12 Amendments of Jeanine HENNIS-PLASSCHAERT related to 2008/0247(COD)
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) In view of the different programming schedules for timetables for the different types of traffic, it should be ensured that the requests for infrastructure capacity for freight traffic are not unduly restricted by requests for passenger transport, particularly in regard to their respective socio-economic values. Fees for using the infrastructure should vary according to the quality and reliability of the train path allocated.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) To guarantee the development of competition between suppliers of rail freight services in the freight corridor, it seems desirable to authorise applicants other than railway undertakings or their groupings should be able to request infrastructure capacity.
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. The Member States affected by a freight corridor shall cooperate to ensure the development of the freight corridor in accordance with its implementation plan. They shall define the general objectives for the freight corridor and ensure that the implementation plan is in line with these objectives. The Member States concerned shall set up an executive board for each corridor with that aim and shall authorise the corridor implementation plan by the governance body and supervise its execution. The individual members of the executive board shall be mandated by the competent Ministers.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. Applicants for the use of the freight corridor shall be consulted by the governance body before the implementation plan is approved and when it is updated. In the event of a disagreement between the governance body and the applicants, the latter may contact the Commission, which shall consultcase of disagreement the latter may contact the executive board or the regulatory bodies of the corridor to reach a solution. The executive board shall inform the committee referred to in Article 18(1), in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(2), on this matter on the conflicts and solutions reached.
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. The governance body shall put in place a one-stop shop for requests for train paths for freight trains crossing at least one border along the freight corridor. Individual infrastructure managers of a corridor may be assigned to function as the front office of the one-stop shop for the applicants requesting train paths.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. The executive board, or where appropriate the Ministers for a corridor, having received a proposal from the governance body shall define and periodically update the standard categories of freight traffic, which shall be valid in the whole of the corridor. The governance body shall define the standard categories of freight traffic, which shall be valid in the whole of the freight corridor. At least one of these categories (hereinafter referred to as "priority freight") shall include goods whose transportation is very time-sensitive and which therefore require an efficient transport time and guaranteed punctuality.
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. Notwithstanding Article 20(2) of Directive 2001/14/EC, the infrastructure managers of the freightThe executive board of a corridor shall publish at least every three years, starting in the year following the decision to create a corridor ashall resferve the capacity needed for priority freight traffic for the coming financial year, prior to the annual exercise to define the working timetablered in Article 3, a coordination plan with the aim of facilitating international rail freight demand on the available capacity for the corridor in general and in particular for priority freight. This plan shall be based on the market study from the governance body as referred to in Article 18 of Directive 2001/14/EC and using as a basis the freight traffic observed and the market study defined in Article 5(1). 5(3), shall contain an analysis till what extend the market demand can be facilitated taking into account the socio-economic benefits of the different types of traffic (such as passenger/freight) and shall list implementation measures. The implementation measures may provide for regulatory measures, incentives and other measures to encourage optimal use of available capacity.
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. The infrastructure managers shall keep a reserve of capacity within the final working timetable to allow them to respond quickly and appropriately to ad hoc requests for capacity as referred to in Article 23 of Directive 2001/14/EC. This capacity must be sufficient to allow requests for train paths to be met while guaranteeing a sufficient level of quality for the allocated train path in terms of journey times on the train path and timetables adapted to freight traffic.
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 4
Article 12 – paragraph 4
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. The rules of priority referred to in paragraph 1 above must at least provide that the train path allocated to a priority freight train complying with the initial provisions for its train path may neither be reallocated to another train, nor modified, except where the initial holder of the train path agrees to reallocation to another train or modification of the train pathshall be respected as far as possible.
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 1
Article 16 – paragraph 1
1. The infrastructure managers for the freight corridor shall ensure consistency between the performance schemes along the freight corridor, as defined in Article 11 of Directive 2001/14/EC. This shall include, where applicable, incentives to retrofit freight wagons for noise. This shall not limit Member States which have corridors to introducing more progressive incentive schemes for retrofitting for freight.
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. The regulatory bodies referred to in Article 30 of Directive 2001/14/EC which are responsible for the freight corridor shall cooperate to supervise the international activities of the infrastructure managers and applicants in the freight corridor. They shall consult each other and exchange information. Where necessary, they shall request the necessary information from infrastructure managers in the Member State for which they are responsible. Infrastructure managers and any third parties that they may use international capacity allocation are obliged to provide without delay all the information for international train paths they allocate to their regulatory bodies.