This Position Paper expresses EIM's stance on the recast of the CCS TSI. EIM position remains and a dialogue with the sector organisations should be initiated.

The European Commission has submitted a report on the application of the Regulation (EU) 913/2010 to the European Parliament and the Council by 10 November 2015 , and is considering a revision of the Regulation in 2017, taking into consideration the results of the reports presented by the Executive Boards of the so far operational corridors every two years . Supported by CER, (Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies), and EIM (European Rail Infrastructure Managers), we, the Railway Undertakings (RUs), the Rail Freight Corridors (RFCs) and their related Infrastructure Managers (IMs) and Allocation Bodies (ABs), would like to give some food for thought based on our experiences at an early stage of the discussion.

Following the second Working Group (WG) session on 8th July 2015, OTIF has issued a new draft text of Article 1 on the scope of application of CUI, and has proposed new definitions in Article 3 for ‘’carriers’’ and ‘’train’’...

This Joint Position Paper expresses the views of EIM and CER regarding ‘Ballast Pick-up due to Aerodynamic Effects’. The Position Paper contains proposals to address the open point within the INF and LOC&PAS TSI related to the ‘ballast pick-up’ phenomenon.

In order to effectively avoid metal thefts to merely shift from one sector to another and/or from one country to another legal measures must come into force which would effectively dissuade perpetrators from this sort of crime in the European Union in general. EIM therefore repeats its call for a legislative initiative of the European Commission to solve the issue.

This Position Paper expresses EIM’s stance on the draft report and the amendments to this report. It also aims to highlight the role that rail infrastructure is currently playing in urban mobility policies and its potentiality in the future, notably with regards to freight urban transport. Furthermore, the Paper points out the importance of a multimodal approach for urban transport.

The OTIF – Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail – is reviewing the Convention on International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) and its Appendices, including App E which specifically concerns the contract for use of the Infrastructure

The purpose of this document is to propose a quantitative Reliability requirement for the ETCS On-board subsystem for inclusion in the amendment of the TSI CCS and therefore applicable to the trans-European rail system.

Declaration of Intent to establish the Platform of European Rail Infrastructure Managers in Europe (PRIME)