4 Amendments of Michael CRAMER related to 2013/0029(COD)
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) In order to increase the attractiveness of railway services for passengers, Member States should be in a positionwill have to require railway undertakings operating domestic passenger services to participate in a common information and integratedthrough ticketing scheme for the supply of tickets, through-tickets and reservations. IfWhen such a scheme is established, it should be ensurethere will be a need to ensure that it is interoperable and can be integrated into other national or European schemes, and that it does not create market distortion or discriminate between railway undertakings.
Amendment 271 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 a – paragraph 3
Article 7 a – paragraph 3
3. The infrastructure manager's incomes may not be used in order to finance other legal entities within the vertically integrated undertaking but only in order to finance the business of the infrastructure manager and to pay dividends to the ultimate owner of the vertically integrated company. The infrastructure manager may not grant loans to any other legal entities within the vertically integrated undertaking, and no other legal entity within the vertically integrated undertaking may grant loans to the infrastructure manager. This shall however not prevent an integrated undertaking from transferring surpluses from commercial activities to an area of activity financed through public funds. Any services offered by other legal entities to the infrastructure manager shall be based on contracts and be paid at market prices. The debt attributed to the infrastructure manager shall be clearly separated from the debt attributed to other legal entities within the vertically integrated undertaking, and these debts shall be serviced separately. The accounts of the infrastructure manager and of the other legal entities within the vertically integrated undertaking shall be kept in a way that ensures the fulfilment of these provisions and allows for separate financial circuits for the infrastructure manager and for the other legal entities within the vertically integrated undertaking, in particular with regard to the prohibition on transferring public funds and revenues from the infrastructure to another area of activity.
Amendment 362 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 c – paragraph 1
Article 7 c – paragraph 1
1. Upon request of a Member State or on its own initiative, the Commission shall decide whether infrastructure managers which are part of a vertically integrated undertaking fulfil the requirements of Article 7a and Article 7b and whether the implementation of these requirements is appropriate to ensure a level playing field for all railway undertakings and the absence of distortion of competition in the relevant market, in particular with regard to the prohibition on transferring public funds and revenues from the infrastructure to another area of activity.
Amendment 490 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 7
Article 1 – point 7
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 13 a – paragraph 1
Article 13 a – paragraph 1
1. Without prejudice to Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007 and Directive 2010/40/EU, and at the latest one year after the entry into force of this Directive, Member States mayshall require railway undertakings operating domestic passenger services to participate in a common information and integrated ticketing scheme for the supply of tickets, through- tickets and reservations or decide to give the power to competent authorities to establish such a scheme. IfWhen such a scheme is established, Member States shall ensure that it is interoperable and can be integrated into other national or European schemes, that it does not create market distortion or discriminate between railway undertakings and that it is managed by an independent public or private legal entity or an association of all railway undertakings operating passenger services. Member States shall also ensure that the costs of such a scheme are divided fairly among the participating railway undertakings, on the basis of their respective contributions and the benefits they gain from it.