1. European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM) The main actors of the international railway cooperation SIAFICourse Michael Robson Secretary General 23 April 2007 SIAFI 2007 – 23.04.2007

2. Content EIM Missions Visions Where/when do we intervene? Expected improvements Working with ERA Forthcoming issues

3. EIM Members Slovenia Sweden Finland Portugal UK BelgiumSpain The Netherlands Norway Finland France

4. EIM Created in April 2002. 12 members: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, the UK, France, Portugal, Spain and Slovenia 52% of EU25 lines 58% of EU25 rail passengers 17% of EU25 rail freight Social dimension: direct and indirect employment of over 300,000. Total investments of €14,5bn

5. EIM Our mission: Improve the development of the rail transport mode Act as a lobbying organisation towards the European Institutions and together with the industry Provide our expertise to the appropriate bodies including the European Rail Agency (ERA)

6. Our vision is to: Create an intra- and intermodal level playing field Promote the development of rail traffic Provide an efficient cost effective and open rail network Allow infrastructure managers to operate in an independent and non-discriminatory manner to facilitate optimisation of overall system cost and performance EIM

7. Where/when do we intervene (1)? EU Commission Proposal European Parliament Committee(s): report ECOSOC and committee of the Regions issue non-binding opinion (when required) European Parliament first reading (no time limit) Council adopts Common position (no time limit) No amendments by EP or Council : ACT ADOPTED All amendments by EP Accepted by the Council : ACT ADOPTED Council and EP amendments differ TO SECOND READING

8. Where/when do we intervene (2)? EP second reading (3 months) Accepts Council Common Position By absolute majority (314 votes) rejects common position By absolute majority amends common position ACT ADOPTEDACT NOT ADOPTED Commission maintains or amends its proposal Council second reading (3months) All EP’s amendments approved by QMV where Commission agrees, unanimity if Commission does not agree Rejects some of EP’s amendments Conciliation Committee (within 6 weeks) No Joint text agreedJoint text agreed (6 weeks) Joint text rejected by either EP or Council Joint text approved by Council (QMV) and EP (by majority of presents) 6 weeks ACT ADOPTED ACT NOT ADOPTED

9. The EC should carry out a case-by-case analysis for the management of the essential functions (capacity allocation, charging, services of the annexes of directive 2001/14) and launch infringement procedures. Expected improvements: independence

10. Expected improvements: market issues The use of the notion of authorised applicants A fair level playing field for infrastructure charging should be reached Regulatory bodies should be independent and accessible Facilities of Annex II of Directive 2001/14/EC Locos and drivers’ availability

11. EIM working with the ERA Hans Kuijlen Safety Expert Working with the European Rail Agency (ERA) EIM is entitled to propose experts that represent EIM and its members in working groups of the European Railway Agency (ERA). EIM has put in place an organisation to support the representatives in the Agency working groups. This organisation has to ensure that the representatives are properly briefed, mandated and supported by the EIM team.

12. European Railway Agency European Railway Agency (http://www.era.eu.int) Established in 2005; Corrigendum to Regulation (EC) No 881/2004 Mandates: –Technical Specifications for Interoperability –System Authority for ERTMS (ETCS, GSM-R) –Safety Organisation: –Interoperability –ERTMS –Safety –Economical Evaluation

13. EIM policy and objectives for the ERA Policy and objectives in the work for ERA: Goals Develop and maintain an internal efficient process for promoting EIM’s positions in the ERA working process Establish EIM as a partner for European standardisation bodies Lead the implementation of the TSIs: ERTMS, SEDP for TSI TAF …

14. EIM ERA Support Group EIM ERA SG Mechanical Interfaces EIM Delegates EIM ERA Secretariat ERA WG CST EIM ERA SG Safety EIM ERA SG Safety EIM ERA SG Electrical Interfaces EIM ERA ERTMS ERA WG CSM ERA WG CSI ERA WG Safety Certification ERA WG TSI Infra ERA WG TSI Energy ERA WG TSI TAP ERA WG Wagons ERA WG Passenger Carriages ERA WG Traction Units ERA WG Certification of Maintenance Workshops ERA WG Registration of Rolling Stock ERA WG ERTMS CCB ERA WG ERTMS CCM ERA WG ERTMS System version Management EIM ERA Organisational Chart ERA Interoperability ERA ERTMS ERA Safety EIM ERA Sub Group EIM ERA Support Group Legend EIM organisation in the work for ERA

15. Forthcoming issues Dedicated freight network: a pragmatic approach better than a lyric vision Security: unfortunately rail market share is very low, so are the risks, the effort should not be put on rail first and rail infrastructure in particular TEN agency: an executive agency officially announced by the European Commission ERTMS implementation and financing: the first in, first serve procedure is probably not the most efficient Third Railway Package: Passengers rights and obligations

16. Forthcoming issues Improvement of logistic chains: Transport White Paper, development of intermodality and co-modality EU budget revision: develop a transport policy with its own financing means Infrastructure charging methodology: the best is the enemy of the good. A too sophisticated method is not needed: charging at social marginal cost is close to fees collected equal maintenance expenditures.

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