The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law on the amendments to the railway to make Railway Act (the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1998, no. 9; 1999, no. 5, 23; 2001, nr. 1; 2003, 6, 10, 23; 2004, nr. 8. No; 2005, no. 21) the following amendments: 1. Express 12. Article 10 by the following: "(10) charges for the use of railway infrastructure shall not be set : 1) body (company), which also provide rail transport services;
2) public rail infra structure Manager, who belong to the same group with railway services provider. "
2. Make article 13, third subparagraph by the following: "(3) in article 12 of this law, on the 10th, in the cases referred to in part to public charges for the use of railway infrastructure shall be determined by the public service Commission Regulation in accordance with the law" On regulators of public services "."
3. Add to article 24, the fourth subparagraph before the words "interested" by the words "Ministry of road transport and the Directorate".
4. To supplement the law with article 25.1 the following: ' article 15.6. Foreign armed forces or the national armed forces support the railway contract (1) foreign armed forces or the national armed forces in support of the proposed railway contractor on behalf of the country's Defense Ministry.
(2) foreign armed forces or the national armed forces in support of the proposed railway, on the basis of railway contracts, carriers that received industrial security certificate.
(3) foreign armed forces or the national armed forces in support of the proposed railway project contract prepared by the Subscriber. This draft of the contract with the principal carrier.
(4) Procedures for the organisation and coordination of foreign armed forces or the national armed forces support for railway public order, and the order of the conclusion of the contract and the order is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
(5) Closing a foreign armed forces or the national armed forces support the railway contract, its content is subject to this law, the provisions of article 25. "
5. Article 27: adding to the third paragraph after the words "railway order contract" with the words "including foreign armed forces or the national armed forces support";
to make a fifth by the following: "(5) the Public-use railway infrastructure capacity may be divided into body (company), which also provide rail transport services or in one group with railway services. In this case, the public railway infrastructure capacity allocation for the national railway administration. "
6. To supplement the law with article 33.1 of the following: ' article 20.6. Heavy rail accident investigation authority (1) heavy rail accident investigation activities organized, conducted and controlled by a major rail accident investigation body.
(2) Heavy rail accident investigation body of the organizational, legal, and their decision-making is independent of infrastructure managers, railway carriers and railway technical operation control and supervisory bodies as well as of the institutions responsible for rail infrastructure charging and collection, the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity or of the implementation of the public administration in the field of rail transport, and of the persons whose interests may be in conflict with the investigating authorities.
(3) the authority to comply with the first paragraph of this article, be determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. "
7. Supplement article 40 with 1.1 part as follows: "(11) heavy rail crash was a railway accident in which a train collision, or due to the train's exit from the Rails died or at least one person suffered moderate bodily harm at least five people, or caused great damage to rolling stock, railway infrastructure or the environment, as well as other similar rail accidents, which have a clearly negative impact on railway safety regulation or the management of safety. Great damage such losses are to be considered as that of major rail accident investigation body immediately assessed overall as the equivalent of at least 2 million euro to Latvian Bank official foreign currency exchange rates. "
8. Add to transitional provisions 17 and 18 with the following: "17. Cabinet of Ministers until July 1, 2006 to manage this law, in the fourth paragraph of article 25.1 the provisions.
18. This law and article 40 article 20.6 1.1 part shall enter into force on 30 April 2006. "
9. Add to the informative reference to directives of the European Union with paragraph 8 by the following: ' 8) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004, Directive 2004/49/EC on safety on the community's railways and amending Council Directive 95/18/EC on the licensing of railway undertakings and Directive 2001/14/EC on railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure and safety certification (railway safety directive) amendment. "
The law shall enter into force on 1 January 2006.
The Parliament adopted the law in 2005 to 24 November.
State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga 2005 December 7 Editorial Note: the law shall enter into force on January 1, 2006.