Areas of Union competence deriving from the Treaty

Competences of the Agency as defined in Commission Decision 2007/60/EC of 26 October 2006

Governance

Resources made available to the Agency in 2009

Products and services

(Article 170 TFEU)

(Article 171 TFEU)

Objectives

TEN-TEA is responsible for managing the technical and financial implementation of the Commission’s TEN-T Programme. Its role is to improve the effectiveness of TEN-T implementation at a lower cost; to strengthen the links between the TEN-T and communities of experts; to mobilise a high level of expertise and make the recruitment of specialised staff easier; to ensure a better coordination of funds with other Union instruments; to enable the simplification and flexibility of TEN-T implementation; to raise the profile of Union action in the field of TEN-T; and in general to add value to the management of the TEN-T Programme.

Tasks

Its parent, DG MOVE, continues to address all policy-making and institutional tasks related to the TEN-T.

1 —   Steering Committee

The Agency’s activities are supervised by a Steering Committee which is currently composed of five members and one observer. The members of the Steering Committee are appointed for two years. The Steering Committee meets in principle four times a year. Certain measures or decisions need its approval before they can be implemented. This applies for example to the administrative budget, the establishment plan, the Work Programme, the Annual Activity Report, the provisional accounts of all revenue and expenditure, the external evaluation report and the adoption of several special rules and measures etc. On a number of other actions, the committee is kept informed. In exceptional and urgent cases, decisions are taken through a written procedure.

2 —   Director

Appointed by the European Commission for five years.

3 —   Internal audit

The Internal Audit Service of the European Commission and the Internal Audit Capability of the Agency.

4 —   External audit

Court of Auditors.

5 —   Discharge Authority

Parliament acting on a recommendation from the Council.

Budget

Staff at 31 December 2009

TA posts:

Total staff: 99 (91 occupied)

Responsible for

TEN-T EA set five specific objectives for 2009. The first and the most fundamental task was to further develop measures to increase the efficiency and improve the management of the TEN-T Programme and projects. The second related to the successful organisation and administration of all the 2009 Calls for Proposals, including the European Economic Recovery Plan. The third concerned the follow-up and successful implementation of projects selected under the 2007 and 2008 Calls for Proposals. The fourth concerned increased emphasis on information and communications on projects, in order to promote and support the TEN-T programme to all stakeholders. The fifth and final specific objective was to establish and consolidate the Agency in its final operational form.

In addition, a number of actions from the 2008 Work Programme were carried over to 2009: the treatment of old payment requests received by DG MOVE before the Agency’s autonomy; the creation of the Agency’s website and the improvement of the visibility of the TEN-T programme; the creation of the TEN-T EA Staff Committee and the finalisation of the Implementing Rules for personnel management; the development of the Geographical Information System, statistical tools and innovative financing methods.

The Agency also performed additional tasks: staff assisted DG MOVE to finalise the project selection from the 2009 Calls, for the adoption of the EERP Decisions and by preparing the work programmes for the 2010 calls under the Multi-Annual Programme and the Annual Programme for the Loan Guarantee Instrument and the 2020 European Fund for Energy, Climate Change and Infrastructure. The Agency contributed to the preparation of the methodology for the ‘2010 MAP project portfolio review’.