Forum Train Europe FTE
FTE
Als europäische Koordinierungsplattform fördert die FTE die grenzüberschreitende Koordinierung zwischen den Eisenbahnunternehmen.
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Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Sandro Santamato (Head of Unit Mobility and Transport)
2 Jul 2025 · Exchange of views on the establishment of a European Railway Platform (ERP) as part of the proposed regulation on the use of railway infrastructure capacity.
Meeting with Tilly Metz (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)
4 Dec 2023 · Rail capacity proposal
Response to Measures to better manage and coordinate international rail traffic to increase the modal share of rail
16 Nov 2023
Welcoming EC-support to the TTR sector initiative, FTE members analysed the proposal from a business perspective and expect major improvements if the below mentioned items are considered. Helpful items to be kept: 1. Provisions for multiannual cap. agreements (right to Framework Agreements (FA) A31, multiannual Rolling Planning A33, cap. specifications A26) 2. Multi-network cap. rights (A27,28) requiring IMs to provide services to RUs from origin to destination, incl. cross-border. 3. Reciprocal Commercial Conditions (A40), providing IM-incentives to plan changes due to TCRs well ahead. Helpful that these charges are set by RB. 4. Requirements for IMs to update strategic planning when market changes occur (A12) 5. Cooperation of IMs and Service Facilities (A29) 6. Independent Perform. Review body (A49-52) 7. Possibilities to request paths not consistent with pre-planned cap. (A20-3) 8. Right for RUs to get all cap. management done at one place, and obligation to IMs to cooperate (A27) 9. Digitalisation shall be to benefit RUs, avoiding multiple same data entry (A62) Helpful items requiring smaller, but relevant adaptations: 10. Rolling Planning (A33) facilitating major TTR goals should be clarified so that its safeguarded cap. keeps quality but is flexible, making other requests possible. 11. The EC right to adopt impl./deleg. acts should be accompanied with sector involvement. 12. The socio-economic criteria, motivating for common solutions (A8,37) should be manageable, e.g. with standard representative values instead of case-by-case data. 13. Main text on TCRs (A40,14) should be kept more open with the outlook on rules revision in 2024 (Annex1). Note the provision of having all TCRs in the Supply (helpful but not achievable by IMs in the mid-term). 14. Framework Agreements should also be international and not based on strategic planning, as conclusion time for FA come earlier (A31). 15. The limitation of 3x track access charge in compensation paid by IMs to RUs should refer to track access charge before any reductions, and not exclude damage compensations. 16. One IM as contact point for cross-border traffic should consider connected services. 17. The definition of multi-network service currently excludes trains with extra national coaches. Should Instead cover any service for which capacity is requested across network borders. Critical items that should be amended: 18. Provisions supporting active RU input into strategic planning (Cap. Needs Announcements, RU-IM dialogue) need to be added, to avoid the high risk of IMs creating cap. not in line with market. 19. The right for IMs to refuse requests not in line with the Cap. Supply needs to be deleted (A32-5,33-4). A simple refusal would lead to certain traffic being excluded upfront, due to plans made when this transport need was not known. Instead, IMs should do the effort in dialogue with the RU of identifying alternative, incl. consensual conflict resolution (A36). 20. A legal base for RU and Service Facility Advisory Groups needs to be added, these would otherwise disappear with 913/2010, lacking coordinated channels from stakeholders. 21. RB supervision is required also on the EU Level, towards NC and ENIM. These have large impact on RUs business, but now provisions limit ENRRB only to recommendation and opinion. 22. With improvements needed now, provisions not related to the full TTR process should be implemented earlier than timetable 2030 (A77): a) Cap. Rights/Methods of cap. allocation (A26,27) b) Coordination of multi-network cap. rights (A28) c) Cap. allocation through FA (A31) d) Provisions on planning traffic affected by TCR(A35) e) Consensual conflict resolution mechanism (A36) f) Changes to cap. rights after allocation (A39) g) Compensation for changes to cap. rights (A40) 23. Multi-annual financing of IMs shall be obligatory for EU states, helping IMs to plan TCR in due time. 24. National ways when RBs check offers should be avoided or aligned (A36).
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