Railway Transport

Areas for cooperation/ Fields of expertise in Railway Transport:

1. Establishing national safety authority for railways (NSA) – independent authority responsible for railway transport safety; defining NSA vision, mission and values;

2. Railway transport accident investigation;

3. Safety management system (SMS) for railway undertakings/infrastructure managers; Issuing safety certificates and safety authorisations;

4. Railway market opening (licenses, railway tariff system, capacity allocation system, reformation of incumbent Railway undertaking, etc.);

5. Regulation of train drivers (training, examination, issuing train driver licenses);

6. Railway transport interoperability (authorisations for placing in service of rolling stock and other structural subsystems, implementation of Technical specifications for interoperability (TSI));

7. Public service obligations (PSO) contracts;

8. IT systems in railway transport related services (rolling stock, train driver and railway infrastructure registers, IS for issuing all railway administrative services, IS for railway infrastructure maintenance, railway transport risk management, railway transport noise prevention, etc.);

9. Railway transport safety measures;

10. Adjusting national legislation to the EU acquis on railway transport regulation and safety (Directives 95/18, 2001/14/EC, 2004/49/EC, 2008/57/EC, 2007/59/EC, 2012/34/EC, etc.).