European Commission 26 March 2021, COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE EVALUATION of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/429 and the rules for noise differentiated track access charges

1 Introduction Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/429 of 13 March 2015 setting out the modalities to be followed for the application of the charging for the cost of noise effects 1 , provides Member States (hereinafter ‘the Implementing Regulation’) with the legal framework to establish a noise-differentiated track access scheme (NDTAC) for their national railway infrastructure in