CCS TSI progress

Wednesday, 23 April 2014

This Position Paper makes public the official CER position on and for the CCS-TSI revision.

It recommends changes and amendments to be done, ensuring the deployment of a safe, sustainable, cost-efficient and reliable railway system with all its subsystems included.

A funding scheme supporting sustainable and efficient freight transport services

Friday, 4 April 2014

CER considers that a funding scheme supporting sustainable and efficient freight transport services as part of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) instrument is a pre-requisite to the fulfilment of the 2011 Transport White Paper vision.

RAC way forward

Monday, 24 March 2014

This position paper makes public the official CER position on and for the way forward for the development of explicit harmonised RAC.

Joint declaration of the PSEF - Re-building confidence in Europe requires sound public services

Friday, 21 March 2014

The Tripartite Social Summit on 20 March 2014 will tackle the very crucial topic of “Rebuilding confidence in Europe: Focus on job creation – lessons learned and future orientations”.

The Principal Purpose Test

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

The role of the Principal Purpose Test is to determine whether the principal purpose of a cross-border service is to carry passengers between stations located in different Member States, as opposed to entering a domestic passenger market.

Consultation - State Aid - Draft Communication on State Aid to Promote Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI)

Monday, 10 March 2014

The European Commission has opened on 28 January 2014 a consultation related to a Draft Communication on State aid to promote Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI). The IPCEI will modernise state aid control in order to foster smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

Consultation - Draft Guidelines on environmental and energy aid for 2014-2020 (EEAG consultation)

Friday, 14 February 2014

The European Commission has opened on 18 December 2013 a consultation related to Guidelines on environmental and energy Aid for 2014-2020 (EEAG) aimed to replace the 2008 Community guidelines on state aid for environmental protection.

Proposal for a Council regulation establishing the Shift2Rail joint undertaking

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

This CER Position Paper covers the “Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking” [Amendments 1.1 – 1.7] and “Annexes to the Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking“ [Amendments 2.1 – 2.17].

Common statement: road legislation harms intermodality

Wednesday, 29 January 2014

European transport associations in the road-rail, rail and inland waterway sector are increasingly worried about the upcoming vote in the European Parliament on the amendment of Directive 96/53 on the weights and dimensions of road vehicles, as well as the commencement of the proposal's...

Joint CER-EIM Position Paper on Register of Infrastructure - Request to adopt the principles of an industry standardised data exchange format for RINF

Thursday, 19 December 2013

In the architecture of RINF there is an interface between a Member State (represented by a National Registry Entity (NRE)) and the centralized part of the RINF system (CUI).