Joint Sector Paper on the Revision of the ERA Regulation

The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. Founded as the European Railway Agency in 2004, its goal then was to “contribute, on technical matters, to the implementation of the Community legislation” and its powers were limited to addressing recommendations and issuing opinions to the Commission. Following the adoption of the fourth railway package (4RP) in 2016, ERA’s role was trans-formed into the system authority for ERTMS and the European authorising entity in charge of issuing safety certificates (SSC), vehicle authorisations (VA), technical documents, audit reports, in addition to policy recom-mendations and opinions.

As discussed and requested during the 49th and 50th meetings of the Network of Representative Bodies, the sector has collected input for a potential revision of the ERA Regulation. With this paper, CER, EIM, ERFA, NB-RAIL, UIP, UITP and UNIFE proposes amendments via an Amending Act to address these problems.

Read below the amendments.