# Commission Decision of 20 October 2004 on the State aid partly implemented by France for the ‘Sernam’ company (notified under document number C(2004)3940) (Only the French text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/367/EC), Article 3

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Subject to paragraph 2, the following conditions shall be complied with:
a)) Sernam may develop only its activities to carry mail by railway in accordance with the Train Bloc Express (TBE) concept. In this regard, SNCF guarantees that it will offer to any other operator who so requests the same conditions as those granted to Sernam to develop TBE freight transport by rail.
b)) In return, Sernam shall, in the next two years as from the day on which this Decision in notified, fully replace its own road transport resources and services by road transport resources and services of one or more companies that are legally and economically independent of SNCF and are chosen in accordance with an open, transparent and non-discriminatory procedure.
Sernam’s own road transport resources and services means all of the road resources – i.e. road transport vehicles – of the Sernam company of which it has full ownership or which it leases or rents.
The companies that take over Sernam’s road activities shall perform the road transport services using their own resources.
2. In the event that Sernam sells its assets en bloc by […]at market price through a transparent and open procedure to a company that has no legal link with SNCF, the conditions of paragraph 1 shall not be applicable.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/367/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-367/article-3
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