📋 Tender Overview
Description
The purpose of this new operation is to increase the Bank's participation in the financing of line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express. This project was approved in 2014 (operation 2013-0613) and benefited from a first increase from the Bank (approved in 2017 - operation 2017-0236). It concerns the construction of a 33 km high-capacity automatic metro line between Pont de Sèvres and Noisy-Champs with 16 stations and two maintenance sites.
Objectives
The project is part of the construction of the infrastructures of the Greater Paris public transport network, which aims to quickly connect Paris and the strategic centers of the metropolis, the airports, the main urban, scientific, technological and economic centers. , sporting, cultural, while opening up certain territories. The Red line 15 south section serves 22 municipalities located in the departments of Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Seine-et-Marne. It will promote modal shift by offering an alternative to the car.
Comments
This is the third operation in connection with the GRAND PARIS EXPRESS - TRONCON SUD LIGNE 15 project, which is already financed by the Bank.
Sector(s)
Transport - Transportation and storage
Proposed EIB finance (Approximate amount)
not disclosed
Total cost (Approximate amount)
not disclosed
Environmental aspects
The project falls under Annex II of Directive 2011/92/EU. In accordance with French law, the project has undergone an environmental assessment as part of the declaration of public utility procedure. The project was declared of public utility on December 24, 2014. The application file for authorization under the law on water, including the update of the global impact study for line 15 South, was submitted to the CGEDD environmental authority, which issued its opinion on September 23, 2015. The authorization was issued on April 1, 2016 by inter-prefectural decree. In addition, a request for derogation from the ban on the destruction of protected species has been submitted for certain sites.
Procurement
The Bank will require that the contracts for the implementation of the project have been/will be awarded in accordance with the applicable European legislation (Directive 2004/17/EC or 2014/25/EU and Directive 2007/66/EC) and the contract notices published according to regulatory thresholds.
Status : Under appraisal - 30/05/2022
