MEPs at the Transport Committee amended in a vote the map and guidelines for developing the Transeuropean Transport Networks (TEN-T) in 2014-2020. MEPs highlighted that TEN-T funding should help primarily to build or upgrade cross-border sections and missing links so as to remove remaining bottlenecks in the core network by 2030.

Transport Committee in the European Parliament stressed that mature national infrastructure projects in the core network will have to compete for funding from the new "Connecting Europe facility" (CEF). They amended the map and guidelines for developing the Transeuropean Transport Networks (TEN-T) in 2014-2020. Recently, business leaders and policy-makers strongly supported the Connecting Europe Facility as proposed by the European Commission.

After adding a few qualifying infrastructure projects to the core network, the Transport Committee approved the map of ten corridors, initially drafted by the Commission together with member states. MEPs highlighted that each corridor must be overseen by an EU coordinator, and all private, national, regional or local partners should be involved at an early planning stage to avoid future construction delays.

MEPs also stressed that TEN-T funding should help primarily to build or upgrade cross-border sections and missing links so as to remove remaining bottlenecks in the core network by 2030. They added that the new instrument should also link remote or insular regions into the EU network and help create modern, multimodal nodes and plate-forms in airports, inland and maritime ports.