Activities of Pascal DURAND related to 2017/0237(COD)
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Amendments (36)
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Urban, and suburban and regional rail passenger services are different in character from long-distance services. Member States should therefore be allowed to exempt urban, and suburban and regional rail passenger services which are not cross- border services within the Union from certain provisions on passengers' rights.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Users’ rights to rail services include the receipt of information regarding the service both before and during the journey. Whenever possible, rRailway undertakings and ticket vendors should provide this information in advance and as soon as possiblin real-time. That information should be provided in accessible formats for persons with disabilities or persons with reduced mobility.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The increasing popularity of cycling across the Union has implications for overall mobility and tourism. An increase in the use of both railways and cycling in the modal split reduces the environmental impact of transport. Therefore, railway undertakings should facilitate the combination of cycling and train journeys as much as possible, in particular by allowing. In particular by providing mandatory bicycle stands for the carriage of assembled bicycles on board trainof all kinds of passenger trains, including on high- speed, long-distance and cross-border journeys.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Railway undertakings should facilitate the transfer of rail passengers from one operator to another by the provision of through-tickets, whenever possible.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In cooperation with infrastructure managers and railway undertakings, station managers should prepare and make publicly available contingency plans to minimise the impact of major disruptions by providing stranded passengers with adequate information and care.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) urban, and suburban and regional rail passenger services as referred to in Directive 2012/34/EU, except cross-border services within the Union;
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 19 a (new)
(19 a) ‘application programming interface’ within the meaning of this Regulation means an electronic interface for the retrieval of information on schedules and timetables, intermodal connections, including real-time information of possible delays, available seats, applicable fares, mandatory reservations and special conditions, the accessibility of transport services, that also allows purchasing tickets, through- tickets, and reservations.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Without prejudice to social tariffs, railway undertakings or ticket vendors shall offer contract conditions and tariffs to the general public without direct or indirect discrimination on the basis of the final custompassenger’s nationality or residence, or the place of establishment of the railway undertaking or ticket vendor within the Union.
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Passengers shall be entitled to take bicycles on board the train, whethere appropriate for a reasonable fee. They shall keep their bicycles under supervision during the journey and ensure that no inconvenience or damage is caused to other passengers, mobility equipment, luggagssembled or not, free of charge on board the train, including on high-speed, long-distance and cross- border trains. All trains shall be equipped with a well-indicated, dedicated space for rail operations. The carriage of bicycles may be refused or restricted for safety or operational reasons, provided that rthe carriage of at least 8 assembled bicycles. Railway undertakings, ticket vendors, tour operators and, where appropriate, station managers shall inform passengers of the conditions for such a refusal or restrictionbicycle carriage on all services in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 454/2011.
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. Railway undertakings and ticket vendors offering transport contracts on behalf of one or more railway undertakings shall provide the passenger, upon request, with at least the information set out in Annex II, Part I in relation to the journeys for which a transport contract is offered by the railway undertaking concerned. Ticket vendors offering transport contracts on their own account, and tour operators, shall provide this information where available.
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. The information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be provided in the most appropriate format including by using up-to-date communication technologies . Particular attention shall be paid to ensuring that tusing easily-accessible, commonly used and real-time up-to-date communication technologies, including non-proprietary technologies . This information is shall be accessible to persons with disabilities in accordance with the accessibility requirements laid down in Directive XXX and Regulation 454/2011 .
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4
Article 9 – paragraph 4
4. Station managers and infrastructure managers shall make real-time data relating to trains, including those operated by other railway undertakings available to railway undertakings and ticket vendors, in a non- discriminatory manner. They shall communicate any delays or changes that may occur to passengers in real-time.
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Rail travel publicity, booking information as well as tickets shall mention the data on emissions as well as the energy consumption and source of a train journey.
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Railway undertakings and ticket vendors shall offer tickets and, where available, through- tickets and reservations. They shall make all possible efforts to offer through-tickets, including for journeys across borders and with more than one railway undertaking. Booking these tickets shall be accessible and non- discriminatory, including for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Without prejudice to paragraphs 3 and 4, railway undertakings and ticket vendors shall distribute tickets to passengers via at least onetwo of the following points of sale:
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. Railway undertakings shall offer the possibility to obtain tickets for the respective service on board the train, unless this is limited or denied on grounds relating to security or antifraud policy or compulsory train reservation or reasonable commercial grounds.
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Where there is no ticket office or fully-accessible ticketing machine in the station of departure, passengers shall be informed at the station:
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 5
Article 10 – paragraph 5
5. Where there is no ticket office or accessible ticketing machine in the station of departure, persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobilityall passengers shall be permitted to buy tickets on board the train at no extra cost.
