Nomenclature: Safety
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
Joint letter from the European rail sector on concrete measures to face the COVID‐19 pandemic and its economic consequences
The representatives of European railways, combined transport and wagon load operators, wagon keepers, workshops and mobile services associations, on behalf of our members and of the European rail and intermodal sectors would like to thank all public authorities at all levels – European, national and local – for their efforts to ensure a coordinated and […]
UIP 69th Annual Report 2018
UIP report on the changes in RID 2019
Joint Letter to the German Federal Minister Alexander Dobrindt and EU Commissioner Violeta Bulc on Rastatt disaster
Open letter from the representatives of the European rail logistics The Rhine valley railways will be interrupted for almost two months because of the Rastatt construction site accident. Once the route is reopened the announced date of 7 October 2017, railway logistics will have suffered immense damage. The Rastatt disruption and the current crisis management […]