Browsing Category railway
Short-distance rail passenger transport. The Court of Justice rules on establishing, determining and collecting the infrastructure and services charges
Directive 2012/34/EU precludes a national legislation requiring the railway infrastructure manager to calculate the amount of the charges applicable in the sector of short-distance rail passenger transport services by means of a mathematical formula consisting of multiplying the amount of the average charges levied during a reference period by a fixed annual rate of increase laid down by law
The Court of Justice rules on the applicability of Regulation 1370/2007 to a mixed public service contract for multimodal public passenger transport services
Regulation 1370/2007 does not apply to a mixed public service contract for multimodal public passenger transport services, comprising transport by tramway, funicular railway and cableway, even in a context where track-based modes of transport account for the majority of the transport in respect of which management has been awarded
Single European railway area. The Court of Justice rules on the national legislation providing for priority rules linked to the intensity of the use of the infrastructure
Article 47 of Directive 2012/34 precludes a national legislation which, for the purpose of allocating infrastructure capacity in the event of congested infrastructure, provides for the application of a priority criterion based on the planned use of that capacity, unless that criterion has safeguards to ensure that it is not applied to the detriment of new entrants