Translation of "translation of secteur du chemin " (French → English) :

In the rail sector, assistance was provided to support the major effort the Portuguese authorities are making to modernise two railway lines (towards the North and Beira Alta) of strategic importance to Portugal, both of which form an integral part of the rail TEN.

competent authorities may decide to directly award contracts for all heavy rail, including (sub)urban rail; and Member States have a possibility of applying this Regulation to public passenger transport by inland waterways; authorities can choose to grant direct awards to small and medium sized enterprises under a threshold, of either an average annual value estimated at less than 1,7 million euro or less than 500000 km of public passenger transport services; measures obliging authorities to provide information and the motivation for their decisions to directly award contracts, thereby increasing transparency; a contract length in th ...[+++]e case of directly awarded contracts for rail of 10 years; and the possibility for competent authorities to refuse to allow operators under certain conditions to participate in the tenders they organise, if more than half of the contracts these operators have signed are not granted in accordance with the Regulation; a date of entry into force of 3 years after the publication in the Official Journal of the EU and a transition period of 12 years, allowing the public passenger transport sector in total 15 years to adapt to the new regime.

We represent some 60 members across the country, virtually the entire Canadian rail industry, in three sectors: the class one, CN and CPR; the short-line sector, of which there are approximately 40 the passenger sector, the commuter railways, GO, AMT, West Coast Express, Capital Railway, the inter-city railway, VIA; and our tourist or excursion operators who operate seasonally.

Moreover, the Danish measure will allow local rail companies to participate in the development of competition in the rail sector on equal basis with newcomers.

The European Commission has today published a report on the state of the rail sector in the European Union (EU) The report confirms the thrust of the Commission's 1996 White Paper on rail policy and underlines the radical change required to revitalise Europe's rail sector and halt the dramatic decline in market share which ultimately threatens rail's very existence beyond the next century.

- 2 - The root cause of the decline of the rail sector, for example, despite the obvious advantages that this form of transport presents, lies in its lack of flexibility in the face of the consumers' demands.