Member States should have the right to provide the infrastructure manager with strategic guidance, to ensure that the planning and use of railway infrastructure capacity is consistent with their general objectives and policy orientations. In particular, Member States should be able to require that the infrastructure managers implement specific timetable designs such as integrated clock-face timetables, reserve minimum volumes of capacity for certain types of traffic, and reflect national circumstances and policy priorities in the parameters of the methodology for capacity partitioning and conflict resolution. When doing so, Member States should respect the operational responsibilities of the infrastructure managers and make sure that they retain a sufficient operational margin to fulfil all their tasks and responsibilities.
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