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Recommendation 4 – Actions to improve high-speed rail operations for passengers
The Commission should:
1. Provide support to the rail sector to actively develop single e-ticketing solutions, including
for high-speed rail operations.
2. Monitor Member States to ensure that they take all possible measures to implement EU
rules for calculating track access charges fully and correctly, in particular in respect of the
obligation to coordinate mark-ups to facilitate cross-border high-speed rail operations.
3. In its supervisory role, hold Member States to their obligations to guarantee that market
access conditions for high-speed rail are supervised by independent bodies and that
infrastructure managers coordinate to ensure the optimum effective use of such routes.
4. Improve the information for citizens (i) with regard to punctuality data by developing
specific indicators for high-speed rail and (ii) on the basis of data already available in
Commission databases (ERADIS), with regard to information on customer service
satisfaction, by developing a standard reporting framework and methodology. The data and
results are to be disseminated in its two-yearly Rail Market Monitoring Report.
5. Strengthen intermodal competition by setting out principles requiring the external costs
of all transport modes to be adequately considered, and advocating their implementation.
Target implementation date: by the end of 2019.
This Report was adopted by Chamber II, headed by Mrs Iliana IVANOVA, Member of the
Court of Auditors, in Luxembourg at its meeting of 13 June 2018.
For the Court of Auditors
Klaus-Heiner LEHNE
President