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The UIRR suggests the actions in order to accelerate the development and the efficiency of the European rail shipment
The association considers justified and necessary to carry out a radical review of the norm
March 3, 2011
The International Union of combined Road-Rail transport companies (UIRR), association that represents the operators of the arranged transport, has sped up the EU commission to take advantage of the intention to rehash directives (2001-12, 2001-13 and 2001-14) that they constitute the first European package on the rail shipment in order to promote the development of this modality of transport and of the entire trasportistica industry of the European Union and to such purpose has introduced a Position containing Paper some actions that second the association would have to be undertaken in order to accelerate this process.
"the UIRR - the executive president of the association has declared, Rudy Colle - confides that, above all if the proposal is strengthened in the course of the legislative procedure embracing the contained opinions in the Position introduced Paper today, the new directive can not only become an accelerator of the improvement of the efficiency of the European railroads, but also of the entire field of the transports of the EU".
Confirming that today it is justified and necessary to carry out a radical review of this norm, the UIRR has explained to have analyzed the proposal under three aspects: if it will return the financing in stable form of the managers of the railway net possible, if it will inside improve the fairness and the transparency of the competition of the railway field and if it contributes to reduce the disparities of conditions of competitiveness of the concurrent modalities of transport.
The sollicitation of the UIRR is turned in the first place to the European parliament and the council so that they demand to the Member States in the long term to elaborate projections on the variations year on year of the rights for the access to the railway traces so that this important voice of railway transport costs of the goods can be previewed in the business planning. According to the association, to such fine they would have to be distributed adequate financings it are to you in order in the long term to allow the continuous update of these projections.
Moreover the UIRR considers that they would not have to be allowed relations privileged of type owner between the railway enterprises and the managers of the railway infrastructure and that the internalizzazione of the railway externalities would not have to happen more quickly and on wider scale for the railway field regarding demanded how much for the street field.
The UIRR rejects also the concept of "segmentation of the market" and deems that the increase rates of access with increase coefficients can be accepted only if placed side by side to the guarantee of elevated levels of service (that they guarantee, for example, a greater average speed and a rate decidedly better punctuality).
At last the UIRR considers the application of reductions in price necessary on the rights of access to the railway traces if they are relative to the distance of degraded lines that they introduce a limitation of permanent character of the speed and the weight for axis.
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