1. UNECE Inland Transport Committee Working Party on Intermodal Transport and Logistics
Sixteenth session
Geneva, 23 – 24 November 2017
Cesare Brand
Secretary General

2. The CIT
130 railway undertakings and maritime companies as full members
6 associated members
Association under Swiss law with legal personality
Objectives:
Implementation of the COTIF and European law that has an impact upon transport law
Standardisation of the contractual relationship between carriers and between carriers and their customers for passenger and freight traffic
Representation of its members’ interests with the authorities and other organisations
The CIT is an association bringing together more than 200 railway undertakings and maritime companies (around 130 full members and more than 80 members through the associated members: VöV, TBNE, IVT, VDV, Eurail, ATOC).
Its headquarters, like the OTIF, are in Bern.
It covers Europe from East to West, the Black Sea region and the Maghreb.
Members are all railway undertakings performing international carriage of passengers and/or goods.
Railway undertakings with historical rolling stock and new entrants are members, too.
The members are based in EU Member States or States outside the EU.
The CIT helps to implement the law at the undertakings level.
These laws are mainly the international COTIF law (CIV and CIM Uniform Rules) but also European laws that have an impact on transport law (i.e. the Regulation concerning passenger rights).
CIT’s helps to achieve increased efficiency and cost savings thanks to legal certainty and standardisation.
Because membership is limited to railway undertakings (i.e. no infrastructure managers) it is able to effectively represent the interest of RU.

3. CIT – International Rail Transport Committee
Agenda Item 2: Workshops –Railways, Intermodal Transport and the Digitalisation of Transport Documents
1. Work of CIT in the field of Multimodality
2. Digitalisation of Rail Transport Documents

4. CIT – International Rail Transport Committee
1. Work of CIT in the field of Multimodality

5. What our custumers dream of

6. Reality CMR CIM SMGS Montréal Geneva Convention 1980 on multimodality
Hague,
Visby,
Rotterdam
Rules
CMNI
CMR
CIM
SMGS
Montréal
Geneva Convention 1980 on multimodality

7. COTIF: “Rail +” approach
CIM Art. 1 §3 / CIV Art. 1 §2 : When international carriage being the subject of a single contract includes carriage by road or inland waterway in Internal traffic of a Member State as a supplement to transfrontier carriage by rail, these Uniform Rules shall apply
CIM Art. 1 § 4 / CIV Art. 1 § 3: When international carriage being the subject of a single contract of carriage includes carriage by sea or transfrontier carriage by inland waterway as a supplement to carriage by rail, these Uniform Rules shall apply if the carriage by sea or inland waterway is performed on services included in the list of services provided for in Article 24 § 1 of the Convention.
Applies to multimodal transportation by rail and national road or international sea leg
For the Application of COTIF/CIM on multimodal rail/road transportation it is decisive
whether the goods are unloaded from the vehicles or not (then CIM is applicable and not CMR)
whether road-transportation is only a supplement to transfrontier carriage by rail (then CIM is applicable and not CMR)

8. Scope of application COTIF
Situation 25 July 2017
All COTIF
appendices (42)
Without CUV/CUI/
APTU/ATMF (2)
Without CIV/RID/
CUV/CUI/APTU/
ATMF (2)
Membership
suspended
Associate
Member

9. CIT Legal Solutions for Multimodal Transport: Rail-Road (I)
Scope of application CIM/CMR/SMGS

10. CIT Legal Solutions for Multimodal Transport: Rail-Road (II)
Cooperation with IRU:
Guideline comparing the legal
regimes CMR - COTIF/CIM – SMGS,
published in 2017
Comparative matrix
CMR/CIM/SMGS
– multimodal Rail-Road traffic

11. CIT Legal Solutions for Multimodal Transport: Rail-Sea (I)
GTC Rail – Sea Traffic:
to promote solution based on the
approach of the CIM
commercial models: sea carrier acts as
contractual or successive carrier
GTC joint-contracting + specialities
of sea carriages
Recommendation Status
Since 2015

12. CIT Legal Solutions for Multimodal Transport: Rail-Sea (II)
CIT Boilerplate contract for Rail-Sea traffic
Model of successive carriers: maritime
carriers can appear as successive carriers
Structure:
Objective of the contract
Obligations
Procedures related to carriage
Compensation
Applicable law, jurisdiction,
general provisions
Since 2016, DE/FR/EN/RU

13. CIT Multimodality: Further Steps
Rail – Road:
Development of Checklist for road-rail combined traffic based on practical case examples from CIT and IRU members
Examination by CIT Members and discussion with IRU
Rail – Sea:
Promotion GTC Rail-Sea Traffic
Pilots routes using boilerplate contract
Further development of multimodal solutions in the CIT Products

14. CIT – International Rail Transport Committee
2. Digitalisation of Rail Transport Documents

15. CIT: Digitalisation of Transport Documents
e-Consignment Note CIM
e-Wagon Note CUV
e-Formal Report CIT20
e-Consignment Note CIM/SMGS
Participation in the Projects:
CER-CIT-EIM-UIC: Roadmap for Digital Railways
EU Digital Transport and Logistics Forum (DTLF)
UNESCAP

16. Electronic consignment note CIM (ECN)
Publication of the four CIT Manuals on 1st of January 2017
CIT has finalised the legal and functional specifications for the e-Consignment note CIM and e-Wagon note CUV based on Art. 6 § 9 CIM and Art GCU
Publication on 1st January 2017
Implementation of the EU Customs Code by 1st May 2016
 Approval in correspondence at the CIM Committee in October 2016
and publication on 1st January 2017
Collaboration with RailData for finalising the technical specifications in the eRailFreight Project of the UIC
Judicial recognition of digital (transport) documents
In 2017: Report to the Stakeholders:
(OTIF, DG Move)  Electronic consignment note
 Judicial recognition of digital (transport) documents  Electronic formal damage report (CIT 20)

17. CIT: Electronic Wagon Note CUV
GLV-CIM / GLW-CUV:
The possibility to establish a Wagon Note CUV in an electronic form
The procedures used must be equivalent from the
functional point of view
Functional and legal requirements:
Message flows
Message Content and rights to access the data
Printer output
Disruption/Computer System Downtimes

18. CIT: Electronic Formal Report CIT20
Amending Article 42 §2 CIM for the electronic formal report
Further steps:
Working Group CIM – discussion on implementation of electronic formal report
New working sheets to the GTM-CIT for digitalisation of CIT20 (Appendix 20)
Definition of functional and legal specifications in the new Appendix 20b GTM-CIT
Integration accompanying documents to the electronic consignment note

19. CIT/OSJD: Electronic Consignment Note CIM/SMGS
Functional specifications:
updated based on the revision
of SMGS (1 January 2016)
Legal specifications:
updated in 2016
Technical specifications:
finalised on expert
level October 2017
Coming into force:
1 of January or 1 of July 2019

20. Cesare Brand
General Secretary
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