is the dominant railway operator in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

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The company was founded when the former state-owned operator was divided into several units based on the requirements laid down by the European Union

European Union

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. PKP SA is the dominant company in PKP Group

PKP Group

PKP Group is a Polish conglomerate founded in 2001 from the former single national rail operator, Polskie Koleje Państwowe. The purpose of this change was to match European Union directives of dividing transport service from rail system management and founding separate companies able to sell their...

 collective that resulted from the split, and maintains in 100 % share control, being fully responsible for management of all of the other PKP Group component companies. The group's organisations are dependent upon PKP SA, but proposals for privatisation have been made.

In Poland there are 23429 kilometres (14,558 mi) of railway tracks managed by PKP SA and owned by the state.
The pricing system currently employed by PKP is highly regressive.