Subject "3.20.15.08 Rail transport agreements and cooperation"

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF): revision of the Uniform Technical Prescription applicable to the subsystem “rolling stock – freight wagons” (UTP WAG), to the subsystem “rolling stock – noise” (UTP Noise), to train composition and route compatibility checks (UTP TCRC), and to the subsystem Telematics applications for freight services (UTP TAF). EU position

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF): certain amendments to Appendix C to the Convention concerning International Carriage by rail. EU position

Luxembourg Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters specific to Railway Rolling Stock. EU position

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF): OTIF ad hoc Committee on Legal Affairs and International Cooperation. EU position

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on customs questions affecting transport and Inland Transport Committee: proposal to amend the Terms of Reference of the Working Party. EU position

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF): modifications to the uniform technical prescriptions concerning the qualifications and independence of assessing entities and concerning a common safety method on risk evaluation and assessment, modification of the rules of procedure of the Committee of Technical Experts, and upgrade of the references to the Technical Documents of TAF TSI listed in Appendix I of UTP TAF. EU position

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail: certain amendments to Appendix C to the Convention concerning International Carriage by rail. EU position

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF): 15th General Assembly. EU position

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) - Committee of Technical Experts: modifications to UTP locomotives and passenger rolling stock, UTP rolling stock – freight wagons, UTP concerning accessibility of the rail system for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility, adoption of the UTP applicable to train composition and route compatibility checks and the UTP applicable to the subsystem infrastructure, upgrade of the references to the Technical Documents of TAF TSI listed in Appendix I of UTP TAF, and revision of ATMF with regard to Entities in Charge of Maintenance (ECM). EU position

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) - Committee of Technical Experts: modifications to UTP rolling stock noise, UTP freight wagons, UTP vehicle marking, and full revision of the rules for the certification and auditing of entities in charge of maintenance (ECM) and the specifications concerning vehicle registers. EU position

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) - Committee of Experts for the Carriage of Dangerous Goods: amendments to Appendix C to the Convention concerning International Carriage by rail (COTIF). EU position

Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) - Committee of Technical Experts: modifications to NVR and UTP TAF. EU position

Empowering France to negotiate, sign and conclude an international agreement on the safety and interoperability requirements within the Channel Fixed Link

Cross-border infrastructure linking the Union and the United Kingdom through the Channel Fixed Link

Empowering France to negotiate an agreement supplementing its existing bilateral Treaty with the United Kingdom concerning the construction and operation by private concessionaires of a Channel Fixed Link

Ensuring basic road freight and air connectivity: periods of application

Railway safety and connectivity with regard to the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Union

Cape Town Convention (2001) on International Interests in Mobile Equipment: matters specific to railway rolling stock. Luxembourg Protocol, Rail Protocol 2007

International carriage by rail: agreement on the accession to the Convention COTIF 1980, as amended by the Vilnius Protocol in June 1999