Review article
Regulatory Reform of the Public Passenger Transport System According to the European Union Regulations
Branko Korže
; Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The author of this article studies the boundaries of competences of the European Union in the field of public passenger transport regulation. It has been established that the European Union is limited only to competition protection in the EU single market and that member states are fully competent to regulate public passenger transport in compliance with their sovereign rights and responsibilities for exercising the human right to mobility. In its nature public passenger transport is a “merit good” (mixed public-private good), a commodity that can be provided in an optimal way under the condition that the state establishes mechanisms for balancing economic goals with other social goals (social values) when regulating and implementing public passenger transport. Member states can accomplish this task only by disregarding the requirements imposed by the EU in legal and political reform acts when individual social goals can be achieved only by an intervention in the economic functions of competition. The author justifies a legitimate right to waive on the bases of the legal system.
Keywords
integration of public passenger transport; human right to mobility; reform of the system in the EU member state
Hrčak ID:
139675
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2015.
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