Member States shall lay down conditions, including where appropriate advance payments, to ensure that, under normal business conditions and over a reasonable time period, the accounts of an infrastructure manager shall at least balance income from infrastructure charges, surpluses from other commercial activities and State funding on the one hand, and infrastructure expenditure on the other.
Države članice določijo pogoje, ki po potrebi vključujejo predplačila, za zagotovitev, da računovodska evidenca upravljavca železniške infrastrukture, pod normalnimi pogoji poslovanja in v primernem časovnem obdobju, uravnoteži vsaj prihodke upravljavca železniške infrastrukture od uporabnin, presežke iz drugih komercialnih dejavnosti in državno financiranje na eni strani ter infrastrukturne odhodke na drugi.