Keywords

• Admissibility
• Failure of a Member State to fulfil obligations
• Principle of sincere cooperation
• Article 4(3) TEU
• Article 258 TFEU
• Decision 2014/699/EU
• Effects of the conduct criticised on the expiry date of the time limit set in the reasoned opinion
• Ongoing effects on the unity and consistency of the European Union’s international action
• Sufficiency of the measures taken by the Member State concerned in order to comply with the reasoned opinion
• Vote by the Federal Republic of Germany against the Union position laid down in Decision 2014/699/EU at the 25th session of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) Revision Committee and opposition expressed by that Member State against that position and the arrangements for the exercise of voting rights as defined in that decision.