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European Union - Fourth Report Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 22 February 2005. CONTENTS Terms of Reference Abstract Chapter 1: What this report is about   Acknowledgement Recommendation to the House Chapter 2: Past trends and The Current Position of Rail Freight in the European Union Figure 1 Market Shares of Freight Transport Figure 2 Rail Freight Traffic Figure 3 Rail Freight Traffic (m. tonnes) 1982-2002 Figure 4 Rail Freight Traffic in Great Britain since 1990 Existing and proposed European legislation Chapter 3: Current Position of European Rail Freight Continued Domination by Large, Publicly-owned Operators Quality of Service Figure 5: Delays to the freight trains of members of International Union of Combined Road-Rail Transport Companies Continuing Barriers to Open Access (a) Safety certificates and operating licences (b) Access charges Physical barriers to interoperability Competition from Road Freight and Water-Borne Freight Competition from Passenger Trains for Access to the Network Risk of Over-Regulation International train drivers' licence Chapter 4: Problems with the Channel Tunnel Channel Tunnel access charges Safety requirements Chapter 5: Problems and Solutions at European Level European Union action Chapter 6: Action for the United Kingdom Government Chapter 7: Recommendations Appendix 1: Sub-Committee B (Internal Market) Appendix 2: Call for Evidence Appendix 3: List of Witnesses MINUTES OF EVIDENCE Monday 11 October 2004 Monday 18 October 2004 Monday 25 October 2004 Monday 1 November 2004 Monday 8 November 2004 Monday 15 November 2004 Written evidence Ford Motor Company Written evidence    1 Oral evidence 11 October 2004    4 Transportes Ferroviarios Especiales SA (Transfesa), Madrid Written evidence    10 Oral evidence, 11 October 2004    12 Supplementary written evidence    19 European Rail Freight Customers Platform Written evidence    23 Oral evidence, 18 October 2004    26 English Welsh & Scottish Railway Ltd Written evidence    32 Oral evidence, 18 October 2004    37 European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM) Written evidence    44 Oral evidence, 25 October 2004    46 Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) Written evidence    52 Oral evidence, 25 October 2004    60 European Rail Freight Association Written evidence    66 Oral evidence, 1 November 2004    69 Supplementary written evidence    76 Freightliner Group Written evidence    68 Oral evidence, 1 November 2004    69 Office of Rail Regulation Written evidence    77 Oral evidence, 1 November 2004    81 Director, Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, European Commission Written evidence    90 Oral evidence, 8 November 2004    93 Mr Tony McNulty MP, Minister of State, Department for Transport Written evidence    101 Oral evidence, 8 November 2004    106 Supplementary written evidence    114 Additional supplementary written evidence    114 Network Rail Written evidence    116 Oral evidence, 15 November 2004    118 Supplementary written evidence    127 WRITTEN EVIDENCE Central Railway    130 Deutsche Bahn AG    132 Environmental Freight Services Ltd    134 Eurotunnel    136 GB Railfreight Ltd    138 Mr Kelvin Hopkins MP, The Rail Freight Group    141 Kûhn & Nagel Management AG    143 Rail Freight Group    147 Réseau ferré de France    150 Swiss federal railways SBB    152 Union of Industrial and Employers Confederations of Europe (UNICE)  153 European Rail Freight Customers Platform, Supplementary written evidence    154 Note: Pages of the report are numbered in bold type; pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. References in the text of the report are as follows: (Q) refers to a question in oral evidence (p) refers to a page of written evidence

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