Article 3 — Impartiality of the infrastructure manager in respect of capacity and traffic management, including maintenance planning

1. Infrastructure managers shall carry out the functions of capacity and traffic management, including maintenance planning in an equitable, transparent and non-discriminatory manner. The persons in charge of taking decisions in respect of those functions shall not be affected by any conflict of interest. 2. Infrastructure managers shall respect the commercial confidentiality of information provided to them, in accordance with Union and national law, including, where appropriate, by anonymising the information shared with other parties. 3. As regards traffic management, infrastructure managers shall ensure that operational stakeholders, in cases of disruption concerning those stakeholders, have full and timely access to relevant information. Where the infrastructure manager grants access to the traffic management process, it shall do so for the operational stakeholder concerned in an equitable, transparent and non-discriminatory manner. 4. As regards capacity management and the long-term planning of major maintenance, renewal and upgrade of the railway infrastructure, the infrastructure manager shall consult applicants, as defined in Article 3, point (19), of Directive 2012/34/EU, in accordance with this Regulation and shall take the utmost account of the concerns expressed by those applicants.