A €7.5 billion financial commitment to fund the new 2007-2013 CPER, compared with €4.7 billion for 2000-2006
Partnerships have been created between the State and regional authorities through the setting up of 2007-2013 State/Region Strategic Plans (CPER), which include a railway component. The aim of the CPER is to stimulate local economies by focussing on three areas: regional competitiveness, sustainable development and social unity.
State/Region Strategic Plans
An innovating partnership
Thanks to the State/Region Strategic Plans (CPER), each regional authority now benefits from a new partnership with the State. Signed for the 6-year period from 2007-2013, the CPER replace the previous Strategic Plans which ran from 2000 to 2006. The purpose of the CPER is to stimulate local economies from three angles:
Regional competitiveness,
Sustainable development,
Social unity.
Economic levers
The CPER set forth the new privileges of the Regions in terms of railway activity, conferring upon them the title of “transport organisation authorities”. The stake for each regional authority is to convert its CPER into a lever for local growth, aiming in particular at a significant increase in investment resources allocated to the railway network.
In each region, the railway-related aspects of the CPER involve the three partners, namely the State, the Region and Réseau Ferré de France with its 12 regional divisions, which have been especially reinforced in preparation for the 2007-2013 plan.
Modernising the network together
The CPER give the Regions the responsibility of extending the network, in particular through laying high speed lines. However, it also requires them to help modernise the lines and equipment along the network. This very major maintenance work, also called “renewal”, is in response to the wishes of regional authorities to renovate their network.
Contracting trust
By signing the 2007-2013 CPERs, twenty-one regions have renewed their trust in Réseau Ferré as project leader for managing their regional construction sites. This quality collaborative relationship was built up during the previous Strategic Plans. Between 2000 and 2006, the Regions hired railway specialists in order to form qualified teams able to supervise the railway projects.
Today, representatives of Réseau Ferré de France and of the Regions have formed a good working relationship and are working side by side to improve the local railway landscape. This trust leads to an even greater increase in the quality of services provided.
Yves Jouanique, Regional Director of Réseau Ferré de France in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.
« In Nord-Pas-de-Calais, our Regional Division is collaborating with a regional council that is especially involved in railway issues. Our partnership is based on regional railway conferences that bring together the Region, Réseau Ferré de France and SNCF, as well as general advisors. I sit on the 2007-2013 CPER steering committee, and two of our major goals are improving railway service to ports, and extending the high speed connections towards the city of Lille with the development of station traffic. »
« In Nord-Pas-de-Calais, our Regional Division is collaborating with a regional council that is especially involved in railway issues. Our partnership is based on regional railway conferences that bring together the Region, Réseau Ferré de France and SNCF, as well as general advisors. I sit on the 2007-2013 CPER steering committee, and two of our major goals are improving railway service to ports, and extending the high speed connections towards the city of Lille with the development of station traffic. »
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