CELEX: 51972PC1517
Language: en
Date: 1972-12-07
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION supplementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1192/69 of 26 June 1959 on common rules for the normalization of the accounts of railway undertakings (Submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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                                           COM(72)1517 final
                                           Brussels , 7 December 1972
                                 Proposai for a
                               COUNCIL REGULATION
            supplementing Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1192/ 69 of
            26 June 1959 on common rules for the normalization of
                      the accounts of railway undertakings
                ( Submitted to the Council by the Commission)
   C0M(72)1517 final
 ---pagebreak---                            Proposai for a Council Régulation
supplementing Council Regulation (EEC ) No 1192/69 of 26 June 1969 on common
rules for the normalization of the accounts of railway undertakings
         THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
         having regard to . the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community , and. in particular Articles 75      94 thereof 5
         having regard to the proposal from the Commissions
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         having regard to the. Opinion of the Suropeaji Parliament }
         having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee ?
         whereas, pursuant to Article -. 7 of Couhcil Decision No 65/271^^ of
13 May 1965 on the harmonization of certain provisions affecting competition
in transport "by rail , road and inland waterway , the Council adopted on
26 June 1969 Regulation (EEC ) No 1192/69^^ on common rules for the normali­
zation of the accounts of railway undertakings ;
         whereas the main objective of the action undertaken to normalize the
accounts of railway undertakings is to eliminate certain disparities which
arise by reason of the imposition of financial burdens on , or the grant of
benefits to , those undertakings by public authorities and which are conse­
quently liable to cause substantial distortion in the conditions of competition
as between the various transport modes and undertakings ?
í1' OJ No 88 , 24 May 1965
^ OJ No L 156 , 2q. June 1969, p. 8
 ---pagebreak---           whereas such disparities still exist in respect of certain railway
undertakings to which Regulation (SEC ) No 1192/69 does not at "present' apply-}
whereas the principle of equal treatment requires the inclusion of those
undertakings also within the scope of that Regulation, provided that their
technical and administrative structures are comparable to those of the
undertakings covered by the latter and that the current scope of their
operations is such as to be of interest to the common transport policy ,
         whereas a railway undertaking not being a national undertaking
satisfies these conditions if its network is connected to that of a national
undertaking and it provides services complementing those of the latter , or if
on certain routes it competes with transport undertakings covered by the
Regulation }
         whereas the application of Regulation (SEC ) Ho 1192/69 to other
undertakings requires the adjustment in respect of those undertakings of
the time limits' provided for in that Regulation}
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION s
 ---pagebreak---           The text of Article 3 of Regulation (l?EC ) Wo 1192/ 69 is replaced, by
the followmg ;                     .       . ■;
               /
" This Régulation shall apply :
" 1 . to the following undertakings ï                                                  >
"     – Société ïïationale des Chemns da fer Beiges { S.N»C , B. )/
" '     Naxioaale të&ataohappij üe? Belgische Spoorwegan ( N.K.B . S * )j
" •, – Baftske Statsbaner ( D.S.E. ). -         '
'•    - Deutsche Bundesbahri .( D„B .), '
"     - Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français ( S.N.C.F. ) r
'•    - Côras Iornpair liireann ( C.I . S. ).
"     - Azienda autonoma delle Ferrovie dello Stato ( F.S. ).
"     - Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Luxembourgeois ( C.FcL . ) T –
"     - N.V. Nederlandse Spoorwegen ( N.S. ).
"     - British Railways Board (B.R.B. ),                  ,           .      . w- ' j
"     - Northern Ireland Railways Company Ltd. ( N.I.R.)j                 , ...
" 2 . to any other railway undertaking which either :
"     - has a network connected to that of any undertaking referred to in
"       paragraph 1 and carries out transport operations for hire or reward
"       on an exchange traffic baEis with such undertaking ; for the^e
"       purposes | a connected network means a network linked by a common
"       track or station to that of any undertaking referred to in paragraph 1
"       and exchange traffic means any transport operations conducted over
"       the two networks under cover of a single transport document recognized
"       by both undertakings concerned ; or
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      - is in effective , direct competition on certain routes with any trans­
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        port undertaking referred to in paragraph 1 . "
 ---pagebreak---                                        Article 2
       An Article 14(a) is to "be added , to read as follows :
"                                     Article 14(a )
"      As regards the application of this Regulation to the transport under­
" takings referred to in Article 3(2 ), the following timetable shall apply :
" ( a ) the financial compensation referred to in Article 1(2 ) shall be
"        effected from 1 January 19755
" (b ) tlie classes of financial burden or benefit specified in Article 4(2 )
"         and ( 3 ) shall be terminated by 1 January 1976 at the latest ."
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                                       Article 3 •
       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1973 *
       This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
in all Member States .
                                                         For the Council
Done at Brussels ,                                       The Président