16/03/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Rail and Infrastructure Companies organisation (CER) has requested additional measures to be taken to accompany the opening up to competition of the railway sector. CER Executive Director Johannes Ludewig explained that “market opening is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for a harmonious development of rail transport in Europe”. He also explained that it was more than likely that liberalisation would only have positive effects in member states that had a sufficiently consolidated railway sector and which fulfilled certain conditions such as the “financing of infrastructure, fair competition between modes, the eradication of historic debt, and compensation for public service obligations (PSOs)”. (A.By./transl.fl)