65 Amendments of Bogdan Kazimierz MARCINKIEWICZ related to 2013/0029(COD)
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Member States should also ensure that all functions necessary to the sustainable operations, maintenance, and development of the rail infrastructure will be managed in a consistent manner by the infrastructure manager itself, which does not prevent a Member State from having many managers operating on stand-alone rail lines or sections thereof.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19 a (new)
Recital 19 a (new)
(19a) In the light of the experience acquired through the network of regulatory bodies provided for in Article 57 of Directive 2012/34/EU, the Commission may draw up a legislative proposal strengthening establishing a European regulatory body.
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19 b (new)
Recital 19 b (new)
(19b) The Commission should assess the impact of this Directive on the development of the labour market for railway staff.
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 b (new)
Recital 20 b (new)
(20b) The regulatory body should analyse rail system efficiency from the viewpoint of productive efficiency, namely the ability to provide the same level of output at a lower cost, or a higher level of output at the same cost.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 c (new)
Recital 20 c (new)
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 d (new)
Recital 20 d (new)
(20d) A new open access service should be allowed to access the market unhindered provided that the new service is mainly revenue-generating rather than revenue- abstracting for the rail sector, and provided that the revenue loss for the operator under the relevant public service contract is not substantial. A mainly revenue-generating service should mean a service whose net benefit in terms of new rail sector revenues exceeds any losses of revenues incurred by the operator under the relevant public service contract. New rail sector revenues should be understood as revenues deriving from passenger flows that are either taken from other modes or that constitute entirely new travel flows. When estimating the revenue loss of the operator under the public service contract, the regulatory body should estimate the total decrease in revenue under the public service contract assuming the new open access entry, as compared to a baseline without the open access entry, other things assumed equal. For this assessment, the regulatory body may define a threshold. In addition, total rail passenger volume, e.g. in terms of passenger-kilometres, may also be defined as a criterion in the assessment. The competent authority that awarded the public service contract should compensate the railway undertaking performing the public service contract for the losses of revenue it incurs as a result of a new open access service until the date of expiry of the PSO contract.
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 3
Article 3
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 3 – point 2
Article 3 – point 2
»(2) ‘infrastructure manager’ means any body or firm ensuring, in particular, the development, operation and maintenance of railway infrastructure on a network; development includes network planning, financial and investment planning as well as building and upgrades of the infrastructure; operation of the infrastructure includes all elements of the process of train path allocation, including both the definition and the assessment of availability and the allocation of individual paths, traffic management and infrastructure charging, including determination and collection of the charges; maintenance includes infrastructure renewals and the other asset management activities’;
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 1 – point 1 – point b
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point c – indent 3a (new)
Article 1 – point 1 – point c – indent 3a (new)
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 3 – point 31 – indent 3 a (new)
Article 3 – point 31 – indent 3 a (new)
or - an undertaking consisting of distinct divisions, including an infrastructure manager and one or several divisions providing transport services that do not necessarily have distinct legal personalities;
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2
Article 1 – point 2
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3
Article 1 – point 3
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 a – title
Article 7 a – title
Amendment 257 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 a – paragraph 1
Article 7 a – paragraph 1
Amendment 261 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 a – paragraph 2
Article 7 a – paragraph 2
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Amendment 274 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 a – paragraph 4
Article 7 a – paragraph 4
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 a – paragraph 5
Article 7 a – paragraph 5
Amendment 281 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7b
Article 7b
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7b – title
Article 7b – title
Amendment 289 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 b – paragraph 1
Article 7 b – paragraph 1
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 b – paragraph 2
Article 7 b – paragraph 2
Amendment 306 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 b – paragraph 3
Article 7 b – paragraph 3
Amendment 321 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 b – paragraph 4
Article 7 b – paragraph 4
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 b – paragraph 5
Article 7 b – paragraph 5
Amendment 337 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 b – paragraph 6
Article 7 b – paragraph 6
Amendment 344 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 b – paragraph 7
Article 7 b – paragraph 7
Amendment 351 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 c
Article 7 c
Amendment 356 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7c – Title
Article 7c – Title
Amendment 360 #
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
Amendment 367 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 c – paragraph 2
Article 7 c – paragraph 2
Amendment 372 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7c – paragraph 3
Article 7c – paragraph 3
Amendment 379 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7c – paragraph 4
Article 7c – paragraph 4
Amendment 382 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 c – paragraph 5
Article 7 c – paragraph 5
Amendment 385 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
1. Member States shall ensure that infrastructure managers set up and organise Coordination Committees for each network. Membership of this committee shall be open at least to the infrastructure manager, bodies responsible for essential functions, known applicants in the sense of Article 8(3) and, upon their request, potential applicants, their representative organisations, representatives of users of the rail freight and passenger transport services and, where relevant, regional and local authorities. Member State representatives and the regulatory body concerned shall be invited to the meetings of the Coordination Committee as observers.
