Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 provides for the possibility to add indicative maps of the trans-European transport network extended to specific neighbouring countries based on high-level agreements on transport infrastructure networks between the Union and the neighbouring countries concerned.

A high-level agreement between the Union, Russia and Belarus has been reached in the framework of the Northern Dimension Partnership on Transport and Logistics (NDPTL) on 21 November 2012. A high level agreement between the Union and Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan has been reached in the framework of the Eastern Partnership on 9 October 2013.

Adding indicative maps of the transport networks, connected to the networks defined in Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013, would allow to better target the Union cooperation with the third countries in question.

The high-level agreements with the neighbouring countries concern the lines of the railway and road networks, as well as the ports, airports and rail-road terminals. The status of the railways and roads in terms of completion of the infrastructure was not part of the agreements. Therefore, the railways and roads were presented in the context of the high-level agreements as ‘completed’,