Council Directive 96/48/EC of 23 July 1996 on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system ( 3 ) and Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system ( 4 ) were substantially amended by Directive 2004/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 5 ) .). As new amendments are now being introduced, it is appropriate to recast the Directives for the sake of clarity and merge their provisions together into a single instrument with a view to simplification.
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New version applies from 22/03/2011.
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Later versions: 01/04/2013, 31/03/2014, 01/01/2015.
Recital 1 changes in this version: compare with the current text.