General National Spatial Plan / Shqipëria 2030

The Western Balkan countries recognized the
importance of an effective implementation of
the project in cooperation with the respective
International Financial Institution.
• The National Development Plan/National
Package of Strategic Relevance Projects
(National Single Project Pipeline) is designed
in accordance with the methodology
and recommendations of the European
Commission in order to strengthen
development policies in the national context
in compliance with the NSDI II (national
priority policies) and the regional context
(Connectivity Agenda), identifying, preparing
and selecting projects in the energy,
transport, environment and social sectors.
• The National Development Plan (NDP)/
National Package of Strategic Relevance
Projects (National Single Project Pipeline)
includes 41 projects for 2015 (17 projects in
the Connectivity Agenda/Berlin Process & 24
projects of National Relevance), amounting to
a total of 2.2 Billion Euros.
• The Government of Albania drafted the
first NDP/National Package of Strategic
Relevance Projects (NSPP) in 2015, a
package which covers four strategic sectors:
transport, energy, environment and social
infrastructure under the regional investment
projects as part of the Berlin Process. By
early September 2015, the total number of
submitted projects fiches amounted to 112.
After the evaluation within the framework of
evaluation methodology (second evaluation
component/maturity) the number was
reduced to 39 projects of Strategic Relevance.
The National Investment Council in its
meeting of December 9th, 2015 approved
the National Package of Strategic Relevance
Projects (SPP/2015) with 39 projects -
which was also submitted to the European
Commission.
The process to update and design a Unique
Project Package (UPP) has already started
for 2016. The Strategic Planning Committee
Secretariat is coordinating with the line
ministries to initially draft Sectorial Project
Packages and then compile a National
Package. All line ministries and relevant
institutions for the 4 WBIF sectors of
transport, energy, environment (water and
sewerage, flood protection, air pollution) and
social sector (education & sport; healthcare,
art-culture; support for prisons; housing) are
involved in the process.
2.1 Connection Corridors
In the European context, Albania's geographic
location favours the deployment of short
connecting roads that cross Europe, connect
member states at the borders of the
continent, and also Asia and North Africa. The
famous ancient Via Egnatia and the harbours
established in the Albanian coastline since
antiquity are early indicators of this. It is
deemed of relevance to render concrete the
European “central axis” roads that connect
the Northern Europe and Southern Europe
countries or the Gulf countries.
Albania has hardly benefited from this
advantageous position based on the fact also
that the connection corridors of the member
states have been built by bypassing Albania.
The political context and the country's
long isolation have been the main factors
which have hindered integration in the core
network of Pan-European corridors, but the
pace to become part of this network has
been low even 25 years after the political and
economic liberalization. No strategic plans,
which provide a long-term development
vision, have been in place to make this
geographical factor active and positive for
the country’s development and integration
to Europe. Now, Albania is in front of the
concrete picture of the corridors of European
Union countries, TEN-T 10 .
10
Network of Trans-European Transport (TEN-T) is a set of planned strategic networks of road, rail, air and water transport in
the European Union. TEN-T networks are part of a wider system of Trans-European Networks (TENs), including a network of
telecommunications (eTEN) and a proposed energy network (TEN-E or Ten-Energy).
TEN-T provides coordinated improvements to major roads, railways, waterways, airports, sea ports, inland ports and traffic
management systems, providing long-distance roads at, high speed, integrated and intermodal roads.
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