Interoperability and safety
Interoperability and safety enhance and ensure the seamless and safe circulation of passengers and goods on railway vehicles across the European Union and even beyond its borders.
Related CER Publications
CER & UNIFE call for an EU budget that integrates rail i
On 20 April, CER and UNIFE addressed a letter to European Commission Vice-President Timmermans, Transport Commissioner Adina Vălean, Cohesion and Reforms Commissioner Elisa...
Strategic Deployment Agenda for 5G Connectivity and Spectrum
The CER-EIM Strategic Deployment Agenda for 5G Connectivity and Spectrum for Rail describes and provides guidance on how to implement two 5G lighthouses that will enhance...
CER Position Paper on noise differentiated track access char
CER welcomes the evaluation of the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/429, setting out the modalities for the application of the charging of the cost of noise effects. Following...
CER Policy Agenda 2019-2024
Railways are the backbone of European mobility and the European transport system. Railways play a vital role for society: over the last decade, rail saw a renaissance in...
Drones - CER Position on draft legal acts
CER acknowledges the intense work done to prepare drone regulation and calls for a simplified regime supporting drone operations for railway purposes, but also for...
More funds proposed for greening and digitalising transport
The Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) welcomes the joint vote of the Committees on Industry, Research and Energy and on Transport and Tourism on the...
CER welcomes Parliament MFF report
On 14 November the European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg, approved the report on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027, outlining the Parliament’s position...
Exchange of domestic tariff data - NeTEx standard
In the framework of the TAP TSI revision activity, the European Union Agency for Railways launched a study to analyse domestic tariffs of European railways in order to...
CER Position Paper - Commission Proposal on Connecting Europ
CER welcomes the Commission proposal establishing the Connecting Europe Facility but feels that the proposed budgetary resources for transport of EUR 30.6 billion are not...
ERRAC, the Technology Platform for the rail sector in Europe
The European Rail Research Advisory Council (ERRAC) plans joint participation with Shift2Rail at InnoTrans 2018 to showcase the railway sector’s new Rail 2050 Vision and to...
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TSGA - the TAP TSI Services Governance Association
The TSGA (TAP TSI Services Governance Association) is a non-profit association helping to improve rail distribution and digitalisation. The TSGA was set up in December...
Group of Representative Bodies
The Group of Representative Bodies (GRB) is a grouping of railway associations in Europe with the role of supporting, in a transverse way, the rail sector’s input to the European...
ERRAC - The European Rail Research Advisory Council
ERRAC was set up in 2001 with the ambitious goal of creating a single European body with both the competence and capability to help revitalise the European rail sector and make it...
European Railway Agency Database of Interoperability and Safety
The ERADIS database shall ensure that the information relevant to the safety and interoperability of the railways in the Member States is accessible and transparent to all...
European Union Agency for Railways
The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) was established in 2004 to devise the technical and legal framework for creating a Single European Railway Area (SERA) as mandated...
