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Commission launches infraction proceedings agains most member states
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| For failure to implement the First Railway Package, directives 91/440 and 2001/14. |
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Open letter to DB
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| DB has yet again given a distorted picture of the UK railways performance in its presentation of its 2008 Competition Report in early June 2008.
Attached is RFG’s open letter to DB pointing this out, and suggesting that it is time to stop criticising the UK rail structure – otherwise people might start wondering why the company bought EWS Railway and Chiltern Railway. |
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North Sea Region Annual Conference
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| Tony Berkeley spoke at the plenary session of thisthree day conference of members of the Interreg IV B North sea Region at Herning, DK on 11 June on rail freight as a sustainable transport solution for the Region and Europe generally |
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European University Florence, School of Regulation
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| At a conference in Florence on 18 April to discuss the need for regulation in the rail sector, and to consider best practice, Tony Berkeley spoke on bahalf of RFG and ERFA on the need for iindepndent regulation to enable competition above rail in the freight sector to happen.
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tony Berkeley's speech to Intermodal 2007, Amsterdam, 4 December 2007
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UIP Congress Cannes, September 2007
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| Tony Berkeley attended the UIP conference in Cannes and aprticipted in two discussion sessions on European rail issues. |
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French Rail Regulator (MCAF) Annual Report 2006
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| This Report, in English, descvtibes the activities of the MCAF as the French Rail Regulator. We publish it here since it is not on the MCAF website and is difficult to find. |
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Belgium closes out new rail freight operators - 4 May 2007
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| The Belgium Government's Royal Decree effectively requiring all drivers employed by independent train operators to be trained and approved by their competitor, SNCB, could mean that other operators will have to close their operations in Begium. |
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Railway Reforms in the UK
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| A link to the Success of the UK Railway Structure document |
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ERFA preliminary notes on meeting on Belgian signalling system
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| On Monday 6 October 2006, ERFA attended the Belgian Ministry of Transport's public hearing on the introduction of the intermediate TBL1+ safety system, prior to ETCS. |
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