Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 establishing a single European railway area (recast) Text with EEA relevance
Where more than one railway undertaking licensed in accordance with Article 17, or, in the case of Ireland and Northern Ireland, a railway company so licensed elsewhere, submits an official application to operate competing railway services in, to or from Ireland or Northern Ireland, the continued applicability of this derogation shall be decided upon in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 62(2).
The derogations referred to in paragraph 1 shall not apply where a railway undertaking operating railway services in Ireland or Northern Ireland submits an official application to operate railway services on, to or from the territory of another Member State, with the exceptions of Ireland for railway undertakings operating in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom for railway undertakings operating in Ireland.
Within one year from the receipt of either the decision referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph or notification of the official application referred to in the second subparagraph of this paragraph, the Member State or States concerned (Ireland or the United Kingdom with respect to Northern Ireland) shall put in place legislation to implement the Articles referred to in paragraph 1.
A derogation referred to in paragraph 1 may be renewed for periods not longer than five years. Not later than 12 months before the expiry date of the derogation a Member State availing itself of that derogation may address a request to the Commission for a renewed derogation. Any such request shall be justified. The Commission shall examine such a request and adopt a decision in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 62(2). That procedure shall apply to any decision related to the request.
When adopting its decision, the Commission shall take into account any development in the geopolitical situation and the development of the rail market in, from and to the Member State that requested the renewed derogation.
Article 60
Exercise of the delegation
The power to adopt delegated acts is conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this Article.
The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 20(5), Article 35(3), Article 43(2) and Article 56(13) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years from 15 December 2012. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.
The delegation of powers referred to in Article 20(5), Article 35(3), Article 43(2) and Article 56(13) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.
As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council.
A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 20(5), Article 35(3), Article 43(2) and Article 56(13) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.
Article 61
Measures of application
At the request of a Member State, of a regulatory body or on its own initiative, the Commission shall examine specific measures adopted by national authorities in relation to the application of this Directive, concerning the conditions of access to railway infrastructure and services, the licensing of railway undertakings, infrastructure charging and capacity allocation within 12 months after adoption of those measures. The Commission shall decide in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 62(2) whether the related measure may continue to be applied within four months of receipt of such a request.
Article 62
Committee procedure
The Commission shall be assisted by a committee. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.
Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply. When the committee delivers no opinion on a draft implementing act to be adopted pursuant to Article 10(4), Article 11(4), Article 12(5), Article 13(9) and Article 17(5), Article 31(3) and (5), Article 32(4) and Article 57(8), the Commission shall not adopt the draft implementing act and the third subparagraph of Article 5(4) of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.
Article 63
Report
By 31 December 2024, the Commission shall evaluate the impact of this Directive on the rail sector and shall submit to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions a report on its implementation.
In particular, the report shall evaluate the development of high-speed rail services and assess the existence of discriminatory practices regarding access to high-speed lines. The Commission shall consider whether it is necessary to submit legislative proposals.
By the same date, the Commission shall assess whether discriminatory practices or other types of distortion of competition persist in relation to infrastructure managers which are part of a vertically integrated undertaking. The Commission shall, if appropriate, submit legislative proposals.
In light of the experience acquired through the network of regulatory bodies, the Commission shall, by 16 December 2014, submit to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of Regions a report on cooperation between regulatory bodies. The Commission shall, if appropriate, propose complementary measures to ensure a more integrated regulatory oversight of the European rail market, in particular for international services. To that end, legislative measures shall also be considered, if appropriate.
Article 64
Transposition
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive including as regards compliance by undertakings, operators, applicants, authorities and other entities concerned by 16 June 2015. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.
When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. They shall also include a statement that references in existing laws, regulations and administrative provisions to the Directives repealed by this Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made and how that statement is to be formulated.
Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
The obligations for transposition and implementation of Chapters II and IV of this Directive shall not apply to Cyprus and Malta for as long as no railway system is established within their territory.
Article 65
Repeal
Directives 91/440/EEC, 95/18/EC and 2001/14/EC, as amended by the Directives listed in Annex IX, Part A, are repealed with effect from 17 June 2015, without prejudice to the obligations of the Member States relating to the time limits for transposition into national law of the Directives set out in Part B of Annex IX.
References to the repealed Directives shall be construed as references to this Directive and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex X.
