Text tabled : A7-0367/2011

  Catherine Grèze (Verts/ALE), in writing. – (FR) I voted against the review of directives governing the organisation and regulation of European railways, because the risk of rail transport being dismantled can only be a cause for concern for the future. A truly objective assessment needs to be carried out by the Commission between now and late 2012 on the question of a complete separation between railway undertakings and infrastructure managers. Regarding rail services and equipment maintenance, we Greens cannot accept the Union obliging incumbent railway undertakings to sacrifice maintenance of their own equipment to new entrants, as it would compromise the ability of incumbent operators to fulfil their public service remit.