Press Release: Commission warns Member States over lack of implementation of the ‘first rail package’

The European Commission sent reasoned opinions to 21 Member States on 8 October 2009 regarding their failure to implement properly the legislation called 'first railway package'. Important issues remain to be solved for opening up the railway markets to competition in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia and Slovakia.