Fees : The French Supreme Administrative Court states that the negative binding opinion of the French rail traffic regulator related to the fees of "Gares & Connexions" is legal (SNCF Mobilités)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. SNCF Mobilités, a public industrial and commercial establishment responsible for operating the network which is part of the SNCF group, sought the annulment of the opinion of 17 February 2015 of the Autorité de régulation des activités ferroviaires et routières (ARAFER) on the draft charges for services provided by Gares & Connexions, an autonomous branch of SNCF Mobilités, in passenger stations (Opinion No 2015-005 of 17 February 2015). In the commented decision of 3 October 2016, the Conseil d'État rejected this appeal for excess of power by carrying out a normal control of the regulatory authority's opinion. The general legal framework of the dispute As