COM(2000)7 - Action by Member States concerning public service requirements and the award of public service contracts in passenger transport by rail, road and inland waterway

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Key information

official title

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on action by Member States concerning public service requirements and the award of public service contracts in passenger transport by rail, road and inland waterway
 
Legal instrument Regulation
Decision making procedure ordinary legislative procedure (COD)
reference by COM-number105 COM(2000)7 EN
Additional COM-numbers COM(2002)107; COM(2005)319; COM(2006)805; COM(2007)460
procedure number107 2000/0212(COD)
CELEX number108 52000PC0007

2.

Key dates

Document 26-07-2000
Online publication 26-07-2000
Decision 23-10-2007; Verordening 2007/1370
Publication in Official Journal109 03-12-2007; OJ L 315, 3.12.2007,Special edition in Croatian: Chapter 07 Volume 013

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Related information

4.

Resulting legislation

 

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  • 1. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 2. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 3. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p. 1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 4. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p. 1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 5. 
    See opinion of Advocate General Farrelly in Case C-324/98, Telaustria Verlags GmbH and Telefonadress GmbH v Post
     
  • 6. 
    Directive 91/440/EEC and Regulation (EC) No 12/98.

     
  • 7. 
    Regulation (EC) No 11/98.

     
  • 8. 
    Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UK.

     
  • 9. 
    Germany, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, UK.

     
  • 10. 
    2000 data from International Union of Public Transport (UITP). 1998 data from Major European players in public transport - new developments in the European Union, 1997, UITP-EuroTeam, 1998.

     
  • 11. 
    Improved Structure and Organisation for urban Transport Operations of Passengers in Europe, final report, 1997.

     
  • 12. 
    Examples drawn from France and the Nordic countries.

     
  • 13. 
    Bus services in the UK, excluding London and Northern Ireland.

     
  • 14. 
    Denmark, Finland, France, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

     
  • 15. 
    Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

     
  • 16. 
    United Kingdom.

     
  • 17. 
    A review of the second year of bus deregulation, WJ Tyson, 1989; Bus deregulation - the metropolitan experience, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford, 1990; Bus deregulation - five years on, WJ Tyson, 1992.

     
  • 18. 
    Exclusive rights may be granted to safeguard the commercial viability of certain types of service. For example, operators will sometimes run feeder services if this allows them to make more profits by bringing passengers onto main routes where the same operator holds an exclusive right. Similarly, operators will sometimes invest in developing new markets if they can be sure that they will enjoy, at least for a time, the fruits of doing so when the market is more mature. Exclusive rights can provide the protection needed for these services to flourish as a result of operators' pursuit of their commercial interest. Exclusive rights are also sometimes used to enable profits from some services to cross-subsidise other, loss-making services. This will only happen, however, if the terms on which the exclusive right is granted ensure it. Spending profits on this form of cross-subsidy is not in operators' commercial interest, whether or not they enjoy an exclusive right.

     
  • 19. 
    Where a measure has the potential to affect trade between Member States, it is liable to fall within the scope of the competition rules in the Treaty, notably those in Articles 81, 82, 86 and 87.

     
  • 20. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 21. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 22. 
    Article 86(2) of the Treaty only provides relief from the requirements of Community competition law, permitting the granting of exclusive rights, if these requirements obstruct the performance, in law or in fact, of the particular tasks assigned to an undertaking. The Court's judgments in La Poste (Case 39/94 Syndicat français de l'Express international (SFEI) and others v La Poste and others
     
  • 23. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 24. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p. 1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 25. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 26. 
    Examination of Community law relating to the public service obligations and contracts in the field of inland passenger transport, submitted to the European Commission by NEA Transport research and training, 1998.

     
  • 27. 
    A4-0289/96, 1 October 1996.

     
  • 28. 
    CoR 436/98 final, 11 March 1999.

     
  • 29. 
    CES 324/99, 24 March 1999.

     
  • 30. 
    In their comments on the NEA study, the Community of European Railways (CER) took the view that the matter of competition should be left to individual Member States. The International Road Transport Union (IRU) supported appropriate Community action, as did most but not all of the members of the European Committee of the International Union of Public Transport (UITP). Appropriate Community action was also supported by Eurocities, Car Free Cities and the POLIS network of local and regional authorities.

     
  • 31. 
    OJ C

     
  • 32. 
    OJ C

     
  • 33. 
    OJ C

     
  • 34. 
    OJ L 156, 28.6.1969 p. 1; Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ L 169, 29.6.1991, p. 1).

