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Rail Freight Noise - Unit Contribution

CEF RFN Unit Grants

Basic Information

Identifier
CEF-T-2022-SUSTMOBGEN-RFN-UNITS
Programme
CEF 2 Transport - Actions related to sustainable and multimodal mobility – General envelope
Programme Period
2021 - 2027
Status
Closed (31094503)
Opening Date
September 13, 2022
Deadline
January 18, 2023
Deadline Model
single-stage
Budget
€100,000,000
Min Grant Amount
Max Grant Amount
Expected Number of Grants
Keywords
CEF-T-2022-SUSTMOBGEN-RFN-UNITSCEF-T-2022-SUSTMOBGEN

Description

Objective:

The general objective is to modernise transport infrastructure on the Core and Comprehensive Networks of the TEN-T.

Scope:

The following projects will be supported:

  • Projects to reduce rail freight noise in accordance with Article 9(2)(b)(iii) of the CEF Regulation. The supported projects shall address works to retrofit existing freight wagons. Union financial support shall take the form of unit contributions as defined in the Commission Decision authorising the use of unit costs for the retrofitting of noisy wagons under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) - Transport (https://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/default/files/2021-07-22-ertms-af-noise.pdf).

Eligibility & Conditions

Conditions

Conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document 

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System

2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of the call document

 3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document

  •  Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document

  •  Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document

Support & Resources

Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application.

For help related to this call, please contact: [email protected]

Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.

IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.

Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.

Latest Updates

Last Changed: September 18, 2023

Information update on the 2022 SUSTMOBGEN call

Call published: 13/09/2022

Call deadline: 18/01/2023

Indicative budget: EUR 100 000 000

Total budget requested by the applicants: EUR 141 062 078

Number of admissible and eligible proposals: 11

Number of inadmissible proposals:  1

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of successful proposals: 4

Total budget for the successful proposals: EUR 48 910 500

 

List of successful projects under the 2022 CEF Transport call for proposals.

List of funded projects under CEF

 

For questions, please contact [email protected]

 

15/12/2022 11:11

There are few days left to finish your application in response to any of the 9 CEF Transport calls for proposals, closing on 18 January 2023 at 17:00. In total, 41 topics are open for submission on the  Funding & Tenders portal.

We strongly advise you not to wait until the last minute to submit your application!

You may also see the Call page, and the Info Day page to find the presentations and recording of the info day session. More than 600 FAQs are now available on the FAQ support on the Funding & Tenders portal.

To be admissible your application must contain Part A and the GIS duly completed online, and Part B uploaded on time. As indicated in section 5 of the Call document – also available on the Reference Documents of the portal, the mandatory annexes must also be submitted. These documents concern:

-          Agreement by the concerned Member States benefitting from the project  – for all applications

-          Calculator for ERTMS and RFN applications or detailed budget table per Work Package for other applications

-          Timetable/Gantt chart – for all applications

-          Environmental compliance file including the required declarations for all applications (except ERTMS and RFN applications). Please see the FAQ 18080.

-          Activity reports of last year and List of previous projects - unless exempted from operational capacity check such as public bodies, member state organisations, international organisations and beneficiaries of grants under CEF1 and CEF2.   

In addition, if the application concerns works:

-          Full cost-benefit analysis (CBA) report and CBA cash flow template - only for works or mixed projects with a budget (eligible costs) above EUR 10 million - unless exempted

-          Simplified CBA calculator – only for works or mixed projects with a budget (eligible costs) below EUR 10 million - unless exempted

We wish you the best of luck in your application!

Last Changed: December 15, 2022

There are few days left to finish your application in response to any of the 9 CEF Transport calls for proposals, closing on 18 January 2023 at 17:00. In total, 41 topics are open for submission on the  Funding & Tenders portal.

We strongly advise you not to wait until the last minute to submit your application!

You may also see the Call page, and the Info Day page to find the presentations and recording of the info day session. More than 600 FAQs are now available on the FAQ support on the Funding & Tenders portal.

To be admissible your application must contain Part A and the GIS duly completed online, and Part B uploaded on time. As indicated in section 5 of the Call document – also available on the Reference Documents of the portal, the mandatory annexes must also be submitted. These documents concern:

-          Agreement by the concerned Member States benefitting from the project  – for all applications

-          Calculator for ERTMS and RFN applications or detailed budget table per Work Package for other applications

-          Timetable/Gantt chart – for all applications

-          Environmental compliance file including the required declarations for all applications (except ERTMS and RFN applications). Please see the FAQ 18080.

-          Activity reports of last year and List of previous projects - unless exempted from operational capacity check such as public bodies, member state organisations, international organisations and beneficiaries of grants under CEF1 and CEF2.   

In addition, if the application concerns works:

-          Full cost-benefit analysis (CBA) report and CBA cash flow template - only for works or mixed projects with a budget (eligible costs) above EUR 10 million - unless exempted

-          Simplified CBA calculator – only for works or mixed projects with a budget (eligible costs) below EUR 10 million - unless exempted

We wish you the best of luck in your application!

Last Changed: September 13, 2022
The submission session is now available for: CEF-T-2022-SUSTMOBGEN-MOS-WORKS(CEF-INFRA), CEF-T-2022-SUSTMOBGEN-MULTHUB-STUDIES(CEF-PJG), CEF-T-2022-SUSTMOBGEN-RFN-UNITS(CEF-RFN-UN)
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