Article 66
Entry into force
This Directive shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 67
Addressees
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
ANNEX I
LIST OF RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE ITEMS
Railway infrastructure consists of the following items, provided they form part of the permanent way, including sidings, but excluding lines situated within railway repair workshops, depots or locomotive sheds, and private branch lines or sidings:
- — Ground area,
- — Track and track bed, in particular embankments, cuttings, drainage channels and trenches, masonry trenches, culverts, lining walls, planting for protecting side slopes, etc.; passenger and goods platforms, including in passenger stations and freight terminals; four-foot way and walkways; enclosure walls, hedges, fencing; fire protection strips; apparatus for heating points; crossings etc.; snow protection screens,
- — Engineering structures: bridges, culverts and other overpasses, tunnels, covered cuttings and other underpasses; retaining walls, structures for protection against avalanches, falling stones, etc.,
- — Level crossings, including appliances to ensure the safety of road traffic,
- — Superstructure, in particular: rails, grooved rails and check rails; sleepers and longitudinal ties, small fittings for the permanent way, ballast including stone chippings and sand; points, crossings, etc.; turntables and traverses (except those reserved exclusively for locomotives),
- — Access way for passengers and goods, including access by road and access for passengers arriving or departing on foot,
- — Safety, signalling and telecommunications installations on the open track, in stations and in marshalling yards, including plant for generating, transforming and distributing electric current for signalling and telecommunications; buildings for such installations or plant; track brakes,
- — Lighting installations for traffic and safety purposes,
- — Plant for transforming and carrying electric power for train haulage: substations, supply cables between substations and contact wires, catenaries and supports; third rail with supports,
- — Buildings used by the infrastructure department, including a proportion of installations for the collection of transport charges.
ANNEX II
SERVICES TO BE SUPPLIED TO THE RAILWAY UNDERTAKINGS
(referred to in Article 13)
- 1.The minimum access package shall comprise:
- (a) handling of requests for railway infrastructure capacity;
- (b) the right to utilise capacity which is granted;
- (c) use of the railway infrastructure, including track points and junctions;
- (d) train control including signalling, regulation, dispatching and the communication and provision of information on train movement;
- (e) use of electrical supply equipment for traction current, where available;
- (f) all other information required to implement or operate the service for which capacity has been granted.
- 2.Access, including track access, shall be given to the following services facilities, when they exist, and to the services supplied in these facilities:
- (a) passenger stations, their buildings and other facilities, including travel information display and suitable location for ticketing services;
- (b) freight terminals;
- (c) marshalling yards and train formation facilities, including shunting facilities;
- (d) storage sidings;
- (e) maintenance facilities, with the exception of heavy maintenance facilities dedicated to high-speed trains or to other types of rolling stock requiring specific facilities;
- (f) other technical facilities, including cleaning and washing facilities;
- (g) maritime and inland port facilities which are linked to rail activities;
- (h) relief facilities;
- (i) refuelling facilities and supply of fuel in these facilities, charges for which shall be shown on the invoices separately.
- 3.Additional services may comprise:
- (a) traction current, charges for which shall be shown on the invoices separately from charges for using the electrical supply equipment, without prejudice to the application of Directive 2009/72/EC;
- (b) pre-heating of passenger trains;
- (c) tailor-made contracts for:
- — control of transport of dangerous goods,
- — assistance in running abnormal trains.
- 4.Ancillary services may comprise:
- (a) access to telecommunication networks;
- (b) provision of supplementary information;
- (c) technical inspection of rolling stock;
- (d) ticketing services in passenger stations;
- (e) heavy maintenance services supplied in maintenance facilities dedicated to high-speed trains or to other types of rolling stock requiring specific facilities.
ANNEX III
FINANCIAL FITNESS
(referred to in Article 20)
The information to be provided by undertakings applying for a licence in accordance with Article 20 covers the following aspects:
- (a) available funds, including the bank balance, pledged overdraft provisions and loans;
- (b) funds and assets available as security;
- (c) working capital;
- (d) relevant costs, including purchase costs of payments to account for vehicles, land, buildings, installations and rolling stock;
- (e) charges on an undertaking's assets;
- (f) taxes and social security contributions.
ANNEX IV
CONTENTS OF THE NETWORK STATEMENT
(referred to in Article 27)
The network statement referred to in Article 27 shall contain the following information:
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- A section setting out the nature of the infrastructure which is available to railway undertakings and the conditions of access to it. The information in this section shall be made consistent, on an annual basis with, or shall refer to, the rail infrastructure registers to be published in accordance with Article 35 of Directive 2008/57/EC.
