Ofce of Rail and Road's approval for a track access agreement with Network Rail.

accordance with our statutory duties. These include:

## What Factors Do We Consider When Making Track Access Decisions?

We look at the following things before we grant approval:
cases where an operator and Network funds, which recognises the need to work within fxed government budgets.

their own revenue, not just take it away from the current operator. We call this the 'not primarily abstractive' test.

## Economic Equilibrium Test