#2013-431Law on Various Provisions for Transport Infrastructure and Services
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This law updates various aspects of transportation infrastructure and services in France. It emphasizes transparency in financial reporting for railway companies, encourages regional cooperation across borders, and enforces stricter financial separation of railway operations and infrastructure management. Regional governments can form European cooperations for transborder rail services, and operational shifts reflect in changed tax structures and local responsibilities.
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Key Changes
- Encourages regional cross-border railway cooperation
- Requires separate financial reporting for railway operations and infrastructure
- Abolishment of certain tax provisions and compensatory measures
Obligations
What this law requires
Railway companies exercising both railway service operations and infrastructure management activities must file separate profit and loss accounts and separate balance sheets with the commercial register, distinguishing elements related to service operations from infrastructure management.
SNCF must identify passenger transport activity by each convention concluded with a transport organizing authority (outside Île-de-France region) in exploitation accounts.
SNCF must transmit to each transport organizing authority by June 30 annually: detailed exploitation accounts for the previous calendar year, line-by-line details, service quality analysis, and an annex for assessing regional passenger transport operating conditions.
Regional governments may join a European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation for organizing cross-border regional rail passenger services, subject to conditions in general territorial collectivities code and applicable treaties.
New railway stations and renovations of existing stations must include creation of secure parking areas for bicycles as part of transportation infrastructure connection improvements.