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- A section on charging principles and tariffs. This shall contain appropriate details of the charging scheme as well as sufficient information on charges as well as other relevant information on access applying to the services listed in Annex II which are provided by only one supplier. It shall detail the methodology, rules and, where applicable, scales used for the application of Articles 31 to 36, as regards both costs and charges. It shall contain information on changes in charges already decided upon or foreseen in the next five years, if available.
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- A section on the principles and criteria for capacity allocation. This shall set out the general capacity characteristics of the infrastructure which is available to railway undertakings and any restrictions relating to its use, including likely capacity requirements for maintenance. It shall also specify the procedures and deadlines which relate to the capacity-allocation process. It shall contain specific criteria which are employed during that process, in particular:
- (a) the procedures according to which applicants may request capacity from the infrastructure manager;
- (b) the requirements governing applicants;
- (c) the schedule for the application and allocation processes and the procedures which shall be followed to request information on the scheduling and the procedures for scheduling planned and unforeseen maintenance work;
- (d) the principles governing the coordination process and the dispute resolution system made available as part of this process;
- (e) the procedures which shall be followed and criteria used where infrastructure is congested;
- (f) details of restrictions on the use of infrastructure;
- (g) conditions by which account is taken of previous levels of utilisation of capacity in determining priorities for the allocation process. It shall detail the measures taken to ensure adequate treatment of freight services, international services and requests subject to the ad hoc procedure. It shall contain a template form for capacity requests. The infrastructure manager shall also publish detailed information about the allocation procedures for international train paths.
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- A section on information relating to the application for a licence referred to in Article 25 of this Directive and rail safety certificates issued in accordance with Directive 2004/49/EC or indicating a website where such information is made available free of charge in electronic format.
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- A section on information about procedures for dispute resolution and appeal relating to matters of access to rail infrastructure and services and to the performance scheme referred to in Article 35.
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- A section on information on access to and charging for service facilities referred to in Annex II. Operators of service facilities which are not controlled by the infrastructure manager shall supply information on charges for gaining access to the facility and for the provision of services, and information on technical access conditions for inclusion in the network statement or shall indicate a website where such information is made available free of charge in electronic format.
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- A model agreement for the conclusion of framework agreements between an infrastructure manager and an applicant in accordance with Article 42.
ANNEX V
BASIC PRINCIPLES AND PARAMETERS OF CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN COMPETENT AUTHORITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGERS
(referred to in Article 30)
The contractual agreement shall specify the provisions of Article 30 and include at least the following elements:
- (1) the scope of the agreement as regards infrastructure and service facilities, structured in accordance with Annex II. It shall cover all aspects of infrastructure management, including maintenance and renewal of the infrastructure already in operation. Where appropriate, construction of new infrastructure may also be covered;
- (2) the structure of payments or funds allocated to the infrastructure services listed in Annex II, to maintenance and renewal and to dealing with existing maintenance and renewal backlogs. Where appropriate, the structure of payments or funds allocated to new infrastructure may be covered;
- (3) user-oriented performance targets, in the form of indicators and quality criteria covering elements such as:
- (a) train performance, such as in terms of line speed and reliability, and customer satisfaction,
- (b) network capacity,
- (c) asset management,
- (d) activity volumes,
- (e) safety levels, and
- (f) environmental protection;
- (4) the amount of possible maintenance backlog and the assets which will be phased out of use and therefore trigger different financial flows;
- (5) the incentives referred to in Article 30(1), with the exception of those incentives implemented through regulatory measures in accordance with Article 30(3);
- (6) minimum reporting obligations for the infrastructure manager in terms of content and frequency of reporting, including information to be published annually;
- (7) the agreed duration of the agreement, which shall be synchronised and consistent with the duration of the infrastructure manager's business plan, concession or licence, where appropriate, and the charging framework and rules set by the State;
- (8) rules for dealing with major disruptions of operations and emergency situations, including contingency plans and early termination of the contractual agreement, and timely information to users;
- (9) remedial measures to be taken if either of the parties is in breach of its contractual obligations, or in exceptional circumstances affecting the availability of public funding; this includes conditions and procedures for renegotiation and early termination.
ANNEX VI
REQUIREMENTS FOR COSTS AND CHARGES RELATED TO RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE
(referred to in Article 32(1) and Article 35)
- 1.The pairs to be considered by infrastructure managers when they define a list of market segments with a view to introducing mark-ups in the charging system according to Article 32(1) include at least the following:
- (a) passenger versus freight services;
- (b) trains carrying dangerous goods versus other freight trains;
- (c) domestic versus international services;
- (d) combined transport versus direct trains;
- (e) urban or regional versus interurban passenger services;
- (f) block trains versus single wagon load trains;
- (g) regular versus occasional train services.
