Overall physical and financial implementation  Monitoring and evaluation measures  Physical and financial implementation of investment projects  Information and publicity measures Major problems:  Expropriation procedures  Archeological surveys  Release of GSM-R frequencies ХVI Meeting of OP “Transport” Monitoring Committee

Commitments Сertified to the EU Baseline for certification to the EU N+3/2 adv. excl

Railway infrastructure More than 240 km of railway lines were rehabilitated (track length), more than 260 km railway lines are under rehabilitation After the previous meeting was completed the rehabilitation of Lot1 of project „Plovdiv - Burgas“, section “Mihailovo – Kaloyanovets” ( ) After the previous meeting started works on “Septemvri – Plovdiv” project; modernisation of Sofia central railway station and reconstruction of Pazardzhik railway station Contracts for the construction of IMT in Plovdiv were signed ( )

Road infrastructure More than 140 km of motorways were constructed and more than 40 km I class roads were reconstructed Under construction are more than 125 km of motorways and more than 35 km of I class roads After the previous meeting was completed the project “Kardzhali – Podkova” ( )

Metro 13 new metro stations and 13 km of new metro railways are built Under construction are new 7.6 km of metro lines and 7 metro stations which are scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2015 Around half of the metro trips are made on the new sections

Improvement of maritime and inland-waterway navigation Under implementation are the three investment projects for improvement of maritime and inland-waterway navigation After the previous meeting was completed Phase 1 of BULRIS project ( ). After the previous meeting started the construction of traffic towers in Varna and Bourgas, part of VTMIS – Phase 3 project (16-17 April 2014)

 OP “Transport and transport infrastructure” – euro total budget (EU+NF) – euro EU budget (CF+ERDF); CF - 1,145 billion euro and ERDF - 0,467 billion euro

Preparation of OPTTI Prepared and adopted by Council of ministers draft of OP “Transport and transport infrastructure” Started the tender procedure for the construction of the first section of third metro diameter Started the tender procedure for the construction of “Sofia – Kalotina” MW JASPERS support for the preparation of transport strategy ХVI Meeting of OP “Transport” Monitoring Committee  OP “Transport and transport infrastructure”

Thank you for your attention! ХVI Meeting of OP “Transport” Monitoring Committee