Executive Summary

The European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM) welcomes the activities of the European Commission (EC) to strengthen military mobility across the European Union and supports its objective of enabling fast, reliable and coordinated movements of military assets.

EIM considers that rail infrastructure will play a central role in delivering this objective. However, ensuring effective implementation requires that the regulatory framework fully reflects operational realities and provides the right conditions for infrastructure managers to deliver under both normal and crisis situations.

For EIM, the main challenges for military mobility are not purely technical, but primarily organisational and operational.

EIM stands ready to support the development of a European Military Mobility framework that is both ambitious and operationally deliverable.reforms cost-benefit frameworks to capture the full value of avoided losses and co-benefits and

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