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the ERFA plaude the Arafer French for the sollicitation to a greater engagement for the development of the railroads
It is of vital importance - it has emphasized the association - that it is made I use profitable of the public money
April 3, 2017
Autorité de régulation DES activités ferroviaires ET routières (Arafer), the French authority of regulation of the rail shipments and street, has expressed to seem negative on the contract project between the State and SNCF Réseau, the authority that manages the French railway infrastructure, emphasizing that the document does not preview credible engagements for the contracting parts and that in the long term does not offer an essential vision of the railway field above all in sight of the next opening of the home market to the competition. Moreover the Arafer has expressed regret because, moreover, the contract is defined very two years from the law of reform of the railway field on August 4, 2014 whose objectives - it has evidenced the authority - are not satisfied.
The taken one of position of the Arafer is received with favor from the European Rail Freight Association (ERFA), that it has evidenced as represents "an important step in the improvement of the quality of the railway services". "When the railroads are found to face a strong competition by other modalities of transport, in particular of the street transport - it has found the association - is of vital importance that is made uses profitable of the public money and that effective objectives of performance to the aim are placed to reduce the costs of the railroads and to increase their attrattività".
"The regulation organisms - it has observed the ERFA - must have a role key in the control of the use of the public funds in the railway field. Currently their involvement in this process happens at the discretion of the Member States. The prompt ERFA the Member States to use this possibility in order to guarantee to benefit from greater the investments in the railway field".
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Autorité de régulation DES activités ferroviaires ET routières (Arafer), the French authority of regulation of the rail shipments and street, has expressed to seem negative on the contract project between the State and SNCF Réseau, the authority that manages the French railway infrastructure, emphasizing that the document does not preview credible engagements for the contracting parts and that in the long term does not offer an essential vision of the railway field above all in sight of the next opening of the home market to the competition. Moreover the Arafer has expressed regret because, moreover, the contract is defined very two years from the law of reform of the railway field on August 4, 2014 whose objectives - it has evidenced the authority - are not satisfied.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
