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UIP position paper on the quality and integrity of freight wagons

Assuring the Quality and Integrity of Wagons in European Rail Freight Traffic Traditionally State Railway Undertakings integrated Private Rail Freight Wagons in their own fleets by means of a registration contract and supervised both wagon maintenance and workshops on the basis of UIC leaflet 433, RIV and the COTIF convention of 9th May 1980. The […]

UIP position paper on 2nd Railway Package

The “second railway package” is based on a first package of EU measures which was adopted at the beginning of 2001 and which laid the foundations of internal market for rail freight services. The new package of measures now provides the necessary legal framework for effecting the liberalisation of rail traffic. The opening up of […]