European Social Partner Agreement on Women in Rail

Friday, 5 November 2021

On 5 November, the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), representing railway sector employers, and the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF), representing railway workers, officially signed the Women in Rail autonomous agreement aimed at promoting employment...

COP26 - Message to Glasgow

Thursday, 4 November 2021

Rail is the most sustainable mode of motorised transport today, already avoiding millions of tons of CO2.

Joint Vision for the Sector on Digital Capacity Management

Monday, 4 October 2021

The following Joint Vision, endorsed by CER alongside RailNetEurope (RNE), Forum Train Europe (FTE), the Rail Freight Forward initiative (RFF), the European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM), the European Rail Freight Association (ERFA) and the International Union of Railways (UIC), lays the ...

Sector Stakeholder Statement on International Rail Passenger Services

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Declaration by the European social partners in the railway sector ETF and CER on the Covid-19 pandemic

Thursday, 3 December 2020

On 3 December, at a plenary session of the Sectoral Social Dialogue (SSD) Committee for Rail, CER and social partners ETF agreed on a joint declaration about the situation of railways including railway workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

EU rail sector declaration on traction energy metering and settlement

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

This CER, EIM, EPTTOLA, ERFA, NB-Rail, UIC sector Declaration expresses how the rail sector wants to be compliant with European Regulation. It includes timings on fulfilling requirements from Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/868.

Follow-up to the Sector Statement on Rail Freight Corridors

Monday, 21 September 2020

In 2016 Ministers of Transport signed the so-called ‘Rotterdam Declaration’ in support of the development of international rail freight transport and in particular the Rail Freight Corridors. Following this, the sector identified ten priorities in a...

Joint statement of the rail sector on the forthcoming Strategy for Sustainable and Smart Mobility

Monday, 29 June 2020

Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, CER together with the association of the European rail infrastructure managers (EIM) and the association of the European rail supply industry (UNIFE) reaffirm their readiness to work together with the European Commission, European Parliament and Member States...

Karima Delli and the rail freight transport sector call on the Commission and Member States to foster modal shift

Thursday, 28 May 2020

Following a first videoconference meeting on 5 May 2020, Karima Delli, the chairwoman of the Transport and Tourism Committee of the European Parliament, together with the Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and the CEOs of the European rail freight transport...

Celebrating European social dialogue in the railway sector

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Existing since 1972, the railway social dialogue is one of the longest-standing in Europe.