RAIL:

RAIL

Rail, large-scale

A contract of carriage for combined road-rail transport which is amended so that carriage terminates within the Community instead of outside may not be performed by the railway authorities without prior authorisation from the office of departure.

North to South-East railway connecting the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegro) to the Hellenic Republic (via Titov Veles), particularly multimodal terminals at Tabanovce, Miravci and Gevgelija,

North to south-east railway connecting the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegro) to the Hellenic Republic (via Titov Veles), particularly multimodal terminals at Tabanovce, Miravci and Gevgelija,

rail.

underground railway

Other railways

Travel by rail

Railways with wide track gauge (Russian) (1520 mm)

Railways with wide track gauge (Irish) (1600 mm)

Railways with standard track gauge (1435 mm)

Railways with wide track gauge (Finnish) (1524 mm)

Railways with wide track gauge (Iberian) (1688 mm)

F = Rail

Railways with normal loading gauge on the European continent

Railways with normal loading gauge in Great Britain

"SZ" means Slovenske Zeleznice d.d. and, as the context may require, its legal successor Holding Slovenske Zeleznice d.o.o.

the modernisation of management and operations of road transport, railways and airports;

pensions pursuant to the Regulation on conditions of employment of the Netherlands Railways (R.D.V. 1964 N.S.);

a. equipment transported by road or rail should be in approved locked vehicles or containers.

Priority should be given to those measures set out in the provisions of Union law on railways and combined transport.

Travel costs shall be reimbursed in the form of a lump sum based on the rail cost, in accordance with point 1;

It covers also a swap-body which is a load compartment designed especially for combined rail/road transport;

consistent active and passive protection against noise in all new construction projects (roads, railways, residential areas);

(Harmonisation of reconstruction of public highways and railways and connected auxiliary infrastructural works with present act)

Construction of railways and intermodal transhipment facilities, and of intermodal terminals, as far as not included in annex I.

The Bank and HSZ (formerly known in 1992 as Slovenske železnice, p.o. (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia No 33/92), which then transformed into Slovenske železnice, d.d. in 1995, (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia No 71/93) which has now been registered as Holding Slovenske železnice, d.o.o. as of 29 August 2003) entered into following Finance Contracts (hereinafter together called ` Contracts` ):

The carriage to which this Regulation applies shall remain subject to the national or international prescriptions applicable in general to the carriage of goods by rail.

Special attention should be given to transit road transport, which has to be transferred to railways (piggyback trains) in co-operation with neighbouring countries.

Construction of tramways, elevated and underground railways, suspended lines or similar lines of a particular type used exclusively or mainly for passenger transport.

(b) Finance Contract (hereinafter called ` Contract B` ) regarding Slovenia Railways Project/B (Fi Nr. 1.7024) dated 10/13 December 1993 in an amount equivalent to EUR 9 million to assist the Republic of Slovenia in improving the condition of its core rail network and to assist SZ in the implementation of its railways restructuring programme;

considering that, in the interest of international carriage by rail, it is important to bring up to date the international multilateral conventions and agreements which exist in the railway field and to integrate them, where appropriate, into the Convention,

(E) On 14 March 2003, the Parliament of Slovenia passed the Act on Restructuring the Public Company Slovenske Zeleznice d.d. (the "Restructuring Act"), pursuant to which SZ was dissolved and in its place a limited liability company Holding Slovenske Zeleznice d.o.o. ("Holding SZ") was established.

To the period of leave provided for in Section 1 shall be added travelling time based on the distance by rail between the place of leave and the place of employment, calculated as follows:

pensions pursuant to the Law of 15 February 1967 establishing a new pension scheme for members of the personnel of the Netherlands Railways and their survivors (Spoorwegpensioenwet);

ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT RELATING TO THE LOAN AGREEMENT (SLOVENIA RAILWAY PROJECT) DATED 12 APRIL 1994, BETWEEN SLOVENSKE ZELEZNICE D.D. AND EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

(a) Finance Contract (hereinafter called ` Contract A` ) regarding Slovenia Railways Project/A (Fi Nr. 1.7023) dated 10/13 December 1993 in an amount equivalent to EUR 38 million to assist the Republic of Slovenia in improving the condition of its core rail network and to assist HSZ in the implementation of its railways restructuring programme as amended by letter dated 13 August 1996;

1 Subject to paragraph 2, the provisions relating to the liability of the carrier in case of death of, or personal injury to, passengers shall not apply to loss or damage arising in the course of carriage which, in accordance with the contract of carriage, was not carriage by rail.

Specific auxiliary infrastructural works, such as road and railway devices, premises and works for weighing and for road or railway control, and other arrangements on roads and railways in accordance with regulations on public highways and railway transport for whose construction the conditions specified in the fourth paragraph of Article 3 of this act are fulfilled may be constructed alongside the works specified in the first paragraph of this article.

Travel expenses for missions carried out by rail shall be reimbursed on presentation of supporting documents on the basis of the cost of transport in first class by the shortest route between the place of employment and the place of the mission.

4 The carriage of dangerous goods as hand luggage, registered luggage as well as in or on vehicles which, in accordance with this Title are carried by rail, must comply with the Regulation concerning the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID).

(a) international combined transport shall mean intermodal transport where the major part of the European journey is by rail, inland waterways or sea and any initial and/or final legs carried out by road are as short as possible;

(c) Finance Contract (hereinafter called ` Contract C` ) regarding Slovenia Railways Project II (Fi Nr. 1.7359) dated 7/11 July 1994 in an amount equivalent to EUR 13 million to partially rehabilitate and upgrade trunk east-west railway of the Republic of Slovenia;

The entry into force of the Annexes, adopted by the Committee of Technical Experts in accordance with Article 8 paragraph 3, in all the States parties to the 1938 version of the International Convention on the Technical Unity of Railways, signed at Berne on 21 October 1882, shall abrogate that convention.

SMR was ascertained on the basis of a historical mortality study from 1987 to 1991 with the data collected by the Slovene Railroad Company, Central Registry of all inhabitants and the Registry of the deceased of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.

"Combined transport" means the transport of goods whereby the vehicle or trailer, semi-trailer, swap body, container, with or without tractor, use the road for the initial or terminal leg of the journey, which is as short as possible, and travel by rail, waterway or sea for a part of the journey.

Eurofima by an equipment financing dated 30. 07. 2004 ("Financing Documents") extends to the Holding Slovenske železnice, d.o.o. ("Borrower") debt financing for purposes of refinancing certain railroad rolling stock in an amount not exceeding EUR 80'000'000 (Euro eighty million).

Quiet vehicle development, the reduction of traffic speed and density (e.g. at night-time), the construction of new roads away from residential areas and the installation of anti-noise barriers (roads, railways, industry) have positive effects on the reduction of the average level of noise pollution.