Press Release: Antitrust: Commission market tests commitments proposed by Deutsche Bahn concerning pricing system for traction current in Germany

The European Commission is inviting comments from interested parties on commitments offered by the German railway incumbent Deutsche Bahn (DB) regarding its pricing system for traction current in Germany. Traction current is electricity used to power locomotives.

DB Energie, the DB subsidiary providing traction current to railway companies, is the only traction current supplier in Germany. The Commission has concerns that DB Energie's pricing system, and in particular discounts that only railway companies of the DB Group can achieve fully, may have hampered the development of competition on the markets for rail freight and long-distance passenger transport, in breach of EU antitrust rules.