Today, the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council of the European Union has agreed on its negotiating position with respect to recent regulatory proposals affecting the sector including the new Regulation on the European Agency for Maritime Safety (EMSA) and the new regulation on the use of Capacity of rail infrastructure in space single European rail system. The proposal for a regulation on the EMSA issued by the European Commission a year ago with the intention to update the Agency's mandate in order to better maintain the taking into account EMSA's new tasks in the areas of sustainability, decarbonisation, digitalisation, surveillance and knowledge of the maritime situation, the Council expressed support for the objectives of the Commission's proposal, proposing, however, to remove certain tasks outside the scope of the competence, including those relating to seagoing vessels and NOx emissions, and to add new tasks, including the provision of support to the Commission national authorities and competent bodies implementation of the EU's restrictive measures (i.e. sanctions, in particular with regard to movement data of ships covered by the sanctions regime).

The general approach taken by the Council on the Regulation on the use of infrastructure capacity aims to increase the availability of rail infrastructure through an improved Scheduling and assigning, reducing workload competent authorities and entities as well as better coordination cross-border.