Position papers
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Sector Position Paper - The use of SAIT
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
The European Union Agency for Railways, Member States and sector stakeholders have been intensively discussing the exchange of safety-related information for many years.
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Joint letter - Transforming Europe’s rail system: budget & deployment
Monday, 26 October 2020
In this joint letter to European Commissioners Adina Vălean and Mariya Gabriel, CER, UNIFE, UIP and EIM express the strong commitment of the railway stakeholders community to contribute to future European railway research with a high level of technology readiness allowing to deliver and deploy...
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Reply to public consultation - Revision of the Energy Taxation Directive
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
In the context of the European Green Deal, the European Commission launched on 23 July 2020 a public consultation on the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD).
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Alternative fuels and powertrains
Wednesday, 23 September 2020
Due to the high degree of electrification, railways, as the existing green mode of transport, are able to offer almost zero-carbon train operations in Europe.
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The sector’s views on Rail Freight Corridors Regulation 913/2010
Friday, 17 July 2020
In light of the European Green Deal and the Commission’s goal to reach climate-neutrality by 2050, European rail freight plays an important role.
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30 by 2030 - how rail freight achieves its goals
Friday, 10 July 2020
The European rail freight sector has committed itself to the goal of 30% rail modal share by 2030.
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Europe's economic recovery after Covid-19: help finance it by applying user-pays and polluter-pays principles in transport
Wednesday, 1 July 2020
Since March 2020, the EU and its member states have committed more than €3trn to support their economies against the Covid-19 pandemic's immediate economic fallout. Further public money will be spent for the post-crisis recovery. How to finance all that?
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Revision of TEN-T Regulation 1315/2013 - ensuring the core network
Wednesday, 17 June 2020
The trans-European transport network (TEN-T) is an essential tool for the development of multimodal, green and efficient mobility in Europe and for enabling rail to unleash its full potential in view of the European Green Deal's ambitious climate targets.
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CER comments on Commission’s Guidelines on the progressive restoration of transport services and connectivity
Wednesday, 10 June 2020
On 13 May 2020 the European Commission published the Communication ‘Guidelines on the progressive restoration of transport services and connectivity – COVID-19’. In this paper CER analyses the recommended measures from a railway perspective, stressing some critical points.
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Rail’s contribution to the European Climate Pact
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
CER welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the development of the European Climate Pact, which is needed to fulfil the EU Green Deal’s climate neutrality objective by 2050.
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