1. Dipl.-Pol. Oliver Mietzsch, Transport Unit, German Association of Cities CEMR-Seminar „The Organization and Financing of Local Public Transport in the EU“, Brussels, 17th November 2005 Questions to be addressed: How is local public transport organized? Who is responsible for the organization of public transport at the different territorial levels? What kind of relation ties the operators to the public authorities – Direct award or tendering? How is local public transport financed? How is European legislation applied? Consequences of the new Draft regulation?

2. Dipl.-Pol. Oliver Mietzsch, Transport Unit, German Association of Cities CEMR-Seminar „The Organization and Financing of Local Public Transport in the EU“, Brussels, 17th November 2005 -Responsibilty for the organization of local public transport is split according to the mode of transport: Bus, tram and underground services are organized by the municipalities, rail services by the regions. -In some regions however, the region is responsible for regional rail and regional bus services, whereas the municipality is responsible for local rail and local bus services. -In most conurbations rail services are organized by groupings of municipal or even regional authorities, sometimes this also goes for bus services

3. Dipl.-Pol. Oliver Mietzsch, Transport Unit, German Association of Cities CEMR-Seminar „The Organization and Financing of Local Public Transport in the EU“, Brussels, 17th November 2005 -According to German Public Transportation law direct award is possible if the transport service does not need public funding. -However: The definition of self-economical traffic includes funding of the owner of a public operator. -As a result, hardly any local traffic services have been tendered yet (this goes at least for the big cities with their own enterprises).

4. Dipl.-Pol. Oliver Mietzsch, Transport Unit, German Association of Cities CEMR-Seminar „The Organization and Financing of Local Public Transport in the EU“, Brussels, 17th November 2005 -If, however, a traffic service if officially financed by public funds, it has to be fincanced according to Regulation 1191 (public service contract) and, due to German law, tendered out on the base of the Public Procurement Directives. -Whether the contracts are awarded for the whole network or a single line or groups of lines has to be decided by the competent authority. -The larger the network, the more interfaces between different modes and operators exist, which makes direct award of the whole network less feasible and reasonable.

5. Dipl.-Pol. Oliver Mietzsch, Transport Unit, German Association of Cities CEMR-Seminar „The Organization and Financing of Local Public Transport in the EU“, Brussels, 17th November 2005 -Public transport is mostly supported by public funds, be it directly on the base of Regulation 1191 or indirectly by the owner of a public enterprise. -In cities, public transport often belongs to local public utilities groups and is thus cross-subsidized by the earnings of the Energy section (in fiscal regards almost 1,4 billion Euro per year).

6. Dipl.-Pol. Oliver Mietzsch, Transport Unit, German Association of Cities CEMR-Seminar „The Organization and Financing of Local Public Transport in the EU“, Brussels, 17th November 2005 -If the new Draft regulation would become reality, the differenziation between self-economical traffic and public service contracts would be rendered obsolet, since there is no public traffic which does not either rely on public funding or is based on exclusive rights for the operator.