PART 1GENERAL
Scope4
1
Subject to paragraph (2), these Regulations apply in relation to the licensing of railway undertakings which provide train services and are established or to be established in an EEA State.
2
These Regulations do not apply in relation to a railway undertaking whose activity is limited to any of the following—
a
operating rail passenger services on local and regional stand-alone railway infrastructure;
b
operating urban or suburban rail passenger services;
c
the provision of regional rail freight services that are not covered by the scope of Council Directive 91/440/EEC dated 29th July 1991 on the development of the Community's railways M1;
d
carrying out freight operations on privately owned railway infrastructure that exists solely for use by the infrastructure owner for its own freight operations; or
e
providing shuttle services for road vehicles through the Channel Tunnel.