ACTIONS TO IMPROVE TERRITORIAL COHESION IN ARAGON Spanish Group October 23th 2012

I.- Team: 1.- Victoria González: 2.- David Dominguez Santos 3.- Alvaro Santabárbara: 4.-Lorena Abad: 5.- Beatriz Santos Sánchez:

INDEX 1.- Actions to improve Special Planning as a Territorial Cohesion instrument: A. Drawing up a National Planning Instrument that sets up the general guidelines. B. Adapting the regional planning to European Spatial Development Perspective C. Formulate concrete actions and an economic development policy, with special stress on the elaboration of an industry and logistic strategic policy. D. Coordination between different administrations E. Connect local planning with regional planning. 2.-Actions to improve economic development capacity: industrial areas, accessibility and mobility, especially in logistic area, in order to promote territorial cohesion: A. Create a Strategic Plan. B. Accessibility. C. Mobility. D.-Alternative: “Build Operate Transfer”: The Private Investment Possibility: Public-private partnerships. 3

4 1.- ACTIONS TO IMPROVE SPECIAL PLANNING AS A TERRITORIAL COHESION INSTRUMENT.

5 ACTIONS TO IMPROVE SPATIAL PLANNING AS A TERRITORIAL COHESION INSTRUMENT Drawing up a National Planing instrument that sets up the general guidelines for all the territory and gets a vertical coordination between planning documents. Adapting the regional planning to European Spatial Development Perspective through the Strategic Territorial Act of Aragon which also should coordinate the action guidelines of any department with effect or impacts on the territory. Formulate concrete actions and economic development policy prioritising development areas and taking advantage of PLAZA Logistic Platform to reinforce the place of Saragosse and improve the territorial cohesion. Coordination between different administrations and also between national and regional sectorial policies that can achieve more synergies if they take the territorial dimension into account. Connect local planning with regional planning.

6 2. ACTIONS TO IMPROVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY: INDUSTRIAL AREAS, ACCESIBILITY AND MOBILITY, especially in logistic area IN ORDER TO PROMOTE TERRITORIAL COHESION.

7 A.-CREATE A STRATEGIC PLAN: Strategic Plan = Study Industrial and logistical areas+ Organize into Hierarchy + Emphasize concrete areas. Consolidate Unfinished and uncomplete areas. Make it easier for the companies to install on Aragon's territory on priority areas (especially in rural areas) emphasized according with the study, by subventions, taxes helps and facilities and helping with correct publicity. There must be made a global work to make investors and businessmen aware of the advantages and benefits of a coordinate and centralized activity and I+D investment. Look for international level synergies thorough joint programs or collective collaboration agreements with other logistic areas outside national territory, helping good practices implementation, innovation process development and business collaboration

8 B.-ACCESIBILITY: Connect Saragosse by train or road with main cities in Aragon. Aragon as national and international border : enhanced potential, especially goods transport. The Central Crossing through the Pyrenees would be a freight high capacity axe for railway transport. It would boost specific spots, as logistic platforms or dry ports. Opening Canfranc Tunnel, closed since ‘50’s in its French side.

9 C.-MOBILITY: There is a necessity to enhance other road and railway axes, we propose two corridors: Huesca-Lerida and Teruel- Alcañiz, as secondary corridor, creating synergies between transport and industry, solving territorial dispersion problem. Integral railway sector development, as a complete industrial sector and economic development axe. Give railway sector incentives as it is done usually to the industrial sector. Force good transport by train when arriving to a certain freight volume. Intermodality is decisive in the structuring of the nodes: Air-Land intermodality. Rail-road intermodality. Goods corridors. High-speed railways.

Current Scenario.Desidered Scenario.

11 D.-Alternative: “Build Operate Transfer”: The Private Investment Possibility: Public-private partnerships. o Build Lease Transfer or Build Operate Transfer (BOT) is a form of project financing, where in a private entity receives a concession from the private or public sector to finance, design, construct, and operate a facility stated in the concession contract. o BOT offers attractive business benefits over the traditional system of construction, rapid scaling of operations, lower costs for administration and reduced time to operations. o Aragon is not able to finance its entire needed infrastructure, but the BOT approach is an option to be considered.