S.L. 499.65 Art. 2Scope and applicability.

(1) These regulations concern the criteria applicable to the issuing, renewal, amendment, suspension and revocation of licences required for the provision of rail transport services by railway undertakings which are or will be established in the European Union.

(2) The following are excluded from the scope of these regulations:

(a) undertakings which only operate rail passenger services on local and regional stand-alone railway infrastructure;

(b) undertakings which only operate urban or suburban rail passenger services;

(c) undertakings which only operate regional rail freight services;

(d) undertakings which only operate freight services on privately owned railway infrastructure that exists solely for use by the infrastructure owner for its own freight operations;

(e) undertakings the business of which is limited to providing shuttle services for road vehicles through undersea tunnels or to transport operations in the form of shuttle services for road vehicles through such tunnels.

*not yet in force.