7 Amendments of Miltiadis KYRKOS related to 2017/0237(COD)
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) To maintain a high level of consumer protection in rail transport, Member States should be required to designate national enforcement bodies to monitor closely and enforce this Regulation at national level. Those bodies should be able to take a variety of enforcement measures. Passengers should be able to complain to those bodies about alleged infringements of the Regulation. To ensure the satisfactory handling of such complaints, the bodies should also cooperate with each other. Enforcement bodies shall each year publish reports on their websites detailing the number and type of complaints that they have received, detailing the outcome of their enforcement actions. In addition, these reports shall be made available on the website of the European Union Agency for Railways.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
Amendment 281 #
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. The European Commission should closely monitor market developments on through-tickets and present a report to the European Parliament and the Council, accompanied if necessary by legislative proposals, by 31 December 2022, in line with article 13a of Directive (EU) 2016/2370 1a. _________________ 1aDirective (EU) 2016/2370 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2016 amending Directive 2012/34/EU as regards the opening of the market for domestic passenger transport services by rail and the governance of the railway infrastructure, OJ L 352, 23.12.2016. Directive (EU) 2016/2370 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2016 amending Directive 2012/34/EU as regards the opening of the market for domestic passenger transport services by rail and the governance of the railway infrastructure, OJ L 352, 23.12.2016.
Amendment 338 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6
Article 10 – paragraph 6
6. Where a passenger receives separate tickets for a single journey comprising successive railway services operated by one or more railway undertakings, his rights to information, assistance, care and compensation shall be equivalent to those under a through-ticket and cover the whole journey from the departure to the final destination, unless the passenger is explicitly informed otherwise in writing. Such information shall in particular state that when the passenger misses a connection, he or she would not be entitled to assistance or compensation based on the total length of the journey. The burden of proof that the information was provided shall lie with the railway undertaking, its agent, tour operator or ticket vendorentity which sold the tickets.
Amendment 458 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. In case of a missed connection due to the delay or cancellation of a train on an earlier leg of the journey the passenger should be allowed to take the next service enabling them to reach their destination station in the most convenient reasonable manner, subject to the journey continuation agreement of the carriers involved;
Amendment 593 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 2
Article 32 – paragraph 2
2. The national enforcement bodies shall publish statistics on their activityeach year publish reports with statistics on their websites detailing the number and type of complaints that they have received, detailing the outcome of their enforcement actions, including onthe sanctions applied, every year, at the latest at the end of April of the following calendar yearthat they have applied. This shall be done for each year by no later than the first day of April of the succeeding year. In addition, these reports shall be made available on the website of the European Union Agency for Railways.