Open AccessCalculation of access charges for rail infrastructure in the light of European Union’s regulations
Author(s) -
Juliusz Engelhardt
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
przegląd komunikacyjny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2544-6037
pISSN - 0033-2232
DOI - 10.35117/a_eng_18_06_08
Subject(s) - directive , accounts payable , vagueness , european union , legislation , business , ultra vires , telecommunications , finance , accounting , law , political science , payment , international trade , engineering , computer science , artificial intelligence , doctrine , programming language , fuzzy logic
The article presents evolution of EU’s regulations referring to the rules of calculation of access charges for rail infrastructure. In the opposite to payable utilization of road, harbor or airport infrastructure, payable access to the rail infrastructure for transport operators (rail carriers) is a relatively new issue in the European railways, because it emerged just in 1991 in relation with taken up system reforms of EU’s rail sector. In the introductory part of the article, the Directive 91/440 has been indicated as a historically first law act that referred to the issue of calculation of access charges for rail infrastructure. Next, there were presented regulations of the Directive 2001/14 adopted within so called first railway package and vagueness in their interpretation, which led to the trials before the European Court of Justice, whereas the most important was the one against Poland, ended with the sentence on the 30th of May 2013. The final part of the article presents references to this sentence and to the new regulations referring to the charges for the access to rail infrastructure, included in the Directive 2014/34 and executive ordinance 2015/909 issued on its basis.