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.