c) "rail transport undertaking" means a private or public undertaking which is authorised to carry persons or goods and which ensures traction;

c) ` rail transport undertaking` means a private or public undertaking which is authorised to carry persons or goods and which ensures traction;

a) ` rail transport undertaking` means a private or public undertaking which is authorised to carry persons or goods and which ensures traction;

Examples of signs showing the direction of a car parking more particularly intended for vehicles whose drivers wish to use means of public transport:

` Public transportation system` means all facilities, conveyances and instrumentalities, whether publicly or privately owned, that are used in or for publicly available services for the transportation of persons or cargo.

"Air transportation" means the carriage by aircraft of passengers, baggage, cargo, and mail, separately or in combination, held out to the public for remuneration or hire;

Such inscriptions may also limit the period for which parking is permitted or indicate that public transport is accessible from the parking place by means of a "+ sign" followed by an indication of the type of transport, in word or symbol form.

Signs E,14 b and E,14 c are examples of the signs which may be used to indicate a car park more particularly intended for vehicles whose drivers wish to use a means of public transport.

3) ` air transport` means the carriage by aircraft of passengers, baggage, cargo, and mail, separately or in combination, held out to the public for remuneration or hire, which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall include scheduled and non-scheduled (charter) air transport, and full cargo services;

Any person commits an offence within the meaning of this Convention if that person unlawfully and intentionally delivers, places, discharges or detonates an explosive or other lethal device in, into or against a place of public use, a State or government facility, a public transportation system or an infrastructure facility:

Subject to the provisions of paragraph 12 of this Article, the only lights which may be used as light signals for regulating vehicle traffic, other than those intended solely for public transport vehicles, are the following, which shall have the meanings here assigned to them:

(e) "sabotage" means any deliberate act directed against a nuclear facility or nuclear material in use, storage or transport which could directly or indirectly endanger the health and safety of personnel, the public or the environment by exposure to radiation or release of radioactive substances.

The marking of lanes reserved for certain categories of vehicle shall be by means of lines which should be clearly distinguished from other continuous or broken lines on the carriageway, notably by being wider and with less space between strokes. When a lane is reserved for regular public transport service vehicles

"Public service obligations" means obligations which the transport undertaking in question, if it were considering its own commercial interests, would not assume or would not assume to the same extent or under the same conditions.

For the purposes of this Directive "vehicle" means any motor vehicle intended for use on the road, having at least four wheels and a maximum design speed exceeding 25 km/h, and its trailers, with the exception of public transport vehicles, vehicles which run on rails, agricultural tractors and machinery and public works vehicles.

The provision of bus transport services to the public shall not be considered under this Act to be an activity within the meaning of Article 103, point 3, where other providers are free to provide those services in the same geographical area under equal conditions.

whereas all existing cases in the Member States should be covered, with the exception, on the one hand, of public service obligations, within the meaning of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69 (4) of 26 June 1969 on action by Member States concerning the obligations inherent in the concept of a public service in transport by rail, road and inland waterway and, on the other hand, of disparities in the infrastructure and taxation burdens under the rules governing the three modes of transport-disparities which will in due course be eliminated under the measures proposed with regard to infrastructure charging and in conjunction with the adjustment of the general and specific taxation systems for transport;

For the purposes of this Regulation, "tariff obligations" means any obligation imposed upon transport undertakings to apply, in particular for certain categories of passenger, for certain categories of goods, or on certain routes, rates fixed or approved by any public authority which are contrary to the commercial interests of the undertaking and which result from the imposition of, or refusal to modify, special tariff provisions.

seizure of aircraft, ships or other means of public or goods transport;

Essential facilities mean facilities of a public telecommunications transport network and service that

The identification of the means of transport shall be published by the Member States concerned in accordance with paragraph 4.

(c) 'essential telecommunications facilities' mean facilities of a public telecommunications transport network and service that:

The danger level is minimised by the choice of means of transport, involving, inter alia, the use of special transport elements and "no smoking" notices clearly visible to members of the public.

'railway undertaking' means any public or private undertaking which provides services for the transport of goods and/or passengers by rail.

