Annex III — CONTENTS OF THE EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK FOR CAPACITY MANAGEMENT REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 7

The European framework for capacity management referred to in Article 7 shall contain at least the following elements: ElementReference(s) Types and description of rail transport services to be used for the purposes of strategic capacity planning.Article 14(2) Common tools, methodologies and procedural arrangements for strategic capacity planning, including for the coordination between infrastructure managers and the consultation with stakeholders, including for the Capacity Needs Announcements.Article 14(4), Article 14(10), Article 15, Article 16, Article 19(1), Article 57 Guidelines setting out procedures and methodologies to be used for the transport market analysisArticle 17(3) Means for publication of the capacity supply plan and process for consultation with applicantsArticle 20(11) Guidelines on the definition of limits within which the infrastructure manager can propose a capacity model, or a capacity supply plan, that differs from the input receivedArticle 19(3), Article 20(7) Criteria and procedures for the allocation of pre-planned capacity included in the capacity supply plan.Article 22(4) Specifications for capacity planning objects in human-readable and in machine-readable formatArticle 22(5) Common method on the utilisation of railway infrastructure capacityArticle 23(2) Methodology for assessment and the list of parameters relating to rail transport services and socioeconomic and environmental criteria, including the list of parameters, standard parameter values, or ranges of standard valuesArticle 27(4), Article 39(4) Characteristics of capacity specificationsArticle 28(1) Ranges for threshold quotas applicable to the cancellation of unused capacity rightsArticle 29(3) Procedures and methods to coordinate the allocation of multi-network capacity rights, including minimum quality requirements.Article 30(5) Guidelines on the definition of the limits regarding the differences between capacity requests by applicants and railway infrastructure capacity proposed by infrastructure managers in the consensual conflict resolution process.Article 38(2) Guidelines for the consensual conflict resolution mechanism for conflicts including at least one multi-network capacity requestArticle 38(7) Procedures to manage changes to capacity rights after allocation.Article 41(10) Guidelines for the application of the modulation of penaltiesArticle 42(6) Guidelines for appropriate and regular consultation with interested parties regarding European and cross-border mattersArticle 57(2)