Decision 2025/1251 - EU position at the 17th session of the Committee of Technical Experts of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) as regards the revision of the Uniform Technical Prescriptions applicable to the subsystem ‘rolling stock - locomotives and passenger rolling stock’, to the accessibility of the rail system for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility, to vehicle marking, to the subsystem ‘infrastructure’, and to the subsystem ‘Telematics applications for freight services’, and as regards the update of the Handbook for the implementation and application of the APTU and ATMF Uniform Rules

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Council Decision (EU) 2025/1251 of 16 June 2025 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the 17th session of the Committee of Technical Experts of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) as regards the revision of the Uniform Technical Prescriptions applicable to the subsystem ‘rolling stock – locomotives and passenger rolling stock’, to the accessibility of the rail system for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility, to vehicle marking, to the subsystem ‘infrastructure’, and to the subsystem ‘Telematics applications for freight services’, and as regards the update of the Handbook for the implementation and application of the APTU and ATMF Uniform Rules
 
Legal instrument Decision
Number legal act Decision 2025/1251
Regdoc number ST(2025)9462
Original proposal COM(2025)305 EN
CELEX number i 32025D1251

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Key dates

Document 16-06-2025; Date of adoption
Effect 16-06-2025; Entry into force Date of document See Art 3
End of validity 31-12-9999

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2025/1251

27.6.2025

COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2025/1251

of 16 June 2025

on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the 17th session of the Committee of Technical Experts of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) as regards the revision of the Uniform Technical Prescriptions applicable to the subsystem ‘rolling stock – locomotives and passenger rolling stock’, to the accessibility of the rail system for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility, to vehicle marking, to the subsystem ‘infrastructure’, and to the subsystem ‘Telematics applications for freight services’, and as regards the update of the Handbook for the implementation and application of the APTU and ATMF Uniform Rules

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 91, in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Whereas:

 

(1)

The Union acceded to the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail of 9 May 1980, as amended by the Vilnius Protocol of 3 June 1999 (the ‘COTIF’), by means of Council Decision 2013/103/EU (1) and the Agreement between the European Union and the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) on the Accession of the European Union to the COTIF Convention (2).

 

(2)

Pursuant to Article 13(1)(f) of the COTIF, the Committee of Technical Experts (‘CTE’) of OTIF was set up.

 

(3)

Pursuant to Article 20(1)(b) of the COTIF, and in accordance with Article 6(1) of the Uniform Rules concerning the Validation of Technical Standards and the Adoption of Uniform Technical Prescriptions applicable to Railway Material intended to be used in International Traffic (APTU) – Appendix F to COTIF, the CTE is competent to adopt or to amend, inter alia, the Uniform Technical Prescriptions (UTP) applicable to the subsystem ‘rolling stock – locomotives and passenger rolling stock’ (UTP LOC&PAS), to the accessibility of the rail system for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility (UTP PRM), to vehicle marking (UTP Marking), to the subsystem ‘infrastructure’ (UTP INF) and to the subsystem ‘telematics applications for freight services’ (UTP TAF).

 

(4)

Pursuant to Article 20(1)(e) of the COTIF, and in accordance with Article 21(4) of the Uniform Rules concerning the Technical Admission of Railway Material used in International Traffic (ATMF – Appendix G to the Convention), the CTE is competent to adopt or to amend, inter alia, the Handbook for the implementation and application of the APTU and ATMF Uniform Rules.

 

(5)

The CTE has included in the agenda of its 17th session, which will take place on 17 and 18 June 2025, a proposal for decisions to revise the UTP LOC&PAS, the UTP PRM, the UTP Marking, and the UTP INF, to modify Appendix I of UTP TAF, and to update the Handbook for the implementation and application of the APTU and ATMF Uniform Rules.

 

(6)

The envisaged acts of the CTE will have legal effects.

 

(7)

It is appropriate to establish the position to be taken on the Union’s behalf in the CTE, as the proposed decisions will be binding on the Union, pursuant to Article 6(1) APTU and Article 35(3) and (4) of the COTIF.

 

(8)

The objectives of those decisions are to align the UTP LOC&PAS, UTP PRM, UTP Marking, and UTP INF to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1694 (3) (the ‘2023 TSI package’), to align the references to the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA)’s Technical Documents of technical specifications for interoperability relating to the ‘telematics applications for freight’ (TAF TSI)...


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