Notable Elements Of The New Rail Industry Act

The recent Act 38/2015 of 29 September 2015 concerning the Rail Industry satisfies various requirements: on the one hand, the need to implement Directive 2012/34 EU, Recast, of the European Parliament and the European Council, by which a single European railway area is established, which consolidates in one document the directives of the first package of rail measures, and on the other, the incorporation of numerous tweaks and alterations to Act 39/2003 of 17 November.

Thus, in the pursuit of legal stability, the legislator has chosen to unify in a single text the legal regime governing rail transport, albeit with many tenets of the Act 39/2003 being retained on identical terms.