5 Amendments of Thomas ULMER related to 2008/0247(COD)
Amendment 111 #
Council position
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. In defining rail freight corridors the infrastructure managers involved must be allowed the greatest possible flexibility in the actual routing.
Amendment 123 #
Council position
Article 7 – paragraph 6
Article 7 – paragraph 6
6. The management board shall set up an advisory group made up of managers and owners of the terminals of the freight corridor, including sea and inland waterway ports, as well as railway undertakings, including rail freight and passenger operators, shippers, forwarders and/or their representative bodies The management board shall inform the advisory group regularly and in due time about all matters which affect them and the timeframe for dealing with them in the management board and the executive board. This advisory group mayshall issue an opinion on any proposal by the management board which has direct consequences for investment and the management of terminalts members. The advisory group may also issue own-initiative opinions. The management board shall take anyll of these opinions into account. The final decision, however, shall be taken by the management board. The management board shall provide the advisory group with reasons for any decision which differs from the opinion of the advisory group. In the event of disagreement between the management board and the advisory group, the latter may refer the matter to the executive board. The executive board shall act as an intermediary and provide its opinion in due time.
Amendment 136 #
Council position
Article 12 - paragraph 1
Article 12 - paragraph 1
1. The management board forshall require each national infrastructure manager involved in a freight corridor shallto designate or establish a joint body and/or an information system through collaboration between infrastructure managers offering applicants the opportunity to request, in a single place and a single operation, infrastructure capacity for freight trains crossing at least one border along the freight corridor (the "one-stop shop")one-stop shop for receiving and replying to requests for train paths for freight trains crossing at least one border along the corridor (international train path). The infrastructure managers involved in the freight corridor shall provide, in accordance with the provisions of this regulation concerning the use of IT applications, the necessary information in order to deal with international train path requests.
Amendment 156 #
Council position
Article 18 - paragraph 1
Article 18 - paragraph 1
(1) The regulatory bodies referred to in Article 30 of Directive 2001/14/EC shall cooperate in monitoring the competition in the rail freight corridor. In particular, they shall ensure non-discriminatory access to the corridor and shall be the appeal bodies provided under Article 30(2) of that Directive. They shall exchange the necessary information obtained from infrastructure managers and oThey shall exchange the necessary information obtained from infrastructure managers and other relevant parties. They shall cooperate in order to support the establishment of a comparable regulatory level in their relevant partiesMember State.
Amendment 159 #
Council position
Article 18 - paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 18 - paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The regulatory bodies referred to in Article 30 of Directive 2001/14/EC shall ensure non-discriminatory access to the corridor and shall be the appeal bodies provided under Article 30(2) of Directive 2001/14/EC. In order to foster free and fair competition along the corridor, a comparable regulatory level shall be established throughout Europe.