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The Bulgarian Parliament has deliberated the liberalization of the rail shipment of passengers
Understood the directives of the fourth railway package of the EU
February 25, 2019
From next the 16 june the fleeting services of rail shipment in Bulgaria could be practised also from companies of the European Union. Friday, in fact, the Bulgarian Parliament has approved of in second reading amendments to the legislation in railway matter that preview the liberalization of the field assuring to other nations of the European Union approached the Bulgarian railway infrastructure, so adapting the national norm to previewed how much from directives 797, 798 and 2370 of 2016 of the EU, that they constitute so-called "the fourth railway package" and that they concern respective the interoperability of the railway system of the EU, safety of the railroads and, exactly, the opening of the market of the services of national rail shipment of passengers and the governance of the railway infrastructure. The term for the recepimento of the new European norms in the national legislations is fixed in order on June 16, 2019.
The activity of rail shipment of passengers on the Bulgarian territory is however object of a contract of public service undersigned from the State with the railway group public Bulgarian BDZ who will expire in 2024.
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