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Global Railway Review – Ensuring rail freight can play the role it deserves in Europe
Article in Railway Gazette: Delivering Europe’s digital coupler
UIP Guide on Impact of the new ECM Regulation 2019/779
UIP/VPI Technical Guideline on the Evaluation of SCCs for Rail Freight Vehicles
The joint UIP/VPI document is aimed at providing a common understanding for Keepers, ECMs and manufacturers on identifying Safety Critical Components of rail freight wagons. The compliance of the applied methodology with the provisions of the CSM on Risk Assessment (EU regulation 402/2013) has been confirmed by an Assessment Body (AsBo).
Guidance documents on new ECM Regulation 2019/779
UIP has shared with its members the following documents and aimed at providing to certified ECMs a full picture on the requirements arising from the new ECM Regulation 2019/779.
UIP report on the changes in RID 2021
UIP 70th Annual Report 2019
Railway Noise
UIP and its members recognise that noise is a critical environmental burden that affects not only society, but also the performance of the railway system around Europe. The EU has already taken a number of measures towards noise reduction.
UIP Report Noise – state of play
Noise continues to be high on the European agenda where noise creation aspects are legislated and on the national one where noise reception is dealt with according to the subsidiary principles. Accordingly, all European countries have noise reception limit values for new railway lines and in almost all Member States limit values exist also for […]