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Country profiles
Annex V contains a number of country profiles, presenting information on the use of EU funds
for road projects. Presently there are only seven country profiles. Nevertheless they represent
almost all categories of countries:
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(b)
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Developed EU member states (Germany, France), which receive limited amounts of grants
from EU funds and do not use loans (from the EIB or other lending institutions) for their
road projects;
Developing EU member states (Spain, Greece, Latvia), which receive considerable
amounts from EU funds (ERDF, Cohesion Fund, and TEN-T) and use EIB and other loans
in addition to their national funds;
Non-EU countries (Iceland, Norway), which do not receive any grants from EU funds.
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Fig. 15: Total cost and EU funds for road projects in the period 2000–2006
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Fig. 15: Total cost and EU funds for road projects in the period 2007–2013
1.2.6 Loans provided by the EIB for road projects
Since its foundation, the EIB’s financing of transport infrastructures throughout Europe has been
one of its core activities. From the beginning of the TEN initiative in the 1990s, the financing of
the TEN has been an important operational priority for the bank; TENs are currently one of the
five main lending priorities for the EIB.
However, the bank is not restricted by the TEN regulations.
EU funds for roads