{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-169/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-169/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/169",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 169/2009 of 26 February 2009 applying rules of competition to transport by rail, road and inland waterway (Codified version) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-169",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Exception for technical agreements",
  "text": "1. The prohibition in imposed by section 2(1) of the Competition Act 1998 shall not apply to agreements, decisions or concerted practices the object and effect of which is to apply technical improvements or to achieve technical cooperation by means of:\n(a) the standardisation of equipment, transport supplies, vehicles or fixed installations;\n(b) the exchange or pooling, for the purpose of operating transport services, of staff, equipment, vehicles or fixed installations;\n(c) the organisation and execution of successive, complementary, substitute or combined transport operations, and the fixing and application of inclusive rates and conditions for such operations, including special competitive rates;\n(d) the use, for journeys by a single mode of transport, of the routes which are most rational from the operational point of view;\n(e) the coordination of transport timetables for connecting routes;\n(f) the grouping of single consignments;\n(g) the establishment of uniform rules as to the structure of tariffs and their conditions of application, provided such rules do not lay down transport rates and conditions.\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/93), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 3(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/93), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 3(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/169/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:37.832203+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."
}