Access to data for journey planning of passenger rail transport services and to tariff data
Article 6
1. Each passenger railway undertaking, or, where relevant, the competent authority as defined in Article 2, point (b), of Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 36 ) , or the data holder, shall grant public and free of charge access to data specified in points 4.2.1 and 4.4 of the Annex regarding the passenger timetable of the rail transport service that it operates and for corresponding conditions of carriage, respectively. Access shall be granted at least via the national access points in accordance with the specifications and access conditions set out in the Annex. 2. Each station manager, or, where relevant, the infrastructure manager or another entity designated by one of them or by the Member State, as data holder, shall grant public and free of charge access to data specified in point 4.2.2 of the Annex regarding connection times between access nodes. Access shall be granted at least via the national access points in accordance with the specifications and access conditions set out in the Annex. 3. Where a passenger railway undertaking, or where relevant the data holder, has rights or obligations deriving from contractual provisions to grant access to its tariff data that access shall be granted to all its tariffs at least via the national access points in accordance with the specifications and access conditions set out in point 4.3 of the Annex. Additional terms and conditions for direct access to and commercial use of that data may be agreed on a contractual basis. 4. Where a distributor has rights or obligations deriving from contractual provisions to access availability and reservation data of the rail products of a passenger railway undertaking, including for yielded prices, that access shall be granted by that railway undertaking at least through a direct connection to its attributing system in accordance with the specifications set out in point 4.5 of the Annex. Additional terms and conditions for direct access to and use of that data shall be agreed on a contractual basis. 5. This Article shall apply in addition to the obligations set out in Article 4.