Concession Experience in the Road Transportation Sector in Central Europe

In the Republic of Poland, the promotion of new motorways was stimulated by the enactment of the Motorway Act in 1994. However it has taken several years to reach realisation of the first toll motorway. The Act was modified in 1999 in order to favour the developments of public-private partnerships, under the management of the Motorway Agency. Eventually, an operating Concession was agreed as part of the A4 motorway between Krakow and Katowice and the first real concession for construction and realisation of a new motorway was closed in October 2000, for a section of the A2 motorway between Poznan and Konin, on the Berlin-Warsaw axis.