Transport and travel

This overview is a guide to the content within the Regulatory (EU Law) subtopic with links to the appropriate materials. This subtopic examines EU regulations and directives which regulate the transport and travel sectors.

Introductory materials

To keep up to date with the changes in the travel and transport sector, see Practice Note: Travel/Transport—EU Regulatory tracker which tracks and summarises EU regulatory legislation guidance and other ongoing policy developments applicable to the transport and travel sector. More specifically, this tracker covers all live, closed and upcoming consultations, evaluations and proposals related to guidance, code of practice and legislation in this sector.

Practice Notes: Lexology Panoramic: Air Transport and Lexology Panoramic: Rail Transport provides an overview of the Air and Rail transport regulations in the EU as well as key EU Member States such as Belgium, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

Automated vehicles

An automated (or autonomous) vehicle (AV), is a vehicle with a collection of systems which remove the need for a human driver to control or even monitor functions such as steering, braking and acceleration and

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