     
  • 35. 
    Improved structure and organisation for urban transport operations of passengers in Europe Isotope consortium, CEC, 1998; Examination of Community law relating to the public service obligations and contracts in the field of inland passenger transport, submitted to the European Commission by NEA Transport research and training, 1998.

     
  • 36. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 37. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 38. 
    OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p. 1; Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC (OJ L 328, 28.11.1997, p. 1).

     
  • 39. 
    OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84; Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC (OJ L 101, 1.4.1998, p. 1).

     
  • 40. 
    OJ L 61, 5.3.1977, p. 26; Directive as amended by Directive 98/50/EC (OJ L 201, 17.7.1998, p. 88).

     
  • 41. 
    OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1.

     
  • 42. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p. 1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 43. 
    OJ L 130, 15.6.1970, p. 1; Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 543/97 (OJ L 84, 26.3.1997, p. 6).

     
  • 44. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 45. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 46. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 47. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p. 1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 48. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 49. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 50. 
    See opinion of Advocate General Farrelly in Case C-324/98, Telaustria Verlags GmbH and Telefonadress GmbH v Post
     
  • 51. 
    See opinion of Advocate General Farrelly in Case C-324/98, Telaustria Verlags GmbH and Telefonadress GmbH v Post
     
  • 52. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 53. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 54. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 55. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p.

    1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 56. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p.

    1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 57. 
    See opinion of Advocate General Farrelly in Case C-324/98, Telaustria Verlags GmbH and Telefonadress GmbH v Post
     
  • 58. 
    Directive 91/440/EEC and Regulation (EC) No 12/98.

     
  • 59. 
    Regulation (EC) No 11/98.

     
  • 60. 
    Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UK.

     
  • 61. 
    Germany, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, UK.

     
  • 62. 
    2000 data from International Union of Public Transport (UITP). 1998 data from Major European players in public transport - new developments in the European Union, 1997, UITP-EuroTeam, 1998.

     
  • 63. 
    Improved Structure and Organisation for urban Transport Operations of Passengers in Europe, final report, 1997.

     
  • 64. 
    Examples drawn from France and the Nordic countries.

     
  • 65. 
    Bus services in the UK, excluding London and Northern Ireland.

     
  • 66. 
    Denmark, Finland, France, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

     
  • 67. 
    Austria, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

     
  • 68. 
    United Kingdom.

     
  • 69. 
    A review of the second year of bus deregulation, WJ Tyson, 1989; Bus deregulation - the metropolitan experience, Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford, 1990; Bus deregulation - five years on, WJ Tyson, 1992.

     
  • 70. 
    Exclusive rights may be granted to safeguard the commercial viability of certain types of service. For example, operators will sometimes run feeder services if this allows them to make more profits by bringing passengers onto main routes where the same operator holds an exclusive right. Similarly, operators will sometimes invest in developing new markets if they can be sure that they will enjoy, at least for a time, the fruits of doing so when the market is more mature. Exclusive rights can provide the protection needed for these services to flourish as a result of operators' pursuit of their commercial interest. Exclusive rights are also sometimes used to enable profits from some services to cross-subsidise other, loss-making services. This will only happen, however, if the terms on which the exclusive right is granted ensure it. Spending profits on this form of cross-subsidy is not in operators' commercial interest, whether or not they enjoy an exclusive right.

     
  • 71. 
    Where a measure has the potential to affect trade between Member States, it is liable to fall within the scope of the competition rules in the Treaty, notably those in Articles 81, 82, 86 and 87.

     
  • 72. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 73. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 74. 
    Article 86(2) of the Treaty only provides relief from the requirements of Community competition law, permitting the granting of exclusive rights, if these requirements obstruct the performance, in law or in fact, of the particular tasks assigned to an undertaking. The Court's judgments in La Poste (Case 39/94 Syndicat français de l'Express international (SFEI) and others v La Poste and others
     
  • 75. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 76. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p.

    1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 77. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 78. 
    Examination of Community law relating to the public service obligations and contracts in the field of inland passenger transport, submitted to the European Commission by NEA Transport research and training, 1998.

     
  • 79. 
    A4-0289/96, 1 October 1996.

     
  • 80. 
    CoR 436/98 final, 11 March 1999.

     
  • 81. 
    CES 324/99, 24 March 1999.

