reg 12 Business Plans
(1) Each infrastructure manager must draw up a business plan which is designed for the purpose of ensuring— (a) optimal and efficient use, provision and development of the railway infrastructure; and (b) financial balance. (2) The plan referred to in paragraph (1) must— (a) include details of investment and financial programmes; (b) provide the means by which the objectives set out in paragraph (1) are to be achieved; and (c) take into account the strategy referred to in regulation 11 and the financing provided to it. (3) Before it is approved the infrastructure manager must ensure that applicants known to it and, upon their request, potential applicants have access to the relevant information and are given the opportunity to express their views on the content of the draft business plan regarding the conditions for access and use, and the nature, provision and development of the railway infrastructure. (4) Each railway undertaking must draw up a business plan, which must include its investment and financing programmes, and which is designed for the purpose of ensuring— (a) financial equilibrium; and (b) other technical, commercial and financial management objectives. (5) The plan referred to in paragraph (4) must provide the means by which the objectives set out in that paragraph are to be achieved. (6) The Office of Rail and Road must, at least once a year, request confirmation that a business plan has been produced in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (4), and each infrastructure manager or, as the case may be, railway undertaking, to whom such a request is made, is under an obligation to comply with that request. (7) For the purposes of regulation 36, a request by the Office of Rail and Road in accordance with paragraph (6) is to be treated as a request for information.