For the first time, the Transport Connectivity Programme will finance the purchase of new rolling stock. On Thursday, we are going to sign an additional agreement with Skoda for 5 more electric multiple unit trains to the already signed contract for 20 trains. This was announced by the Minister of Transport and Communications Krasimira Stoyanova during the Monitoring Committee of the Transport Connectivity Programme 2021-2027, held today in Sofia.
"We held negotiations with the European Commission and they accepted our arguments for amending the Transport Connectivity Programme 2021-2027 and including a project for the purchase of new rolling stock," Minister Stoyanova said. She noted that it is important that transport infrastructure is safe, sustainable and developed, but equally important is the service it provides. Minister Stoyanova said that at the level of the operational programme it is extremely important to work on overcoming the delays as well as on upgrading the administrative capacity.
Currently 9 procedures have been developed under the Transport Connectivity Programme 2021-2027, 8 of them are open. These include projects related to rail and road infrastructure, intermodality, innovation, traffic systems and more. The large infrastructure railway and road projects Plovdiv - Burgas, Phase 2, Volujak - Dragoman, Phase 2, Ruse - Veliko Tarnovo Motorway are to be implemented in the programming period.
As regards OP Transport and Transport Infrastructure 2014-2020, the financial execution is 99.4% and the examination of the submitted final payment requests for all OPTTI 2014-2020 projects has already been completed.
