The infrastructure of the trans-European conventional rail system will be that on the lines of the trans-European transport network identified in Decision No 1692/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 on Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network(1) or listed in any update to the same Decision as a result of the revision provided for in Article 21 of that Decision.

Whereas pursuant to Council Directive 91/440/EEC of 29 July 1991 on the development of the Community's railways (6) railway companies must have increased access to the rail networks of the Member States, which in turn requires infrastructure, equipment and rolling stock interoperability;

Owing to the specifics of the competition problems raised by a given concentration in several markets, the parties may have to offer remedy packages which comprise a combination of divestiture remedies and other remedies that facilitate market entry by granting network access or access to specific content(35).

trans-European high-speed rail system means the structure described in Annex I, composed of the railway infrastructures comprising lines and fixed installations, of the trans-European transport network, constructed or upgraded to be travelled on at high speeds, and rolling stock designed for travelling on those infrastructures;

contribute to awareness raising and the availability of timely, objective and comprehensive information on network and information security issues for all users by, inter alia, promoting exchanges of current best practices, including on methods of alerting users, and seeking synergy between public and private sector initiatives;

Infrastructure managers shall ensure that the application of the charging scheme results in equivalent and non-discriminatory charges for different railway undertakings that perform services of equivalent nature in a similar part of the market and that the charges actually applied comply with the rules laid down in the network statement.

a high-level working party consisting of representatives of the governments of the Member States, of the European railways and of the European railway industry convened by the Commission in order to meet the request expressed by the Council in its resolution of 4 and 5 December 1989 drew up the master plan for a European high-speed train network;

Whereas a high-level working party consisting of representatives of the governments of the Member States, of the European railways and of the European railway industry convened by the Commission in order to meet the request expressed by the Council in its resolution of 4 and 5 December 1989 drew up the master plan for a European high-speed train network;

Whereas the Commission's White Paper on the development of a common transport policy calls for optimum use to be made of existing capacities and for the integration of all networks relating to the various modes of transport into a trans-European network for the road, rail, inland waterway, sea and air transport of passengers and goods and for combined transport;

The driver's rule book shall be written in the language of one of the States of the interoperable network chosen by the railway undertaking in liaison with the infrastructure managers of the networks that the service will be operated on, except for messages and forms ("formulaires") which shall remain in the language of the infrastructure managers (see subsection 4.1.4.1).

characteristics required to appear in the Register of Rolling Stock), respectively set up for a specific type of trainsets or if needed for one specific train, representing a description of the train characteristics (basic parameters, interfaces, performances) which are needed to assess the ability of the train to run on all or on a part of the lines of the trans-European rail transport network.

Since the objectives of the proposed action, namely the exchange of good practices on a European scale and the raising of the awareness of local authorities by means of European networks, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

Entities providing regular coach transport services under a special or exclusive licence pursuant to the laki luvanvaraisesta henkilöliikenteestä tiellä//lagen om tillstandspliktig persontrafik pa väg (343/1991) and municipal transport authorities and public enterprises providing public transport services by bus, rail or underground railway, or maintaining a network for the purpose of providing such transport services.

In accordance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty, the objectives of this Directive, namely to develop the Community's railways, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States in view of the need to ensure fair and non-discriminatory terms for access to the infrastructure as well as to take account of the manifestly international dimensions involved in the operation of significant elements of the railway networks, and can therefore, by reason of the need for coordinated trans-national action, be better achieved by the Community.

the operation of networks providing a service to the public in the field of transport by urban railway, automated systems, tramway, trolley bus, bus or cable.

the development of a road network and the modernization, on major routes of common interest and trans-European links, of road, inland waterway, railway, combined transport port and airport infrastructure,

'railway operators' (hereinafter referred to as `ROs') shall mean contracting entities which either are public authorities or public undertakings or operate on the basis of special or exclusive rights granted by a competent authority of one of the Parties and which have as one of their activities the operation of networks providing a service to the public in the field of transport by railway;