- 2.The performance scheme as referred to in Article 35 shall be based on the following basic principles:
- (a) In order to achieve an agreed level of performance and not to endanger the economic viability of a service, the infrastructure manager shall agree with applicants the main parameters of the performance scheme, in particular the value of delays, the thresholds for payments due under the performance scheme relative both to individual train runs and to all train runs of a railway undertaking in a given period of time;
- (b) The infrastructure manager shall communicate to the railway undertakings the working timetable, on the basis of which delays will be calculated, at least five days before the train run. The infrastructure manager may apply a shorter notice period in case of force majeure or late alterations of the working timetable;
- (c) All delays shall be attributable to one of the following delay classes and sub-classes:
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- Operation/planning management attributable to the infrastructure manager
- 1.1. Timetable compilation
- 1.2. Formation of train
- 1.3. Mistakes in operations procedure
- 1.4. Wrong application of priority rules
- 1.5. Staff
- 1.6. Other causes
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- Infrastructure installations attributable to the infrastructure manager
- 2.1. Signalling installations
- 2.2. Signalling installations at level crossings
- 2.3. Telecommunications installations
- 2.4. Power supply equipment
- 2.5. Track
- 2.6. Structures
- 2.7. Staff
- 2.8. Other causes
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- Civil engineering causes attributable to the infrastructure manager
- 3.1. Planned construction work
- 3.2. Irregularities in execution of construction work
- 3.3. Speed restriction due to defective track
- 3.4. Other causes
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- Causes attributable to other infrastructure managers
- 4.1. Caused by previous infrastructure manager
- 4.2. Caused by next infrastructure manager
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- Commercial causes attributable to the railway undertaking
- 5.1. Exceeding the stop time
- 5.2. Request of the railway undertaking
- 5.3. Loading operations
- 5.4. Loading irregularities
- 5.5. Commercial preparation of train
- 5.6. Staff
- 5.7. Other causes
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- Rolling stock attributable to the railway undertaking
- 6.1. Roster planning/rerostering
- 6.2. Formation of train by railway undertaking
- 6.3. Problems affecting coaches (passenger transport)
- 6.4. Problems affecting wagons (freight transport)
- 6.5. Problems affecting cars, locomotives and rail cars
- 6.6. Staff
- 6.7. Other causes
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- Causes attributable to other railway undertakings
- 7.1. Caused by next railway undertaking
- 7.2. Caused by previous railway undertaking
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- External causes attributable to neither infrastructure manager nor railway undertaking
- 8.1. Strike
- 8.2. Administrative formalities
- 8.3. Outside influence
- 8.4. Effects of weather and natural causes
- 8.5. Delay due to external reasons on the next network
- 8.6. Other causes
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- Secondary causes attributable to neither infrastructure manager nor railway undertaking
- 9.1. Dangerous incidents, accidents and hazards
- 9.2. Track occupation caused by the lateness of the same train
- 9.3. Track occupation caused by the lateness of another train
- 9.4. Turn-around
- 9.5. Connection
- 9.6. Further investigation needed;
- (d) Wherever possible, delays shall be attributed to a single organisation, considering both the responsibility for causing the disruption and the ability to re-establish normal traffic conditions;
- (e) The calculation of payments shall take into account the average delay of train services of similar punctuality requirements;
- (f) The infrastructure manager shall, as soon as possible, communicate to the railway undertakings a calculation of payments due under the performance scheme. This calculation shall encompass all delayed train runs within a period of at most one month;
- (g) Without prejudice to the existing appeal procedures and to the provisions of Article 56, in the case of disputes relating to the performance scheme, a dispute resolution system shall be made available in order to settle such matters promptly. This dispute resolution system shall be impartial towards the parties involved. If this system is applied, a decision shall be reached within a time limit of 10 working days;
- (h) Once a year, the infrastructure manager shall publish the annual average level of performance achieved by the railway undertakings on the basis of the main parameters agreed in the performance scheme.
ANNEX VII
SCHEDULE FOR THE ALLOCATION PROCESS
(referred to in Article 43)
- (1)The working timetable shall be established once per calendar year.
- (2)The change of working timetable shall take place at midnight on the second Saturday in December. Where an adjustment is carried out after the winter, in particular to take account, where appropriate, of changes in regional passenger traffic timetables, it shall take place at midnight on the second Saturday in June and at such other intervals between these dates as are required. Infrastructure managers may agree on different dates and in this case they shall inform the Commission if international traffic may be affected.