     
  • 82. 
    In their comments on the NEA study, the Community of European Railways (CER) took the view that the matter of competition should be left to individual Member States. The International Road Transport Union (IRU) supported appropriate Community action, as did most but not all of the members of the European Committee of the International Union of Public Transport (UITP). Appropriate Community action was also supported by Eurocities, Car Free Cities and the POLIS network of local and regional authorities.

     
  • 83. 
    OJ C

     
  • 84. 
    OJ C

     
  • 85. 
    OJ C

     
  • 86. 
    OJ L 156, 28.6.1969 p. 1; Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ L 169, 29.6.1991, p.

    1).

     
  • 87. 
    Improved structure and organisation for urban transport operations of passengers in Europe Isotope consortium, CEC, 1998; Examination of Community law relating to the public service obligations and contracts in the field of inland passenger transport, submitted to the European Commission by NEA Transport research and training, 1998.

     
  • 88. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 89. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 90. 
    OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p. 1; Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC (OJ L 328, 28.11.1997, p.

    1).

     
  • 91. 
    OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84; Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC (OJ L 101, 1.4.1998, p.

    1).

     
  • 92. 
    OJ L 61, 5.3.1977, p. 26; Directive as amended by Directive 98/50/EC (OJ L 201, 17.7.1998, p. 88).

     
  • 93. 
    OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 1.

     
  • 94. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p.

    1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 95. 
    OJ L 130, 15.6.1970, p. 1; Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 543/97 (OJ L 84, 26.3.1997, p.

    6).

     
  • 96. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 97. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (OJ 156, 28.6.1969).

     
  • 98. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 99. 
    Directive 92/50/EEC of 18 June 1992 relating to the coordination of procedures for the award of public service contracts (OJ L 209, 24.7.1992, p.

    1); Directive as last amended by Directive 97/52/EC; Directive 93/38/EEC of 14 June 1993 coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (OJ L 199, 9.8.1993 p. 84); Directive as last amended by Directive 98/4/EC.

     
  • 100. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 101. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 102. 
    See opinion of Advocate General Farrelly in Case C-324/98, Telaustria Verlags GmbH and Telefonadress GmbH v Post
     
  • 103. 
    See opinion of Advocate General Farrelly in Case C-324/98, Telaustria Verlags GmbH and Telefonadress GmbH v Post
     
  • 104. 
    Regulation (EEC) No 1893/91 (OJ 169, 29.6.1991).

     
  • 105. 
    De Europese Commissie kent nummers toe aan officiële documenten van de Europese Unie. De Commissie maakt onderscheid in een aantal typen documenten door middel van het toekennen van verschillende nummerseries. Het onderscheid is gebaseerd op het soort document en/of de instelling van de Unie van wie het document afkomstig is.
     
  • 106. 
    De Raad van de Europese Unie kent aan wetgevingsdossiers een uniek toe. Dit nummer bestaat uit een vijfcijferig volgnummer gevolgd door een schuine streep met de laatste twee cijfers van het jaartal, bijvoorbeeld 12345/00 - een document met nummer 12345 uit het jaar 2000.
     
  • 107. 
    Het interinstitutionele nummer is een nummerreeks die binnen de Europese Unie toegekend wordt aan voorstellen voor regelgeving van de Europese Commissie.
    Binnen de Europese Unie worden nog een aantal andere nummerseries gebruikt. Iedere instelling heeft één of meerdere sets documenten met ieder een eigen nummering. Die reeksen komen niet overeen met elkaar of het interinstitutioneel nummer.
     
  • 108. 
    Deze databank van de Europese Unie biedt de mogelijkheid de actuele werkzaamheden (workflow) van de Europese instellingen (Europees Parlement, Raad, ESC, Comité van de Regio's, Europese Centrale Bank, Hof van Justitie enz.) te volgen. EURlex volgt alle voorstellen (zoals wetgevende en begrotingsdossiers) en mededelingen van de Commissie, vanaf het moment dat ze aan de Raad of het Europees Parlement worden voorgelegd.
     
  • 109. 
    Als dag van bekendmaking van een Europees besluit geldt de dag waarop het besluit in het Publicatieblad wordt bekendgemaakt, en daardoor in alle officiële talen van de Europese Unie bij het Publicatiebureau beschikbaar is.
     
  • 110. 
    This legally binding act of the European Union is directly applicable in all member states of the European Union. The regulation is similar to national legislation in terms of the impact and direct effect it generates. As such the regulation is the most pervasive of all the legal instruments of the EU.