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The prohibition laid down in Article 2 shall not apply to agreements, decisions or concerted practices the object and effect of which is to apply technical improvements or to achieve technical co-operation by means of: (a) the standardisation of equipment, transport supplies, vehicles or fixed installations; the exchange or pooling, for the purpose of operating transport services, of staff, equipment, vehicles or fixed installations; the organisation and execution of successive, complementary, substitute or combined transport operations, and the fixing and application of inclusive rates and conditions for such operations, including special competitive rates; the use, for journeys by a single mode of transport, of the routes which are most rational from the operational point of view; the co-ordination of transport timetables for connecting routes; the grouping of single consignments; the establishment of uniform rules as to the structure of tariffs and their conditions of application, provided such rules do not lay down transport rates and conditions.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-21 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.