- (3)The deadline for receipt of requests for capacity to be incorporated into the working timetable shall be no more than 12 months in advance of the change of the working timetable. Requests received after the deadline shall also be considered by the infrastructure manager.
- (4)No later than 11 months before the change of the working timetable, the infrastructure managers shall ensure that provisional international train paths have been established in cooperation with other relevant infrastructure managers. Infrastructure managers shall ensure that as far as possible these are adhered to during the subsequent processes.
- (5)The infrastructure manager shall prepare and publish a draft working timetable at the latest four months after the deadline referred to in point (3).
- (6)The infrastructure manager shall decide on the requests it receives after the deadline referred to in point (3) in accordance with a process published in the network statement.
- The infrastructure manager may reschedule an allocated train path if it is necessary to ensure the best possible matching of all path requests and if it is approved by the applicant to which the path had been allocated. The infrastructure manager shall update the draft working timetable no later than one month before the change of the working timetable in order to include all train paths allocated after the deadline referred to in point (3).
- (7)In the case of trains crossing from one network to another which arrive with a presumed delay of not more than 10 hours and, from 14 December 2019, 18 hours, the infrastructure manager of the other network shall not consider the train path cancelled or request application for another train path, including if it decides to allocate a different train path, unless the applicant informs the infrastructure manager that the train will not cross to the other network. The infrastructure manager shall communicate to the applicant the updated or new train path without delay, including, if different, the link between that train path number and the train path number of the cancelled train path.
- (8)As regards temporary restrictions of the capacity of railway lines, for reasons such as infrastructure works, including associated speed restrictions, axle load, train length, traction, or structure gauge (‘capacity restrictions’), of a duration of more than seven consecutive days and for which more than 30 % of the estimated traffic volume on a railway line per day is cancelled, re-routed or replaced by other modes of transport, the infrastructure managers concerned shall publish all capacity restrictions and the preliminary results of a consultation with the applicants for a first time at least 24 months, to the extent they are known, and, in an updated form, for a second time at least 12 months before the change of the working timetable concerned.
- (9)The infrastructure managers concerned shall also create a mechanism whereby they jointly discuss those capacity restrictions, if the impact of the capacity restrictions is not limited to one network, with interested applicants, the associations of infrastructure managers referred to in Article 40(1) and the main operators of service facilities concerned when they are published for the first time, unless the infrastructure managers and the applicants agree that such a mechanism is not needed. The joint discussions shall help prepare timetables, including the provision of diversionary routes.
- (10)When publishing capacity restrictions in accordance with point (8) for a first time, the infrastructure manager shall launch a consultation with the applicants and the main operators of services facilities concerned on the capacity restrictions. Where a coordination in accordance with point (11) is required between the first and second publication of capacity restrictions, infrastructure managers shall consult with applicants and the main operators of service facilities concerned a second time between the end of that coordination and the second publication of the capacity restriction.
- (11)Before publishing capacity restrictions in accordance with point (8), if the impact of the capacity restrictions is not limited to one network, the infrastructure managers concerned, including infrastructure managers that might be impacted by the rerouting of trains, shall coordinate between themselves capacity restrictions that could involve a cancellation, re-routing of a train path or a replacement by other modes.
- The coordination before the second publication shall be completed:
- (a) no later than 18 months before the change of the working timetable if more than 50 % of the estimated traffic volume on a railway line per day is cancelled, re-routed or replaced by other modes of transport for a duration of more than 30 consecutive days
- (b) no later than 13 months and 15 days before the change of the working timetable period if more than 30 % of the estimated traffic volume on a railway line per day is cancelled, re-routed or replaced by other modes of transport for a duration of more than seven consecutive days
- (c) no later than 13 months and 15 days before the change of the working timetable period if more than 50 % of the estimated traffic volume on a railway line per day is cancelled, re-routed or replaced by other modes of transport for a duration of seven consecutive days or less.
- The infrastructure managers shall, if necessary, invite the applicants active on the lines concerned and the main operators of service facilities concerned to get involved in that coordination.
