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    Legal framework for public transport

    The European legislative framework for public transport is currently marked by legal insecurity over the rules that apply to the compensation of public service requirements and the granting of exclusive rights.
    The Altmark ruling establishes some general guidelines, but needs further interpretation which should lead to the adoption of a new regulation on public service requirements and the award of public service contracts in passenger transport by rail, road and inland waterway.
    In addition, the articulation of that regulation with the existing public procurement directives has to be clearly defined.


    CONTACT:
    brigitte.ollier@uitp.org

     

     

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    April 2006 : Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on public passenger transport services by rail and by road - Statement of the EU-Committee after the discussions in the Council Meeting "Transport, Telecommunications and Energy", Brussels, 27 March 2006  (Position Paper of the UITP EU Committee)

     

     

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    March 2006 : New common European legislative framework - State of play (article in UITP's Public Transport International magazine)

     

    - February 2006: Organisation and Major Players of Short Distance Public Transport. New developments in the European Union (Updated and revised edition 2006 on sale from our online store)

      

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    November 2005 : Proposed Regulation on Public Service Requirements (COM (2005) 319 final) (UITP EU Committee Position Paper)

     

     

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    November 2005 : Third Railway Package and Articulation with the Future Regulation on Public Service Requirements (UITP EU Committee Position paper)

     

     

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    December 2003 : The Altmark Case (article in UITP's Public Transport International magazine)

     

     

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    February 2003 : Urban and regional public transport undertakings call for a resumption of work in the Council on the proposal for a Regulation on public service requirements (UITP Position paper)

     

     



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