The Rail Passenger Rights Regulation 2021 (EU) 2021/782 gives railway passengers basic rights in EU law to refunds and minimum levels of service.

As a regulation, it has mandatory application without the need for implementing legislation.

Before this many countries, such as the United Kingdom, had no rights set in law for rail passengers.

The Regulation creates minimum rights which every member state law, and every rail undertaking, may improve upon.

[1] The following is a summary of the Regulation's provisions: