2024-04-10 12:29:51
And concessionaires will be able to manage the railway infrastructure, apart from NKŽI. This is what the deputies voted for in the first reading with changes to the railway transport law.
If they are adopted, the monopoly of the National Railway Infrastructure Company (NRI) will end, giving the company the right to transfer activities to other enterprises.
The executive agency “Railway Administration” should be designated as a regulatory body in the rail transport sector, without prejudice to the powers of the Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC).
The amendments have been proposed in connection with the criminal proceedings initiated against Bulgaria due to incorrectly transposed texts from European normative acts into the national legislation. The criminal procedure is at the second stage, i.e. reasoned opinion. If our country does not take measures, the European Commission (EC) will file a case in the EU Court of Justice.
The right is also given to NKJI to transfer activities of development, maintenance and renewal of railway infrastructure and related tasks to railway undertakings or companies that control a railway undertaking or are controlled by a railway undertaking without conflict of interest arising.