Data sharing between telematics stakeholders and rights to access data
Article 4
1. Where telematics stakeholders involved in the same rail transport services and related processes referred to in Article 2(1) have rights or obligations deriving from legal or contractual provisions for those processes, they shall grant each other access for use or share the data specified in the Annex that are necessary to carry out those processes. Except for the processes referred to in Article 2(1), point (c)(i), the rights and obligations referred to in the first subparagraph may also result from the operational responsibility in those processes, of any entity involved. 2. Upon reasoned request of the Commission, a Union body or a public sector body, telematics stakeholders that hold data specified in the Annex shall grant free of charge direct access to specific raw data for one of the following purposes: (a) the monitoring of the establishment of the single European rail area or the trans-European transport network; (b) the development of rail interoperability and safety in the Union; (c) the monitoring or auditing of the flow of passengers or freight in the Union.