{"id":319177,"date":"2025-11-19T21:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=67468"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:19:33","slug":"capacity-regulation-agreement-sees-rail-freight-fears-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=319177","title":{"rendered":"Capacity Regulation agreement sees rail freight fears come true"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EU\u2019s Council and Parliament have come to a provisional agreement on the much-anticipated Capacity Regulation. A step forward for international rail freight, one should think, but disappointments are right around the corner.<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Just two weeks ago, an alliance of stakeholders warned that the Capacity Regulation, in its state at the time, would leave European rail \u201cfragmented\u201d. The lion\u2019s share of the problems concerned the so-called European Frameworks, which were supposed to harmonise capacity allocation on the rail network, traffic and crisis management and performance reviews of national infrastructure managers.<\/p>\n

In the latest version of the Regulation, those infrastructure managers would have to agree among themselves on the implementation of those frameworks. The stakeholders criticised that plan, saying that this could have been done earlier and without the provisions in the Capacity Regulation. In other words, the impact of the provisions in the Regulation are not nearly as helpful as they could be.<\/p>\n