"Therefore, we have stained a banality: the need for SNCFR's restructuring and privatization. The same need comes from an external factor: in the year 2002, the access of the railway transportation companies to national railway infrastructure in all Europe will be deregulated. This deregulation "will or won't make us competitive from the point of view of our cars and railway engines", Minister Basescu has recently said. A few weeks ago, Romanian media announced a figure - "over 10", standing for how many times the real cost of a SNCFR ticket is higher than current prices. The figure is not only sign for shameless, but for arrogance, too. It is obvious either the issuers or the consignees are not aware of the market rules. SNCFR is known to be a monopoly, on all his three dimensions: passenger and freight transportation and infrastructure. A monopoly simply doesn't have the right to talk about "real prices" as they are settled under competition terms, exclusively. Adding costs is not difficult at all, but their simple addition and division to the number of passengers represents the travel value only for ignorant people. If a ticket collector preserves the tradition of the little graft and then nobody buys tickets, SNCFR costs are skyrocketing. But to boldly design them as the real value to the honest passenger is not worth-publishing. Therefore, we have stained a banality: the need for SNCFR's restructuring and privatization. The same need comes from an external factor: in the year 2002, the access of railway transportation companies to national railway infrastructure in all Europe will be deregulated. This deregulation "will or won't make us competitive from the point of view of our cars and railway engines", Minister Basescu has recently said. To facilitate the future SNCFR's competition ambitions, the railway company was settled to be divided into three different c