Ensure interface with all relevant ERA Working Parties on Interoperability and Safety and with the UNECE RID/ADR/ADN Joint Committee, the OTIF RID Expert committee and all related subgroups on Dangerous Goods regulation (RID). Provide technical support to members and coordinate the standardisation's works at CEN/ETSI.
Cooperation platform to ensure harmonised approaches to the assessment of applications and decision on granting ECM certificates. Scope: the certification bodies shall cooperate with each other both within the Member States and across the Union, the Agency acts as facilitator.
The Expert Group is composed of members of the Railway Interoperability and Safety Committee (RISC) and drive the preparatory work towards the successful delivery of the necessary preparatory activities for the implementation of the technical pillar of the 4th Railway Package.
Develop common safety methods for assessing the safety level and the safety performance of railway operators at national and Union level. The mandate includes the definition of the methods to be used, the collection by railway operators of the safety occurrences information to be used and the coordination of railway undertakings, infrastructure managers, entities in […]
The RID Committee of Experts created the standing working group in 2012 in order to discuss and prepare the RID Committee of Experts. It meets in May and November almost every year. The working group looks at questions of interpretation and amendments to the RID. It also carries out work to harmonise the provisions of […]
Following the JNS Urgent Procedure Task Force “Extreme effects of thermal overload in special cases of freight operation”, the open points identified in the final report of the Urgent Procedure shall be analysed and long-term risk control measures defined.
The RID/ADR/ADN Joint Meeting is jointly organised twice a year by the Secretariats of OTIF and the UNECE Transport Division. The Joint Meeting’s task is to ensure that the dangerous goods provisions for European land transport are harmonised as closely as possible in order to simplify and promote multimodal transport.
The RID Committee of Experts meets every two years. It takes decisions on proposals to amend Appendix C to COTIF, i.e. amendments to the Regulation concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail and its annex (RID). The RID Committee of Experts approves the decisions of the RID/ADR/ADN Joint Meeting and takes decisions on […]
The Executive Board’s main function is to assist the Management Board, in particular, by preparing the decisions to be adopted by it, to ensure an adequate follow up to the findings and recommendations after investigations and the various internal or external audits. It also supports and advises the Executive Director in the implementation the Management […]
Assist the Commission in formulating and implementing the European Union’s activities aimed at developing policy on security relating to land transport, foster ongoing exchanges of relevant experience, policies and practices between the Member States and the various parties involved.
