In her draft report on the use of rail infrastructure capacity, published on Friday 17 November, MEP Tilly Metz (Greens/EFA, Luxembourg) proposes the creation of a European body to allocate international rail capacity.
Presented in July by the European Commission (see EUROPE B13220A21) as part of the legislative ‘package’ designed to speed up the greening of freight, this new regulation aims to change the way rail is managed and improve cross-border coordination.
In the explanatory...