Railway Infrastructure Usage Ordinance
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ordinance on the non-discriminatory access to the railway infrastructure and on the principles of charging for the use of the railway infrastructure |
| Short title: | Railway Infrastructure Usage Ordinance |
| Abbreviation: | EIBV |
| Type: | Federal Ordinance |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Legal matter: | Administrative law , railway law |
| References : | 930-9-9 |
| Original version from: | December 17, 1997 ( BGBl. I p. 3153 ) |
| Entry into force on: | December 24, 1997 |
| Last revision from: | June 3, 2005 ( BGBl. I p. 1566 ) |
| Entry into force of the new version on: |
August 1, 2005 |
| Expiry: | September 2, 2016 (Art. 7 G of August 29, 2016 Federal Law Gazette I pp. 2082, 2129 ) |
| GESTA : | J021 |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The Railway Infrastructure Usage Ordinance regulated the non-discriminatory network access of railway companies to public railway infrastructure until September 2016 . The regulation also provided for cross-network cooperation.
The ordinance resulted in the obligation for railway infrastructure operators to make their infrastructure available for use in a non-discriminatory manner to authorized railway undertakings for a fee. To do this, the infrastructure operator had to draw up conditions of use for the rail network. When drawing up his price lists, he had to observe the fee principles of the regulation.
The ordinance contained basic rules on how the infrastructure manager had to deal with route conflicts (i.e. competing access requests). For permanently overloaded railway lines, a graduated procedure was established by which the causes of the permanent overload could be determined and - as far as economically feasible - an increase in the railway capacity should be achieved.
The Railway Infrastructure Usage Ordinance was replaced by the Railway Regulation Act on September 2, 2016 .
