Cooperation between partners is intense

The supervisory board of SGPSO is the main management body, as defined by the ordinance of 2 March 2022 and the Conseil d’Etat decree of 22 April 2022.

The board discusses the main strategic focus of the public entity and also exercises permanent control over its management.

It is made up of representatives of the 24 local authorities and groups of local authorities that signed the GPSO financing plan on 18 February 2022 between the State, local authorities and their groups and SNCF Réseau.

The steering committee is co-managed by the state and the two regions.

SGPSO takes part in a body known as the ‘steering committee,’ provided for in article 1 of the ordinance of 2 March 2022, co-chaired by the prefect of the Occitania region, the chair of the Occitania region and the chair of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, which brings together the legal entities financing the South-West New Line. It gathers stakeholders, in particular the local authorities of SGPSO, SNCF Réseau, SNCF Gares & Connexions, as well as government departments and Europe through the coordinator of the Atlantic Corridor of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

The purpose of this committee is to bring together the State, SGPSO and the local authorities that are funding the New Line, while preserving the ability of the contracting authorities to complete the project within the budgets and timescales agreed by the parties involved. In other words, it is the forum for the governance of the main players in the project, its promoters and funders, as well as its developers, so that it can be brought to fruition.

The board of directors is made up of three members appointed by the supervisory board for five years. It proposes to the supervisory board the general strategy and policy of the institution, prepares the decisions of the supervisory board and ensures their implementation, and defines the organisation and operating rules of the public institution.

Three committees give technical opinions on the operations submitted to the supervisory board for approval: a financial engineering committee; a contracts committee, which deals with matters relating to the award of contracts necessary for the operation and performance of the agency and related transaction agreements; and a new stations committee.

A supervisory committee is made up of the six main local authorities financing the project, namely the regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitania, the metropolises of Bordeaux and Toulouse, and the departments of Haute-Garonne and Landes. Under the leadership of SGPSO, it helps prepare and monitor the decisions of the supervisory board.

The territorial monitoring commitees are local forum for dialogue. SGPSO participates in each of the five committees set up by the prefects of the departments of Haute-Garonne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne and Tarn-et-Garonne.

They will provide an opportunity to bring together elected representatives, socio-professional players and associations to keep them informed of the progress of the GPSO and to continue the consultation process in line with the operational timetable in order to support the finalisation of the project.

They will also be used to monitor and ensure compliance by the contracting authorities with the measures set out in the file of commitments made by the State, as well as to monitor the environmental offsetting measures to be defined in the environmental permit decision for the project.