In accordance with the Act CLXXXIII of 2005 on Railway Transport and the Joint Decree of the Minister of Economy and Transport and the Minister of Finance No. 83/2007 (X.6.) GKM-PM on determination of network access charges and on charging principles, the Railway Capacity Allocation Office (VPE) is assigned to settle the access charges applied by integrated/non-independent railway undertakings.

According to the 13th Paragraph of the Decree on charging, to prepare a document on the methodology of assessing charges in every five years is the task of the Charging Body. The document is called Charging Methodology.

The actual access charges concerning the given timetable year are set out by the charge determining organisation on basis of the Charging Methodology, the factual data of the Infrastructure Manager’s last business year, other data sources stated in the Charging Methodology, and the measure of expected central budgetary support. All data and detailed calculations used in setting out access charges are set in the Charging Document.

The first version of the Charging Methodology was published on 29 August 2008.