- (12)As regards capacity restrictions of a duration of seven consecutive days or less that need not be published in accordance with point (8) and for which more than 10 % of the estimated traffic volume on a railway line per day is cancelled, re-routed or replaced by other modes, that occur during the following timetable period and that the infrastructure manager becomes aware of no later than 6 months and 15 days before the change of the working timetable, the infrastructure manager shall consult the applicants concerned on the envisaged capacity restrictions and communicate the updated capacity restrictions at least four months before the change of the working timetable. The infrastructure manager shall provide details on the offered train paths for passenger trains no later than four months and for freight trains no later than one month before the beginning of the capacity restriction, unless the infrastructure manager and the concerned applicants agree on a shorter lead time.
- (13)Infrastructure managers may decide to apply more stringent thresholds for capacity restrictions based on lower percentages of estimated traffic volumes or shorter durations than indicated in this Annex or to apply criteria in addition to the ones mentioned in this Annex, pursuant to a consultation with applicants and facility operators. They shall publish the thresholds and criteria for clustering capacity restrictions in their network statements under point 3 of Annex IV.
- (14)The infrastructure manager may decide not to apply the periods laid down in points (8) to (12), if the capacity restriction is necessary to re-establish safe train operations, the timing of the restrictions is beyond the control of the infrastructure manager, the application of those periods would be cost ineffective or unnecessarily damaging in respect of asset life or condition, or if all concerned applicants agree. In those cases and in case of any other capacity restrictions that are not subject to consultation in accordance with other provisions of this Annex, the infrastructure manager shall consult the applicants and the main operators of service facilities concerned forthwith.
- (15)The information to be provided by the infrastructure manager when acting in accordance with points (8), (12) or (14) shall include:
- (a) the planned day,
- (b) time of day, and, as soon as it can be set, the hour of the beginning and of the end of the capacity restriction,
- (c) the section of line affected by the restriction, and
- (d) where applicable, the capacity of diversionary lines.
- The infrastructure manager shall publish that information, or a link where it can be found, in its network statement as referred to in point (3) of Annex IV. The infrastructure manager shall keep this information updated.
- (16)As regards the capacity restrictions of a duration of at least 30 consecutive days and affecting more than 50 % of the estimated traffic volume on a railway line, the infrastructure manager shall provide the applicants upon their request during the first round of consultation with a comparison of the conditions to be encountered under at least two alternatives of capacity restrictions. The infrastructure manager shall design those alternatives on the basis of the input provided by the applicants at the time of their requests and jointly with them.
- The comparison shall, for each alternative, include at least:
- (a) the duration of the capacity restriction,
- (b) the expected indicative infrastructure charges due,
- (c) the capacity available on diversionary lines,
- (d) the available alternative routes, and
- (e) the indicative travel times.
- Before making a choice between the alternatives of capacity restrictions, the infrastructure manager shall consult the interested applicants and take into account the impacts of the different alternatives on those applicants and on the users of the services.
- (17)As regards the capacity restrictions of a duration of more than 30 consecutive days and affecting more than 50 % of the estimated traffic volume on a railway line, the infrastructure manager shall establish criteria for which trains of each type of service should be re-routed, taking into account the applicant's commercial and operational constraints, unless those operational constraints result from managerial or organisational decisions of the applicant, and without prejudice to the aim of reducing costs of the infrastructure manager in accordance with Article 30(1). The infrastructure manager shall publish in the network statement those criteria together with a preliminary allocation of the remaining capacity to the different types of train services when it acts in accordance with point (8). After the end of the consultation and without prejudice to the obligations of the infrastructure manager as referred to in point (3) of Annex IV, the infrastructure manager, based on the feed-back it received from the applicants, shall provide the railway undertakings concerned with an indicative break-down by type of service of the remaining capacity.
ANNEX VIII
ACCOUNTING INFORMATION TO BE SUPPLIED TO THE REGULATORY BODY UPON REQUEST
(referred to in Article 56(12))
- 1.Account separation
- (a) separate profit and loss accounts and balance sheets for freight, passenger and infrastructure management activities;
- (b) detailed information on individual sources and uses of public funds and other forms of compensation in a transparent and detailed manner, including a detailed review of the businesses' cash flows in order to determine in what way these public funds and other forms of compensation have been used;
- (c) cost and profit categories making it possible to determine whether cross-subsidies between these different activities occurred, according to the requirements of the regulatory body;
- (d) methodology used to allocate costs between different activities;
- (e) where the regulated firm is part of a group structure, full details of inter-company payments.
