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April 20, 2021 | Financial

European Commission approves state aid for Polish Regional Railways

The aid was approved as the collapse of the operator would have had serious consequences for travel in Poland.

October 30, 2020 | Financial

EC investigation alleges Czech Railways engaged in “predatory pricing”

THE European Commission (EC) has informed state-owned Czech Railways (ČD) of its preliminary view that ČD breached European Union (EU) anti-trust rules by engaging in predatory pricing on passenger services operated on the Prague - Ostrava route between 2011 and 2019.

July 31, 2020 | Financial

EC approves Alstom’s Bombardier Transportation acquisition

THE European Commission (EC) has approved Alstom’s bid to take over rival Bombardier Transportation, a move which will create the second largest manufacturer in the rail sector behind CRRC.

May 5, 2020 | Policy

Mofair questions government funding for DB Long Distance

GERMAN pressure group Mofair is calling for fair government treatment of all train operators and complete transparency in providing extra funding for German Rail (DB).

April 8, 2020 | High-speed

Spanish competition authority curbs Renfe’s high-speed ambitions

SPAIN’s National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has curtailed Adif High Speed’s (Adif AV) plan to award Renfe a 10-year operating contract as part of opening a section of the high-speed rail market to competition.

February 26, 2020 | Financial

EC orders CFR Marfa to repay illegal state aid

AN investigation by the European Commission (EC) has found that Romanian state-owned freight operator CFR Marfa received €570m in illegal state aid, comprising a debt write-off and failure to collect debts from the railway undertaking, beginning in 2010. The operator must now pay this amount back to the government, with interest.

September 20, 2019 | Main line

British competition authority probes West Coast Partnership franchise award

BRITAIN’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched an investigation on September 19 into the awarding of the West Coast Partnership (WCP) franchise to First Rail Holdings and Trenitalia UK.

May 10, 2019 | Main line

BLS pauses plan to take on Swiss inter-city services

SWITZERLAND’s second-largest railway BLS announced on May 9 that it will not take over the operation of two inter-city routes it was awarded in June 2018 by the Swiss Transport Office (BAV) following a ruling by the Federal Administrative Court.

January 16, 2019 | Europe

Online distribution dispute raises questions over Swedish passenger market opening

SWEDEN has long been ahead of the curve in the liberalisation of its railways, and the country began setting a precedent for reforms across Europe as long ago as 1963, when the Transport Policy Act separated Swedish State Railways (SJ) activities into commercial and subsidised segments.

January 9, 2019 | Europe

France to competitively tender loss-making inter-city services

THE French government announced on January 9 that it will publish a prior information notice in the next few days as a first step towards the competitive tendering of inter-city services on the Nantes - Bordeaux and Nantes - Lyon routes.

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