Amendment 402 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 d – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 d – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Without prejudice to commercial confidentiality, The Coordination Committee shall have the power to request relevant information from the infrastructure managany of its members on points (a) to (g) in order to be able to carry out these tasks.
Amendment 407 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 d – paragraph 3
Article 7 d – paragraph 3
3. The Coordination Committee shall draw up rules of procedure that include, in particular, rules on participation in and frequency of meetings which shall be at least quarterly. A report of the Coordination Committee's discussions shall be submitted annually to the infrastructure manager, the Member State, and the regulatory body concerned and the Commission with an indication of the respective positions taken by the Committee members.
Amendment 413 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 e – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 e – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 424 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 e – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 e – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 428 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 e – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 e – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Amendment 429 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 7 e – paragraph 2
Article 7 e – paragraph 2
Amendment 436 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4
Article 1 – point 4
Amendment 451 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 6 – point a
Article 1 – point 6 – point a
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may limit the right of access provided for in Article 10(2) to passenger services between a given place of departure and a given destination when one or more public service contracts cover the same route or an alternative route if the exercise of this right would compromise the economic equilibrium of the public service contract or contracts in question. Competent authorities and infrastructure managers shall give advance notice to all interested parties of capacity requests pursuant to Regulation 1370/2007 that may conflict with the rights of access pursuant to Article 10 of this Directive. All passenger services that are not part of a public service contract shall be referred to as open access services. If a competent authority creates a new public service contract, or extends the scope of an existing one, in the sense of using more infrastructure capacity than was previously used, the undertakings that provide existing open access services which may be affected by that decision shall not be subject to any limitations in access rights. These undertakings shall receive advance notice of the decision and, if justified, financial compensation based on a decision of the regulatory body, based on a procedure analogous to the one defined in this article for determining a prejudice to economic equilibrium.
Amendment 460 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 6 – point b
Article 1 – point 6 – point b
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
In order to determine whether the economic equilibrium of a public service contract would be compromised, the relevant regulatory body or bodies referred to in Article 55 shall make an objective economic analysis and base its decision on pre-determined criteria. They shall determine this after a request from any of the following, submitted wi economic equilibrium of the public service contract shall not be deemed to be compromised if the regulatory body predicts that the prospective new service shall be mainly revenue-generating rather thian one month from the information on the intended passenger service referred to in Article 38(4):revenue- abstracting for the rail sector, and that the revenue loss for the set of services under the public service contract, if any, shall not be substantial.
Amendment 466 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 6 – point b
Article 1 – point 6 – point b
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
The relevant regulatory body shall carry out the economic analysis and issue the reasoned decision referred to in this paragraph following a request from the railway undertaking seeking access, provided that the request is submitted not more than a reasonable number of years before the intended start of service. Without prejudice to paragraph 3, the decision of the regulatory body shall be binding on all parties concerned for a reasonable number of years after its notification, or until the expiry date of the public service contract, whichever is sooner. The competent authority that awarded the public service contract shall compensate the railway undertaking performing the public service contract for the losses of revenue it incurs as a result of the new service until the date of expiry of the PSO contract.
Amendment 477 #
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
Amendment 493 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 7
Article 1 – point 7
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 13 a – paragraph 2
Article 13 a – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall require railway undertakings operating passenger services to put in place and coordinate contingency plans to provide assistance to passengers, in the sense of Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 1371/2007,set up and coordinate with respect to major EU routes, national contingency plans to provide assistance to passengers in the event of a major disruption to services.
