The Marco Polo programme Operational state of play

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1 The Marco Polo programme Operational state of play Patrick Vankerckhoven Head of Unit Marco Polo Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation (EACI) Marco Polo Info ay Brussels, 28 June 2012 MARCO POLO II Results of Call 2011 Received proposals Requested subvention Proposed Tkm shift Contracts under negotiation (max 35,35M ) Available budget ,6 M 36 b 19 56,9 M 2 1

2 Marco Polo: 2011 received proposals Modal Shift actions (38) Common Learning actions (5) Motorways of the Sea actions (1) Traffic Avoidance (3) Catalyst actions (3) 76% 10% 2% 6% 6% 3 The next call is open! 2

3 Timing and available budget Call for proposals 2012 Call 2012 published on the 20 of June 2012 Open 3 months till 21 st September 2012 Available Marco Polo budget for the Call 2012? 64,6 M to finance around 36 projects 5 Call 2012 Preliminary planning eadline for proposals: 21 September 2012 Opening session: 1st week October 2012 Evaluation by external experts: 2 nd half of October 2012 Evaluation Committee EACI: mid-november 2012 List of proposed projects to be funded (to MOVE): end November 2012 Start and end of negotiations: ecember/january 2012/13 Legislative procedure: 1st trimester 2013 Signature contracts by EACI : 1st trimester

4 Political priorities of call 2012 Political priorities translated into operational objectives for the Marco Polo programme SSS-MoS projects reducing polluting emissions of maritime transport (low sulphur fuels, LNG powered vessels etc.) - political priority max 20% of the available budget Inland Waterway Transport max 10 % of the available budget as political priority Single Wagon Load Traffic lower min modal shift threshold: 30 M tkm 7 Maritime projects in the call 2012 Specific political priorities for SSS-based Modal shift, Motorways of the Sea and Catalyst actions Open for all SSS and MoS projects to receive funding priority: 20% financial priority in the budget and extra points can be given if reducing polluting emissions- low sulphur fuels, LNG, use of shore side electricity, gas exhaust scrubbers. Possible unacceptable distortion of competition - a concern in particular in the maritime sector special evaluation process put in place -> became an eligibility criteria!!! 8 4

5 Maritime projects in the call 2012 Specific political priorities for environmental conditions and incentives for maritime projects under MO, CAT or MoS: (gives the awarded projects a priority, this is not an obligation!) You navigate outside the European Sulphur Emissions Controlled Areas! Maximum 0,5% of Sulphur content in the fuel used You navigate inside the Seca s! Maximum 0,1% of Sulphur content in the fuel used In those 2 cases you will receive priority points and could benefit from the advantage of the 20% of the budget political priority

6 Marco Polo: Who are the beneficiaries? Over the period : 182 grants awarded (10% are common learning actions) 664 companies involved 50% of grant beneficiaries are SMEs 11 First global environmental results of the programme since 2003! 6

7 Results of Marco Polo I Since February 2012, we have finalised all G.A. under MP I and final results are available! Over 4 years, 22,1 billion tkm have been avoided on EU roads thanks to the cooperation between Industry and the EU. These are trucks trips over a distance of 1000km (Berlin/Paris) with an average load of 18 tons of freight! 13 First results of Marco Polo II The expected results for the 4 first years of MP II The G.A. signed for the first 4 years, may avoid around 35 billion tkm. Around trucks trips over a distance of 1500km (Milano/Warsaw) with an average load of 18 tons of freight! More is to come with the G.A. to be signed for the years 2011 to

8 What can be reasonably expected for the global results of the Marco Polo I and II programmes? At the end of the Marco Polo programmes operational implementation we may expect: To have shifted more than 4 million trucks from the road to other modes of transport with a journey distance of 1000km each. This represents a virtual traffic jam avoided of km! 15 What can be reasonably expected for the global results of the Marco Polo I programme? What are the CO² and Env Ben savings? Savings of 22,1 billion tkm With a conservative approach, 1,5 million tons of CO² have been saved For an investment of 32,6M (modal shift paid under MPI) At a price of e.g 35 /ton CO², savings of 52 M on the nongenerated CO² Global environmental benefit generated based on the MP calculator: 432,9M ROI: 13,3 env ben per 1 invested 16 8

9 Existing support MARCO POLO Website Call text, model contract, templates Checklists, Frequently Asked Questions MARCO POLO calculator Slides of previous Marco Polo conferences MARCO POLO Helpdesk Tel.: Fax: Sign up to the free Marco Polo e-newsletter! 17 Thank you for your attention Patrick Vankerckhoven Head of Unit Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation Marco Polo patrick.vankerckhoven@ec.europa.eu EACI-MARCO-POLO-helpdesk@ec.europa.eu EC-MOS-helpdesk@ec.europa.eu European Commission, EACI.05 BE-1049 Brussels 9