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22. November 2024.
WG OTIF: 54th SESSION OF WG TECH IN BELGRADE
With the support of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia, the Directorate for Railways hosted the 54th Session of the working group technology (WG TECH) of OTIF (Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail). The WG TECH met on 19 November 2024 in the premises of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia in Belgrade, with a possibility of online attendance. The meeting gathered representatives of the OTIF member states, European Commission, European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), Organisation for Cooperation between Railways (OSJD), Transport Community and International Union of Railways (UIC).
23 September 2024
IPA WORKSHOP ON CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT IN RAILWAYS, HELD IN BANJA LUKA FROM 10 TO 12 SEPTEMBER 2024
As part of the IPA project, the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and the Transport Community organized, in the period from 10 to 12 September 2024, an IPA workshop on conformity assessment in railways in the EU. The workshop took place in Banja Luka and brought together a significant number of representatives of national safety authorities and infrastructure managers from the countries of the Western Balkans, Georgia and Turkey.
28 May 2024
IRG-Rail – PLENARY ASSEMBLY HELD IN FALUN, SWEDEN 14-15 MAY 2024
IRG-Rail’s Plenary Assembly met for its spring session in Falun, chaired by Mr Jonas Bjelfvenstam and Carl Von Utfall Danielsson from Transportstyrelsen, Sweden’s Regulatory Authority for Railway. Transportstyrelsen welcomed the representatives of 24 Regulatory Bodies on site and six connected remotely.
21 March 2024
Study Visit to the People’s Republic of China organized by CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd
CRRC China Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. organized a study visit to the People's Republic of China from 7 to 13 March 2024 in the spirit of Chinese-Serbian friendship and successful cooperation in the implementation of a number of significant projects in the field of railways.
5 March 2024
TRANSPORT COMMUNITY – 19th MEETING OF THE TECNICAL COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY
The Transport Community’s Technical Committee on Railway held its 19th meeting in Vienna on 27-28 February 2024. In the premises of the infrastructure manager ÖBB Infrastruktur AG, the participants of this meeting had the opportunity to learn about the history of the main railway station in Vienna (Wien Hauptbahnhof) and its construction project, which lasted from 2007 to 2012. Also, the participants were introduced by colleagues from ÖBB Infrastruktur AG to the structure and organization of the ...
26 January 2024
IRG-RAIL: MARKET MONITORING WORKING GROUP MEETING
With the support of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia, the Directorate for Railways hosted the meeting of the Market Monitoring Working Group of the Group of Independent Regulators of the Railway Market - IRG-rail. The meeting held on 23 January 2024 in the premises of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia in Belgrade gathered around 20 representatives of railway regulatory bodies from 13 European countries, as well as a certain number of representatives who followed the meeting remotely.
27 December 2023
RESCOR MEETING 2023
The RESCOR network gathered from 14 to 15 December 2023 in Lyon, France, at a meeting organized by the French Technical Service in Charge of Safety for Ropeways and Guided Transports - STRMTG, which is responsible to the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion. STRMTG is in charge of ropeways in accordance with EU regulations and has a significant role in approving the commissioning of urban guided transport systems (such as metro, tramways, etc.).
8 December 2023
IRG-Rail – PLENARY ASSEMBLY HELD IN BERLIN FROM 28 TO 29 NOVEMBER 2023
IRG-Rail’s Plenary Assembly met for its autumn session in Berlin, chaired by Dr. Annegret Groebel and Prof. Dr. Karsten Otte from Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s Regulatory Authority for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway. Bundesnetzagentur welcomed the representatives of 23 Regulatory Bodies on site and six connected remotely.
Source: IRG-Rail
30 November 2023
OTIF – Anniversary of the CIM and CIV Uniform Rules
The 5th session of the ad hoc Committee on Legal Affairs and International Cooperation of OTIF (Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail) opened on 7 November 2023 in Bern with a special event related to the 130th anniversary of CIM and 95th anniversary of CIV Uniform rules.
Source: OTIF
29 November 2023
International Conference on Cybersecurity in Railways
Third ERA-ENISA Conference on Cybersecurity in Railways that took place on 8 - 9 November 2023 in Athens was the continuation of the close collaboration between the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) on cybersecurity in the railway domain.
Source: ERA