Amendment 505 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 - point 7b (new)
Article 1 - point 7b (new)
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 31 – paragraph 4
Article 31 – paragraph 4
7b. In Article 31 – paragraph 4 the following subparagraph is added: In such a case, the Member State may decide that the revenue from the scarcity charge shall be used for infrastructure investment projects aiming at relieving capacity constraints.
Amendment 511 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 38 – paragraph 4
Article 38 – paragraph 4
4. Where an applicant intends to request infrastructure capacity with a view to operating a passenger service, it shall inform the infrastructure managers and the regulatory bodies concerned no less thanaccording to deadlines specified by the Member States. The deadlines specified by Member States shall not exceed 18 months before the entry into force of the working timetable to which the request for capacity relates. In order to enable regulatory bodies concerned to assess the potential economic impact on existing public service contracts, regulatory bodies shall ensure that any competent authority that has awarded a rail passenger service on that route defined in a public service contract, any other interested competent authority with the right to limit access under Article 11 and any railway undertaking performing the public service contract on the route of that passenger service is informed without undue delay and at the latest within five days. The regulatory bodies concerned shall not transmit to any third party any commercial data other than the origin, destination and intermediate stops of the service for which capacity is requested.
Amendment 531 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 - point 8 c (new)
Article 1 - point 8 c (new)
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 56 – paragraph 6
Article 56 – paragraph 6
8c. Article 56 – paragraph 6 is replaced by the following: 6. The regulatory body shall ensure that charges set by the infrastructure manager comply with Section 2 of Chapter IV and are non-discriminatory. The regulatory body shall also ensure that charges set by the infrastructure manager, by operators of service facilities, or by railway undertakings for access, including track access, to passenger stations, their buildings and other facilities, including travel information display, are non- discriminatory. In order to ensure that this is achieved, any planned change to the structure or level of the charges referred to in this paragraph shall be communicated to the regulatory body not later than two months before its planned entry into force. The regulatory body may require any reduction or increase in the planned change, its deferral to a later date, or its cancellation, not later than one month before its planned entry into force. Negotiations between applicants and an infrastructure manager concerning the level of infrastructure charges shall only be permitted if these are carried out under the supervision of the regulatory body. The regulatory body shall intervene if negotiations are likely to contravene the requirements of this Chapter.
Amendment 534 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 - point 8 c (new)
Article 1 - point 8 c (new)
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 56 – paragraph 9
Article 56 – paragraph 9
8c. Subparagraph 3 of Article 56 – paragraph 9 is replaced by the following: In the event of an appeal against a refusal to grant infrastructure capacity, or against the terms of an offer of capacity, the regulatory body shall either confirm that no modification of the infrastructure manager's decision is required, or it shall require modification of that decision in accordance with directions specified by the regulatory body, not later than one month after the appeal is received. The infrastructure manager shall comply as soon as is materially feasible, and in any case not later than one month after receiving notification of the request from the regulatory body.
Amendment 541 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 - point 8 d (new)
Article 1 - point 8 d (new)
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 56 – paragraph 10
Article 56 – paragraph 10
Amendment 543 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 - point 8 d (new)
Article 1 - point 8 d (new)
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 57
Article 57
8d. In Article 57the following paragraph 9 a is added: 9a. Where an applicant believes that the decisions of one or more infrastructure managers or bodies in charge of essential functions are hindering the development of cross-border services, the applicant may submit a request for a regulatory opinion directly to the network. This request shall also constitute a request for a decision from the relevant national regulatory body or bodies. The network shall, if appropriate, require relevant information from the infrastructure managers or bodies in charge of essential functions and, in any case, from the relevant national regulatory bodies, in accordance with the procedure described in Article 57(4). The network shall then issue a non-binding opinion, aiming at facilitating rather than hindering the services in question. The opinion shall be communicated to the relevant national regulatory bodies and to the applicant not later than one month after the request is received. The relevant national regulatory bodies shall take the opinion of the network into consideration before taking their decisions, not later than one month after the opinion of the network is received, and shall justify to the applicant in writing any deviation from that opinion.
Amendment 558 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 - point 9 i (new)
Article 1 - point 9 i (new)
Directive 2012/34/EU
Article 63 – paragraph 1
Article 63 – paragraph 1
9i. In Article 63 – paragraph 1 the following subparagraph is added: The Commission shall, no later than 18 months after the entry into force of this Directive, assess its impact on the development of the labour market for railway staff.