Rights of passengers in bus and coach transport; cooperation between national authorities

The Council rejected the European Parliament's second-reading amendments to the draft regulation on bus and coach passengers' rights on which the Council had agreed in its first-reading position in March 2010. This means that a conciliation procedure will be launched in accordance with article 294 of the Lisbon treaty. Once a meeting of a conciliation committee composed of representatives of both institutions has been convened, the committee has a maximum of eight weeks to find a compromise.