Railway activities : The French Competition Authority delivers its opinion on the project relating to separation of accounts for the historical operator’s infrastructure activities

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 11 July 2014, the competition authority issued an opinion No. 14-A-09 relating to the proposed accounting separation of SNCF's infrastructure activity. It was called upon to give its opinion pursuant to Article L. 2133-4 of the French Transport Code, which provides that "the authority regulating railway activities shall approve, after obtaining the opinion of the competition authority, the rules for the accounting separation provided for in Articles L. 2122-4, L. 2123-1, L. 2144-1 and L. 2144-2, the allocation rules, the accounting perimeters and the principles governing the financial relations between the activities that are separated for accounting