- 2.Monitoring of track access charges
- (a) different cost categories, in particular providing sufficient information on marginal/direct costs of the different services or groups of services so that infrastructure charges can be monitored;
- (b) sufficient information to allow monitoring of the individual charges paid for services (or groups of services); if required by the regulatory body, this information shall contain data on volumes of individual services, prices for individual services and total revenues for individual services paid by internal and external customers;
- (c) costs and revenues for individual services (or groups of services) using the relevant cost methodology, as required by the regulatory body, to identify potentially anti-competitive pricing (cross-subsidies, predatory pricing and excessive pricing).
- 3.Indication of financial performance
- (a) a statement of financial performance;
- (b) a summary expenditure statement;
- (c) a maintenance expenditure statement;
- (d) an operating expenditure statement;
- (e) an income statement;
- (f) supporting notes that amplify and explain the statements, where appropriate.
ANNEX IX
PART A
REPEALED DIRECTIVES WITH LIST OF SUCCESSIVE AMENDMENTS
(referred to in Article 65)
| Council Directive 91/440/EEC (OJ L 237, 24.8.1991, p. 25) | |
| Directive 2001/12/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 75, 15.3.2001, p. 1) | |
| Directive 2004/51/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 164, 30.4.2004, p. 164) | |
| Council Directive 2006/103/EC (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 344) | only Point B of the Annex |
| Directive 2007/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 315, 3.12.2007, p. 44) | only Article 1 |
| Council Directive 95/18/EC (OJ L 143, 27.6.1995, p. 70) | |
| Directive 2001/13/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 75, 15.3.2001, p. 26) | |
| Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 164, 30.4.2004, p. 44) | only Article 29 |
| Directive 2001/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 75, 15.3.2001, p. 29) | |
| Commission Decision 2002/844/EC (OJ L 289, 26.10.2002, p. 30) | |
| Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 164, 30.4.2004, p. 44) | only Article 30 |
| Directive 2007/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 315, 3.12.2007, p. 44) | only Article 2 |
PART B
LIST OF TIME LIMITS FOR TRANSPOSITION INTO NATIONAL LAW
(referred to in Article 65)
| Directive | Time limit for transposition |
|---|---|
| 91/440/EEC | 1 January 1993 |
| 95/18/EC | 27 June 1997 |
| 2001/12/EC | 15 March 2003 |
| 2001/13/EC | 15 March 2003 |
| 2001/14/EC | 15 March 2003 |
| 2004/49/EC | 30 April 2006 |
| 2004/51/EC | 31 December 2005 |
| 2006/103/EC | 1 January 2007 |
| 2007/58/EC | 4 June 2009 |
ANNEX X
CORRELATION TABLE
| Directive 91/440/EEC | Directive 95/18/EC | Directive 2001/14/EC | This Directive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article 2(1) | Article 1(1) | Article 1(1), first subparagraph | Article 1(1) |
| Article 1(2) | Article 1(2) | ||
| Article 2(2) | Article 2(1) | ||
| Article 1(2) | Article 2(2) | ||
| Article 1(3) | Article 2(3) | ||
| Article 2(4) to (9) | |||
| Article 2(4) | Article 2(10) | ||
| Article 2(11) | |||
| Article 3 | Article 3(1) to (8) | ||
| Article 3(9) to (13) | |||
| Article 2(b) and (c) | Article 3(14) and (15) | ||
| Article 3(16) and (17) | |||
| Article 2 | Article 3(18) to (28) | ||
| Article 3(29) and (30) | |||
| Article 4 | Article 4 | ||
| Article 5 | Article 5(1) to (3) | ||
| Article 5(4) | |||
| Article 6(1) and (2) | Article 6(1) and (2) | ||
| Article 9(4) | Article 6(3) | ||
| Article 6(1) second subparagraph | Article 6(4) | ||
| Article 6(3) and Annex II | Article 7(1) | ||
| Article 4(2) and Article 14(2) | Article 7(2) | ||
| Article 7(1), (3) and (4) | Article 8(1), (2) and (3) | ||
| Article 6(1) | Article 8(4) | ||
| Article 9(1) and (2) | Article 9(1) and (2) | ||
| Article 10(3) and (3a) | Article 10(1) and (2) | ||
| Article 10(3b) | Article 11(1), (2) and (3) | ||
| Article 11(4) | |||
| Article 10(3c) and (3e) | Article 11(5) and (6) | ||
| Article 10(3f) | Article 12(1) to (4) | ||
| Article 12(5) | |||
