Between €149 and €214 million are being provided each year between 2010 and 2017. Between €17 and €60 billion were provided between 2010 and 2013. The Federal Government is providing €2.2 billion of the finance for the new line. At the beginning of construction of the new line, on 16 April 1996, the cost of the entire Nuremberg–Erfurt project were calculated to be about DM 8.5 billion. The financial agreement for the new line was signed on 10 November 1997. This also included individual measures for the upgraded line. The construction timetable and financial plan laid down in the financing agreement could no longer be complied with due to reduced budgets as a result of a compromise negotiated in the mediation committee in December 2003. In September 2005 an agreement was reached on the Nuremberg–Fürth section. The financing arrangements do not have any cost ceilings; the Federal Government bears the risk of cost increases. The financial agreements for the section between Nuremberg and Fürth as well as between Ebensfeld and Erfurt are updated annually. The planned share of Deutsche Bahn AG in the overall project is included in the €158.4 million, that is €63.0 million for the new line. Individual financial agreements between the Federal Government and the business sectors of DB Netz, DB Station&Service and DB Energie covered the financing of the project as a whole. As part of the Trans-European Networks, the project benefits from co-finance in part from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). In the 2007-2013 funding period, ERDF funds from the "Operational Program Transport" in the amount of €239.3 million were planned; these were approved on 20 November 2009. In mid-1993 the estimated costs of the approximately 196 kilometre-long new and upgraded line was about DM 7.196 billion. In 1994, DB AG estimated the cost of the 109 kilometre-long new line as DM 4.044 billion (€2.068 billion; 1994 prices). At the start of construction, in April 1996, the costs were calculated as DM 8.3 billion (about €4.2 billion ). The increase in costs was caused by the conversion of costs from real to (inflation-adjusted) nominal values and increased technical requirements. In addition, funds from a stimulatory package in response to the financial crisis of 2007–2008 have been applied to the line. Criticism The construction of the route was criticised for various reasons. Some criticism related to the route, since it was not possible to bundle