Article 1
Within the limit of the budget appropriations remaining from the 1986 budget and those available under the 1987 budget, and under the conditions set out in Articles 2, 3 and 4, the Community shall provide financial support for transport infrastructure projects by contributing to the cost of the following projects: 1. Studies preparatory to construction work - Scandinavian Link - to assist the development of a number of fixed links, - Transcity - preparatory work on a project to provide new rail services between the Saar, Luxembourg and France, - Demonstration project to improve the utilization and safety of motorways, - High-speed rail links - impact analysis, - Study of a European combined transport network. 2. Projects on major transit routes including those to assist transit through non-member States: - Road links to the Channel tunnel, - New railway tunnel on the Brenner rail route, - Strengthening of the rail link Netherlands/Germany, - United Kingdom/Ireland road link, - Works on combined transport routes Germany/Spain, - Combined transport centre in Verona (traffic through Austria), - Works on the rail link from Thessaloniki to the Yugoslav frontier. 3. Links to the Iberian Peninsula: - Modernization of the rail line Lisbon-Oporto-Spain (Beira Alta), - Motorway construction Madrid-Burgos-France, - Construction of a rail line Lisbon-Madrid-Barcelona (Coslada-Ricla). 4. Integration of peripheral regions: - North-South road in Greece, - North-South road in Ireland.