Licensing of Railway Undertakings (Amendment) Regulations, 2018

L.N. 315 of 2018

AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORT IN MALTA ACT

(CAP. 499)

Licensing of Railway Undertakings (Amendment) Regulations, 2018

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by Article 43 of the

Authority for Transport in Malta Act, the Minister responsible for

Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects, in consultation with the

Authority for Transport in Malta, has made the following

Regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Licensing of Railway

Undertakings (Amendment) Regulations, 2018 and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Licensing of Railway

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 1 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(2) These regulations implement the provisions of

(a) Chapter III of Directive 2012/34/EU of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November

2012 establishing a single European railway area (recast);

and

(b) Directive (EU) 2016/2370 of the European

Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2016

amending Directive 2012/34/EU as regards the opening of

the market for domestic passenger transport services by rail

and the governance of the railway infrastructure.".

In paragraph (d) of regulation 9 of the principal regulations,

the words "customs procedures." shall be substituted by the words

"customs procedures;" and immediately thereafter there shall be added

the following new paragraph

"(e) they have not been convicted of serious offences

resulting from obligations arising in terms of the law from

binding collective agreements, where applicable.".

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