Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Monopolies Commission calls for allocation of railway – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          In order to drive on the tracks, trains have to pay track access charges to the rail. But most of the trains were already part of the web itself – private competition, there is little .
     

 
                                              

 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

Government advisers have the federal government held a preferential treatment of the state-owned German rail competition on the track. The main point of criticism criticized the Monopolies Commission in its special report published on Wednesday that the web continues possess the rail network and the railway stations and look. Thus they could turn to the decisive set screws to thwart competitors on the track.


                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

Designed by the federal regulatory law to curb the market power of Deutsche Bahn rich hardly sufficient to give the competition a new impetus, wrote the government adviser.


                         
         
         
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The German Rail for rail freight market share of two thirds, in regional transport, even by around 80 percent. In long-distance traffic it is still practically a monopolist. The position on the rails was not still satisfactory, wrote the government adviser. “In recent years, there were no significant changes in the situation.” The Monopolies Commission is an independent body, the Government and the Bundestag and Bundesrat advises.


                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                      

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In the Railway Act enshrined that the panel every two years a report on the situation in the rail market to create. It is the fifth report. The Commission had repeatedly committed themselves to separate the subsidized with billions rail network of Deutsche Bahn in order to prevent discrimination and to stimulate competition. But railway and federal government reject this for years now and have also appropriate EU plans in Brussels prevented with.


                                 

 
  
 
 
 
                       

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More than 20 years after the railway reform of competition on rail is still not working correctly, complains the Monopolies Commission. And again calls for the complete separation of infrastructure and transportation division.

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