Single European Railway Area Directive
Articles
Chapter I GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter II DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNION RAILWAYS
Section 1 Management independence
- Article 4 — Independence of railway undertakings and infrastructure managers
- Article 5 — Management of the railway undertakings according to commercial principles
Section 2 Separation of infrastructure management and transport operations and of different types of transport operations
- Article 6 — Separation of accounts
- Article 7 — Independence of essential functions of an infrastructure manager
Section 3 Improvement of the financial situation
Section 4 Access to railway infrastructure and services
- Article 10 — Conditions of access to railway infrastructure
- Article 11 — Limitation of the right of access and of the right to pick up and set down passengers
- Article 12 — Levy on railway undertakings providing passenger services
- Article 13 — Conditions of access to services
Section 5 Cross-border agreements
Section 6 Monitoring tasks of the Commission
Chapter III LICENSING OF RAILWAY UNDERTAKINGS
Section 1 Licensing authority
Section 2 Conditions for obtaining a licence
- Article 17 — General requirements
- Article 18 — Conditions for obtaining a licence
- Article 19 — Requirements relating to good repute
- Article 20 — Requirements relating to financial fitness
- Article 21 — Requirements relating to professional competence
- Article 22 — Requirements relating to cover for civil liability
Section 3 Validity of the licence
- Article 23 — Spatial and temporal validity
- Article 24 — Temporary licence, approval, suspension and revocation
- Article 25 — Procedure for granting licences
Chapter IV LEVYING OF CHARGES FOR THE USE OF RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE AND ALLOCATION OF RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE CAPACITY
Section 1 General principles
- Article 26 — Effective use of infrastructure capacity
- Article 27 — Network statement
- Article 28 — Agreements between railway undertakings and infrastructure managers
Section 2 Infrastructure and services charges
- Article 29 — Establishing, determining and collecting charges
- Article 30 — Infrastructure cost and accounts
- Article 31 — Principles of charging
- Article 32 — Exceptions to charging principles
- Article 33 — Discounts
- Article 34 — Compensation schemes for unpaid environmental, accident and infrastructure costs
- Article 35 — Performance scheme
- Article 36 — Reservation charges
- Article 37 — Cooperation in relation to charging systems on more than one network
Section 3 Allocation of infrastructure capacity
- Article 38 — Capacity rights
- Article 39 — Capacity allocation
- Article 40 — Cooperation in the allocation of infrastructure capacity on more than one network
- Article 41 — Applicants
- Article 42 — Framework agreements
- Article 43 — Schedule for the allocation process
- Article 44 — Applications
- Article 45 — Scheduling
- Article 46 — Coordination process
- Article 47 — Congested infrastructure
- Article 48 — Ad hoc requests
- Article 49 — Specialised infrastructure
- Article 50 — Capacity analysis
- Article 51 — Capacity-enhancement plan
- Article 52 — Use of train paths
- Article 53 — Infrastructure capacity for maintenance work
- Article 54 — Special measures to be taken in the event of disturbance
Section 4 Regulatory body
- Article 55 — Regulatory body
- Article 56 — Functions of the regulatory body
- Article 57 — Cooperation between regulatory bodies