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The aim of this Directive is to facilitate the adoption of the Community railways to the needs of the Single Market and to increase their efficiency; -by ensuring the management independance of railway undertakings; -by separating the management of railway operation and infrastructure from the provision of railway transport services, separation of accounts being compulsory and organizational or institutional separation being optional, -by improving the financial structure of undertakings, -by ensuring access to the networks of Member states for international groupings of railway undertakings and for railway undertakings engaged in the international combined transport of goods.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-29 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.