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6
Article 10 – paragraph 6
Amendment 208 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a Application Programming Interfaces to Travel Information and Reservation Systems 1. Railway undertakings shall publicly provide non-discriminatory access to all travel information as referred to in Article 9 through application programming interfaces. 2. Railway undertakings shall allow tour operators and ticket vendors to issue tickets, through-tickets, and reservations, as well as provide them with all necessary data or information to the end that they can successfully conclude a complete transport contract to issue tickets, including through-tickets, and reservations, through application programming interfaces, on a non- discriminatory basis. Such data or information include but are not restricted to schedules and timetables, intermodal connections, available seats, applicable fares, mandatory reservations and special conditions. 3. Railway undertakings shall ensure that the technical specifications of the application programming interfaces are well-documented, and openly accessible at no charge. They shall ensure that the dedicated communication interfaces make use of open standards, commonly used protocols, and machine-readable formats. Where no standards, protocols, or formats exist, railway undertakings shall make use of open documentation, development, and standardisation processes in their creation and make the standards, protocols, or formats, as well as the documentation accessible free of charge. 4. Railway undertakings shall ensure that, except for emergency situations, any change to the technical specification of their application programming interfaces is made available to tour operators and ticket vendors in advance as soon as possible and no less than 3 months before a change is implemented. Railway undertakings shall document emergency situations and make the documentation available to competent authorities on request. 5. Railway undertakings shall ensure that access to the application programming interfaces is provided in anon- discriminatory way, at the same level of availability and performance, including support, access to all documentation, standards, protocols, and formats. Tour operators and ticket vendors shall not be disadvantaged when compared with the railway undertakings themselves. 6. Application programming interfaces shall be established within 1 year after the entry into force of this Regulation. 7. Without prejudice to paragraphs 1-6 of this Article, railway undertakings shall not be permitted to establish technical measures that prevent or disadvantage parties from retrieving information from publicly available sources other than the application programming interfaces, such as their websites.
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 3
Article 16 – paragraph 3
3. Re-routing transport service providers shall pay particular attention to providingrovide to persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility with a comparable level of accessibility to the alternative service.
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) 25 % of the ticket price for a delay of 630 to 1159 minutes,
Amendment 221 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) 50 % of the ticket price for a delay of 120 minutes or more.60 to 119 minutes;
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) 100% of the ticket price for a delay of 120 minutes or more.
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b b (new)
(bb) Holders of a seasonal ticket or reduction pass shall receive a compensation as mentioned under points (a)and (b) and based on the normal price of a ticket.
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 2
2. Paragraph 1 also applies to passengers who hold a travel pass or season ticket. If they encounter recurrent delays or cancellations during the period of validity of the travel pass or season ticket, they may request adequate compensation in accordance with the railway undertaking’s compensation arrangements. These arrangements shall state the criteria for determining delay and for the calculation of the compensation. Where delays of less than 630 minutes occur repeatedly during the period of validity of the travel pass or season ticket, the delays shall be counted cumulatively and passengers shall be compensated in accordance with the railway undertaking’s compensation arrangements.
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 5
Article 17 – paragraph 5
5. The compensation of the ticket price shall be paid within one month after the submission of the request for compensation. The compensation may be paid in vouchers and/or other services if the terms are flexible (in particular regarding the validity period and destination). The compensation shall be paid in money at the request of the passenger. within the same payment system as the ticket was bought at the request of the passenger. By no means shall the passenger be discouraged from requesting compensation.
Amendment 239 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 7
Article 17 – paragraph 7
7. The passenger shall not have any right to compensation if he is informed of a delay before he buys a ticket, or if a delay due to continuation on a different service or re-routing remains below 630 minutes.
Amendment 243 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 8
Article 17 – paragraph 8
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 6
Article 18 – paragraph 6
6. In addition to the obligations on railway undertakings pursuant to Article 13a(3) of Directive 2012/34/EU, the station manager of a railway station handling at least 105 000 passengers per day on average over a year shall ensure that the operations of the station, the railway undertakings and the infrastructure manager are coordinated through a proper contingency plan in order to prepare for the possibility of major disruption and long delays leading to a considerable number of passengers being stranded in the station. The plan shall pay particular attention to the needs of persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility; it shall ensure that stranded passengers are provided with adequate assistance and information, including in accessible formats in accordance with the accessibility requirements laid down in Directive XXX. Upon request, the station manager shall make the plan, and any amendments to it, available to the national enforcement body or to any other body designated by a Member StatThe plan shall also include requirements for the accessibility of alert and information systems. The station manager shall make the plan, and any amendments to it, publicly available. Station managers of railway stations handling fewer than 105 000 passengers per day on average over a year shall make all reasonable efforts to coordinate station users and to assist and inform stranded passengers in such situations.
Amendment 271 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1
Article 20 – paragraph 1
1. Railway undertakings and station managers shall, with the active involvement of representative organiszations of persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility, establish, or shall have in place, non- discriminatory access rulerules for barrier-free and independent access for the transport of persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility including their personal assistants. The rules shall allow the passenger to be accompanied by an assistance dog in accordance with any relevant national rules. service animal or an accompanying person, both free of charge, in accordance with any relevant national rules; they shall ensure that rail transport for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility is immediate and spontaneous wherever possible.
Amendment 336 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 32 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The national enforcement bodies, in collaboration with organisations representative of persons with disabilities and with reduced mobility, shall conduct regular audits of the assistance services provided in accordance with this Regulation and publish the results in accessible and commonly used formats.
Amendment 341 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The body shall acknowledge receipt of the complaint within two weeks of receiving it. The complaint-handling procedure shall take a maximum of three months. For complex cases, the body may, at its discretion, extend this period to six months. In such a case, it shall inform the passenger of the reasons for the extension and of the expected time needed to conclude the procedure. Only cases that involve legal proceedings may take longer than sixthree months. Where the body is also an alternative dispute resolution body within the meaning of Directive 2013/11/EU, the time limits laid down in that Directive shall prevail.
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 a (new)
Article 33 a (new)
Article 33a Independent conciliation bodies The Member States shall install well- equipped independent conciliation bodies that will be easily accessible and affordable for passengers in case of conflict with rail undertakings, tour operators and ticket vendors on the enforcement of their rights.