| Article 5 | Article 13 | ||
| Article 14 | |||
| Article 10b | Article 15 | ||
| Article 3 | Article 16 | ||
| Article 4(1) to (4) | Article 17(1) to (4) | ||
| Article 5 | Article 18 | ||
| Article 6 | Article 19 | ||
| Article 7(1) | Article 20(1) | ||
| Annex, Part I, point (1) | Article 20(2) | ||
| Article 20(3) | |||
| Article 8 | Article 21 | ||
| Article 9 | Article 22 | ||
| Article 4(5) | Article 23(1) | ||
| Article 10 | Article 23(2) and (3) | ||
| Article 11 | Article 24 | ||
| Article 15 | Article 25 | ||
| Article 1(1), second subparagraph | Article 26 | ||
| Article 3 | Article 27 | ||
| Article 10(5) | Article 28 | ||
| Article 4(1) and (3) to (6) | Article 29 | ||
| Article 6(2) to (5) | Article 30 | ||
| Article 7 | Article 31 | ||
| Article 8 | Article 32 | ||
| Article 9 | Article 33 | ||
| Article 10 | Article 34 | ||
| Article 11 | Article 35 | ||
| Article 12 | Article 36 | ||
| Article 37 | |||
| Article 13 | Article 38 | ||
| Article 14(1) and (3) | Article 39 | ||
| Article 15 | Article 40 | ||
| Article 16 | Article 41 | ||
| Article 17 | Article 42 | ||
| Article 18 | Article 43 | ||
| Article 19 | Article 44 | ||
| Article 20(1), (2) and (3) | Article 45(1), (2) and (3) | ||
| Article 45(4) | |||
| Article 20(4) | Article 45(5) | ||
| Article 21 | Article 46 | ||
| Article 22 | Article 47 | ||
| Article 23 | Article 48 | ||
| Article 24 | Article 49 | ||
| Article 25 | Article 50 | ||
| Article 26 | Article 51 | ||
| Article 27 | Article 52 | ||
| Article 28 | Article 53 | ||
| Article 29 | Article 54 | ||
| Article 30(1) | Article 55 | ||
| Article 30(2) | Article 56(1) | ||
| Article 31 | Article 57 | ||
| Article 12 | Article 58 | ||
| Article 14a | Article 33(1), (2) and (3) | Article 59 | |
| Article 60 | |||
| Article 34(2) | Article 61 | ||
| Article 11a | Article 35(1), (2) and (3) | Article 62 | |
| Article 10(9) | Article 63 | ||
| Article 38 | Article 64 | ||
| Article 65 | |||
| Article 17 | Article 39 | Article 66 | |
| Article 16 | Article 18 | Article 40 | Article 67 |
| Annex I | |||
| Annex II | Annex II | ||
| Annex | Annex III | ||
| Annex I | Annex IV | ||
| Annex V | |||
| Annex VI | |||
| Annex III | Annex VII | ||
| Annex VIII |
[^E0001]: Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings (the EC Merger Regulation) (OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1).
[^E0002]: Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on rail passengers' rights and obligations (OJ L 315, 3.12.2007, p. 14).
[^E0003]: Directive 2010/40/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 July 2010 on the framework for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in the field of road transport and for interfaces with other modes of transport (OJ L 207, 6.8.2010, p. 1).
[^E0004]: OJ L 164, 30.4.2004, p. 1.
[^E0005]: Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/919 of 27 May 2016 on the technical specification for interoperability relating to the ‘control-command and signalling’ subsystems of the rail system in the European Union (OJ L 158, 15.6.2016, p. 1).
[^E0006]: Commission Decision 2008/386/EC of 23 April 2008 modifying Annex A to Decision 2006/679/EC concerning the technical specification for interoperability relating to the control-command and signalling subsystem of the trans-European conventional rail system and Annex A to Decision 2006/860/EC concerning the technical specification for interoperability relating to the control-command and signalling subsystem of the trans-European high-speed rail system (OJ L 136, 24.5.2008, p. 11).
[^E0007]: OJ L 276, 20.10.2010, p. 22.
[^E0008]: OJ L 1, 4.1.2003, p. 1.
Editorial note: The title of Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 has been adjusted to take account of the renumbering of the articles of the Treaty establishing the European Community, in accordance with Article 5 of the Treaty of Lisbon; the original reference was: Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty.
[^E0009]: OJ L 164, 30.4.2004, p. 44.
[^E0010]: OJ L 191, 18.7.2008, p. 1.
[^E0011]: OJ L 281, 23.11.1995, p. 31.
[^E0012]: OJ L 8, 12.1.2001, p. 1.
[^E0013]: OJ L 134, 30.4.2004, p. 1.
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