Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/2168 of 17 December 2020 on the compliance of the joint proposal submitted by the Member States concerned for the extension of the North Sea-Baltic rail freight corridor with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 913/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning a European rail network for competitive freight (notified under document C(2020) 8919) (Only the Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish texts are authentic)

The letters of intent of 6 December 2019 concerning extensions of the North Sea-Baltic rail freight corridor from Antwerp to the ports of Zeebrugge and Ghent/Terneuzen and from Katowice to the Polish-Ukrainian border at Medyka, sent to the Commission by the ministries responsible for rail transport in Belgium, Czechia, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland, and together proposing the route Wilhelmshaven/Bremerhaven/Hamburg/Amsterdam/Rotterdam/Zeebrugge – Ghent (Terneuzen) – Antwerp – Aachen – Hannover/Berlin – Warsaw – Terespol (Poland-Belarus border)/Kaunas – Riga – Tallinn/Falkenberg – Prague/Wroclaw – Katowice – Medyka (Poland-Ukraine border) as the principal route for the North Sea-Baltic rail freight corridor comply with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 913/2010.

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Czech Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Republic of Poland.