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26.—(1) Where, after the coordination of requests for capacity and consultation with the applicants in accordance with regulation 23(4), it is not possible for the infrastructure manager to satisfy requests for infrastructure capacity adequately, the infrastructure manager must declare that element of the railway infrastructure on which such requests cannot be satisfied to be congested.
(2) Where, during the preparation of the working timetable for the next timetable period, the infrastructure manager considers that an element of the railway infrastructure is likely to become congested during the period to which that working timetable relates, the infrastructure manager must declare that element of the railway infrastructure to be congested.
(3) When railway infrastructure has been declared to be congested under the provisions of this regulation the infrastructure manager must inform—
(a)existing users of that railway infrastructure;
(b)new applicants for infrastructure capacity which includes that element of the railway infrastructure which has been declared to be congested;
(c)the Office of Rail and Road;
(d)the Secretary of State; and
(e)where any element of the railway infrastructure which has been declared to be congested is in Scotland, Scottish Ministers.
(4) Where railway infrastructure has been declared to be congested in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2), the infrastructure manager must undertake a capacity analysis of the congested infrastructure, as described in regulation 27, unless a capacity enhancement plan, as described in regulation 28, is in the process of being implemented.
(5) When an element of the railway infrastructure has been declared to be congested in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2) and either—
(a)a charge as described in paragraph 1(8) of Schedule 3 has not been levied; or
(b)the charge described in sub-paragraph (a) has been levied but has not achieved a satisfactory result,
the infrastructure manager may set priority criteria for the allocation of infrastructure capacity which includes that congested element of the railway infrastructure.
(6) The priority criteria referred to in paragraph (5) must—
(a)take account of the importance of a service to society, relative to any other service which will consequently be excluded; and
(b)ensure that freight services, and in particular international freight services, are given adequate consideration in the determination of those criteria.
(7) For the purposes of paragraph (6) an international freight service is a transport service where all wagons of the train cross [F1the border between the United Kingdom and the European Union]; the train may be joined or split and the different sections of the train may have different origins and destinations.
(8) If during the course of the working timetable period to which the declaration of congested infrastructure relates, but before the completion of the capacity analysis, the congestion is resolved, the infrastructure manager may revoke the declaration made in accordance with paragraph (1).
(9) Where paragraph (8) applies, the infrastructure manager must inform the persons described in paragraph (3) that the declaration has been revoked.
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