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The European Union aims to ensure that road transport rules are applied effectively and without discrimination. The current rules governing the access to the international market for coach and bus services appear to have been only partly effective in promoting this mode of transport. There are still differences in rules on access to national markets, differences in openness of national markets, diverse national access arrangements and discrimination in access to terminals in some EU countries. In ...

This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's impact assessment (IA) accompanying the above mentioned proposal, submitted on 8 November 2017 and referred to Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism. Bus and coach transport is an economical, efficient and sustainable mode of transport that can contribute to reducing emissions and to improving accessibility for citizens with low income or living in isolated and low population density ...

Regulation 1073/2009 lays down the rules applicable to access to the international market for coach and bus services. Research of available documentation shows that there are various challenges to the present system that limit harmonisation in this particular field, including differences in rules on access to national markets across Member States, different openness of national markets and diverse national arrangements negatively influencing free provision of services in the field of transport. The ...

Le succès commercial et la grande popularité des services proposés par des entreprises telles qu'Uber soulèvent de nombreuses questions pour les législateurs, aussi bien aux États-Unis qu'au sein de l'Union européenne. La principale difficulté est de déterminer si ces applications ou plates-formes en ligne doivent exclusivement leur succès à leur caractère innovant ou si elles exploitent des failles dans la réglementation. Les citoyens et les organisations de consommateurs se demandent si les réponses ...