Development of Community's railways (amend. Directive 91/440/EEC). Railway package

By approving the report drafted by Mr Georg JARZEMBOWSKI (EPP-ED, D), the European Parliament adopted, under codecision procedure, second reading, the legislative resolution on the Council common position with a view to the adoption of a European Parliament and Council Directive amending Council Directive 91/440/EEC on the development of the Community's railways. However, this report was subject to amendments which relate in particular to: - the extension of the conditions to provide services and access rights for a transitional period; - the railway undertakings being granted rights of access to the entire European rail network for both national and international freight transport after the transitional period; - the extension of access rights, these should not be extended later than 2010 to include, on equitable conditions, all international passenger transport; - the application of paragraph 3 which shall be subject to a report by the Commission, to be submitted by four years after the entry into force of this Directive; - the Trans-European Rail Freight Network, the access that the railway undertakings are seeking to the Trans-European Rail Freight Network for a transitional period of five years after the entry into force of this Directive for the purpose of operating international freight services; - the monitoring of the use of networks and the evolution of the framework conditions in the rail sector shall be monitored by the Commission. �