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The ‘Third Railway Package’, which aims principally to promote the liberalisation of international rail passenger services, contains a regulation on ‘rail passengers’ rights and obligations’.
Above all, we can state that the essential aim of this regulation is to remove any obstacles to the liberalisation of international rail passenger services which might derive from different rules on passengers’ rights and obligations in the various countries.
In addition to stressing this first point – which is the central issue – we certainly consider that it is essential to safeguard passengers’ rights, starting with the right to a public rail transport service provided by public undertakings in each country.
Reality shows that it is the liberalisation and privatisation of rail services that jeopardise passengers’ rights: they have led to a deterioration in the services offered to the public and in the conditions for passenger mobility as well as an increase in fares; they have meant the loss of hundreds of kilometres of track, station closures, a reduction in the number of workers in the rail sector and a threat to their pay and to labour rights.
This is a disastrous policy opposed by workers and the public."@en1
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