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Switzerland will not separate the management of the railway infrastructure from the exercise of the railway services
However an independent institute for the allocation will be constituted of the traces
May 29, 2014
The Swiss government does not have the intention of separate the management of the railway infrastructure from the exercise of the railway services. Yesterday the Helvetic federal Council has discussed the future organization about the railway infrastructure concluding that, in the current context of competition, a separation between infrastructure and exercise are not a practicable option and that, however, in order to guarantee the parity of conditions in the access to the net, the service for the allocation of the traces, currently of competence of the railroads and realized through Traccia Svizzera IT KNOWS, limited company nonprofit of property of railway enterprises SBB CFF FFS, BLS and Schweizerische Südostbahn (SOB) and from the Union of Public transport (UTP) ognuna with 25% of the share capital, will be transferred to an independent institute of the Confederation. Moreover the federal Council intends to upgrade the Commission of arbitrateed in railway matter (CAF) and to fix for law the rights and the duties of the responsibles of the system.
Between the objectives of the federal Council there is also that to assign for law to the railway enterprises the right to take part in the decisions of the managers of the infrastructure with respect to the investments and to participate to the definition of the timetable.
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