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"en.20120703.18.2-284-250"2
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"Adopting the recast of the first railway package will improve international rail transport. It is extremely important to begin regulating the railway market efficiently. Passengers and businesses involved in the transportation of goods and people should benefit from this.
However, the rejection of the amendment excluding Poland’s Broad Gauge Metallurgical Railway Line from some of the directive’s provisions is worrying. This line is the longest broad-gauge railway in the European Union. It runs 400 km from Poland’s border with Ukraine at Hrubieszów to Sławków railway station in Upper Silesia. This non-electrified single-track route, which uses a Russian broad-gauge track, is one of only a few broad-gauge railways anywhere in the Union, and the general provisions of the package do not take this kind of railway into account.
I regret that the majority of fellow Members did not demonstrate an appreciation of the specific nature of this railway. The final text of the recast railway package may be detrimental to the operation of the line, which has 1 300 employees. However, in view of the package’s other provisions, which I welcome, I decided to vote for its adoption. It is a document which will help develop the international railway transportation market."@en1
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