Trans-European road network

The Trans-European road network (TERN) was defined by Council Decision 93/629/EEC^[1] of 29 October 1993, and is a project to improve the internal road infrastructure of the European Union (EU). The TERN project is one of several Trans-European Transport Networks.

Decision 93/629/EEC expired on 30 June 1995 so it was further expanded by the Decision No 1692/96/EC^[2] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 on Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network, which added definition not only to the proposed road network, but to other Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), as they came to be called.^{[citation needed]}

This Decision is no longer in force either since it was replaced by Decision No 661/2010/EU^[3] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network.^{[citation needed]}