Published: 13.03.2024.

The European Commission's Directorate for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) provides policy planning for the development of the Single European Railway Area to strengthen rail against other modes of transport. DG MOVE's focus on three areas that are essential:

  • opening the rail transport market to competition;
  • ensuring railway safety and interoperability;
  • development of railway infrastructure.

Railway Interoperabil­ity and Safety Committee (RISC), which consists from member states, examines DG MOVE draft proposals of legal acts in railway field:

  • safety;
  • interoperability;
  • ERA tasks;
  • Single European Railway area;
  • other points.

 Jānis Eiduks un Jeļena Stepanova represents Latvia in RISC Committe. 

  • Information placed on 15.10.2024.
  • Harmonised specifications for rail freight wagons
    • implementing regulation (amendments);
    • The purpose of this amendment is to ensure consistency between the technical specifications for interoperability (TSI) for rail freight wagons and the Regulation on the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID);
    • information is available on "Have your say" portal;
    • Committee procedure;
    • Commission adoption planed for first quarter 2025.
  • Information placed on 15.10.2024.
  • Amendment of technical specifications for interoperability of rolling stock
    • implementing regulation;
    • this initiative aims to create the possibility to authorise military escort coaches, which are specific passenger coaches integrated in military freight trains. These coaches differ from normal passenger coaches that are integrated in passenger trains. Military escort coaches were not included in the latest revision simply because they had not been necessary in peacetime. With the war in Ukraine, it has now become necessary to order military trains.;
    • information is available on "Have your say" portal;
    • Committee procedure;
    • Commission adoption planed for third quarter 2024.
  • Information placed on 10.06.2024.
  • TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS FOR FREIGHT (TSI TAF)
    • implementing regulation (amendments);
    • The purpose of the amendment is to transfer requirements that apply to wagons within the framework of technical specifications for interoperability (TSI), for coherence and to ensure that such provisions are subject to the authorization process for rail vehicles established under the Interoperability Directive (EC) 2016/797;
    • information is available on "Have your say" portal;
    • Committee procedure;
    • Commission adoption planed for first quarter 2025.
  • Information placed on 15.05.2024.
  • TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS FOR PASSSENGER SERVICES (TSI TAP)
    • implementing regulation;
    • this initiative lays down technical and functional specifications for ‘telematics applications’ – a subsystem of the EU rail system that enables data sharing between the digital systems of companies involved in rail transport services operated in the EU;
    • the regulation includes:
    • cover processes related to both passenger and freight services
    • set binding deadlines and milestones for its implementation
    • strengthen the role of the responsible authority (i.e. the EU Agency for Railways).
  • information is available on  "Have your say" portal;
  • Committee procedure;
  • Commission adoption planed for third quarter 2024.