1 Amendments of Jörg LEICHTFRIED related to 2011/0302(COD)
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
(13) "(12) "transport bottleneck" means a physical and/or functional barrier that leads to a system break affecting the continuity of long-distance flows. Such a barrier can be absorbed by new infrastructure such as bridges or tunnels that address problems as for example gradients, curve radii, gauge. The need to upgrade existing infrastructure shall not be considered as a bottleneck and which can be surmounted by extending or modernising existing infrastructure and/or by creating new infrastructure;