{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-2005/schedule",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-2005/schedule.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3207",
  "legislation_title": "The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/channel-tunnel-international-arrangements-order-2005",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "INTERNATIONAL ARTICLES",
  "text": "THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the French Republic concerning the construction and operation by private concessionaires of a Channel Fixed Link signed at Canterbury on 12 February 1986 (“the Treaty”), and in particular its Articles 1 and 10;\nHaving regard to Council Directive 91/440/EEC of 29 July 1991, as amended by Directives 2001/12/EC of 26 February 2001, 2004/51/EC of 29 April 2004, both of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directive 2006/103/EC of 20 November 2006 and Directive 2007/58/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007, on the development of the Community’s railways and, in particular, its Article 10(3);\nHaving regard to Council Directive 95/18/EC of 19 June 1995, as amended by Directives 2001/13/EC of 26 February 2001 and 2004/49/EC of 29 April 2004, both of the European Parliament and of the Council, on the licensing of railway undertakings;\nHaving regard to Directive 2001/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2001, as amended by Directives 2004/49/EC of 29 April 2004 and 2007/58/EC of 23 October 2007 both of the European Parliament and of the Council, on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity, and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure and in particular its Article 8(2) whereby for specific investment projects, infrastructure managers may set or continue to set higher charges on the basis of the long-term costs of such projects if they increase efficiency and/or cost-effectiveness and could not otherwise have been undertaken;\nHaving regard to the Regulation of the Intergovernmental Commission on the safety of the Channel Fixed Link signed in London on 24 January 2007;\nHaving regard to the quadripartite Concession signed on 14 March 1986 between the ministre de l’urbanisme, du logement et des transports representing the French State and the Secretary of State for Transport of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (together “the Principals”) on the one part, and France-Manche SA and the Channel Tunnel Group Ltd (“the Concessionaires”) on the other part (the Concession);\nConsidering the specific nature of the investment undertaken to assure the design, financing, construction and, since 1994, operation of the Channel Tunnel;\nHAS ADOPTED the following Regulation:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. content substituted (29.10.2009 except in relation to Art. 3 of the Regulation which was given the force of law on 1.1.2010 as notified in the London Gazette dated 12.3.2010 (which corrected an earlier notice dated 13.11.2009)) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2081), art. 1(2)(a)(3), Sch. (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3207/schedule",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:08.201828+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}