The European Railway Agency would have to be the only authority delegated to the emission of the certifications and authorizations



The European Railway Agency (ERA) would have to be the only authority in the European Union the delegated to the emission of the certifications on safety and the authorizations for the railway field, let alone only person in charge to authorize the mass in exercise of all railway means. It is the opinion that the railway associations Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) and Association of the European Rail Industry (UNIFE) have expressed last week in European center in the within of the under way consultations from the DG Move with the stakeholders of the field.

"Currently - they have explained the two associations - the mandate of the ERA is that to promote the creation of a competitive European railway system, eliminating the transboundary obstacles and parallel to guarantee the interoperability. In 2011 White Paper on the transports, published from EU commission in March 2011, a lot proposes two important objectives of modal transfer: within the 2030 transport goods via earth it would have to happen for 30% for railway way or internal navigable way and 50% within 2050, and within the 2050 railroad it would have to be the main solution for the transport fleeting on the medium distance. Al fine of being ready for these challenges - they have found CER and UNIFE - the European railway market, so as its authorities of vigilance, must be transformed in order to satisfy increasing market shares".

"As first step - they have proposed the two associations - the EU commission must speed up the Member States to effectively implement the current directives on safety and the interoperability". Moreover CER and UNIFE have evidenced exactly that the European Railway Authority would have to become the only which charged authority to emit certifications and authorizations on safety and the authorizations to the mass in service of all the rotabile material.

"To go towards an only railway authority in Europe, in the picture of the fourth railway package - it has observed the executive director of the CER, Libor Lochman - the technical harmonization, the rationalization of the administrative procedures will demand let alone the removal of superfluous the national regulations. This, finally, will carry to a which supported and supervisionato competitive and transparent European market railway from a thin, competent and effective administration European".

"We confide - it has added the general manager of the UNIFE, Philippe Citroën - than the strengthening of the role of the ERA will be a priority for the Commission and the Member States of the EU in the within of the fourth railway package, also in sight to assign to the agency of the equipment budgetary necessary in order to develop its activities".