Entities providing transport services to the public within the meaning of Article 4(1) of the 'Loi fédérale sur les entreprises de trolleybus 'of 29 March 1950

The Parties therefore agree to take coordinated action to promote the use of rail transport, and in particular combined transport, in the interests of public health and the environment, and improve market access and facilitate road traffic by appropriate means.

Entities within the meaning of Articles 1(2) and 2(1) of the 'Loi fédérale sur les chemins de fer' of 20 December 1957, where they operate public transport services by standard- or narrow- gauge railway fn.

'railway undertaking' shall mean any private or public undertaking whose main business is to provide tail transport services for goods and/or passengers with a requirement that the undertaking should ensure traction,

'railway undertaking' shall mean any private or public undertaking the main business of which is to provide rail transport services for goods and/or passengers, with a requirement that the undertaking must ensure traction;

"a) 'railway undertaking' shall mean any public or private undertaking the principal business of which is to provide services for the transport of goods and/or passengers by rail with a requirement that the undertaking must ensure traction;

(d) '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;

'United Nations recommendations' shall mean the recommendations laid down by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, as published in the UN (Orange Book) and as amended by the date when this Directive is adopted,

inspections and formalities relating to the movement of means of transport and goods which are not moving under a customs transit procedure may be performed from Monday to Friday during an uninterrupted period of at least six hours, unless those days are public holidays;

"railway undertaking" means any public or private undertaking, licensed according to applicable Community legislation, the principal business of which is to provide services for the transport of goods and/or passengers by rail with a requirement that the undertaking must ensure traction;

The provision of bus transport services to the public shall not be considered to be a relevant activity within the meaning of paragraph 2 (c) where other entities are free to provide those services, either in general or in a particular geographical area, under the same condition as the contracting entities.

inspections and formalities relating to the movement of means of transport and goods which are not moving under a customs transit procedure may be performed from Monday to Friday during an uninterrupted period of at least ten hours, and on Saturday during an uninterrupted period of at least six hours, unless those days are public holidays;

inspections and formalities relating to the movement of means of transport and goods which are not being carried under a customs transit procedure may be performed from Monday to Friday during an uninterrupted period of at least 10 hours, and on Saturday during an uninterrupted period of at least six hours, unless those days are public holidays;

"applicant" means a licensed railway undertaking and/or an international grouping of railway undertakings, and, in Member States which provide for such a possibility, other persons and/or legal entities with public service or commercial interest in procuring infrastructure capacity, such as public authorities under Regulation (EEC) No 1191/69(12) and shippers, freight forwarders and combined transport operators, for the operation of railway service on their respective territories;

- "railway undertaking" shall mean any private or public undertaking whose main business is to provide rail transport services for goods and/or passengers with a requirement that the undertaking should ensure traction; such traction may be provided using rolling stock that is not the property of the railway undertaking concerned and using staff who are not directly employed by the railway undertaking concerned,

(10) In Common Position (EC) No 33/2003 of 20 March 2003 adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a directive of the European Parliament and the Council on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts fn and Common Position (EC) No 34/2003 of 20 March 2003 adopted by the Council with a view to adopting a directive of the European Parliament and the Council coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors fn, product areas are not established by means of reference to the statistical classification of products by activity (CPA).

At least one month before the starting of the marketing year, Member States that have a national threshold for the product in question, as set out in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2202/96, shall fix and publish the manner in which the means of transport referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 and in point (b) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 will be identified to enable their competent authorities to carry out appropriate physical checks.

During their observation visits, Community inspectors, accompanied by national inspectors and without prejudice to applicable Community law and complying with the rules of procedure provided for in the laws of the Member State concerned, shall have access to the relevant files and documents and to the public premises and places, vessels and private premises, land and means of transport where the activities covered by this Regulation take place, in order to collect data (not containing named references) necessary for the accomplishment of their task.

Public means of transport

owners of means of transport for public use:

Where no appropriate public transport exists, information on other environmentally preferable means of transport shall also be provided.

'Public telecommunications transport service' means any telecommunications transport service required, explicitly or in effect, by a Member to be offered to the public generally.

"A public service contract" shall mean a contract concluded between the competent authorities of a Member State and a transport undertaking in order to provide the public with adequate transport services.