The Community shall promote gas and electricity infrastructure projects having the highest Community added value and contributing to the following objectives:

• Security and diversification of sources of energy, routes and supplies.
• The optimisation of the capacity of the energy network and the integration of the internal energy market, in particular concerning cross-border sections.
• The development of the network to strengthen economic and social cohesion by reducing the isolation of the least favoured regions or islands of the Community.
• The connection and integration of renewable energy resources.
• The safety, reliability and interoperability of interconnected energy networks, including the ability to use multidirectional gas flows where necessary.

Projects in the following areas will be funded:

• Gas interconnectors.
• Electricity interconnectors.
• Projects in small islands.

The Community provisional funding available for the programme is:

• 2.365,00 Million EUR (Orientation of the budget)