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Maria Price, DPhil.
Manager, European Affairs
BEWAG General Assembly
10 May, 2015
Brussels
Founded in 1950
National Associations
Seat in Brussels
Freight Wagon Keepers and ECMs (Entities in Charge of Maintenance)
European Fleet of about 200,000 rail freight wagons
Produces nearly half of all tonne-km carried around Europe
How do we work
INPUTS
OUTPUTS

Monitor EU legislation that
affects or may affect wagon
keepers in the future

Provide expert knowledge on
EU legislation and policy
developments

Understand and Assess
member’s business and
operational priorities


Develop members’ positions
though joint efforts and
expertise in dedicated Topical
Committees
Raise awareness before the EU
Institutions and the Rail Sector
of the business and operational
priorities of rail freight and the
wagon keepers

Influence EU legislation at
technical and policy levels by
promoting member’s positions,
best practices, and studies

Ensure cross-fertilization
EU POLICY
Topic Area
EU Policy
Initiatives
FREIGHT
4th RAILWAY
PACKAGE
NOISE
Governance
NOISE
Abatement
Technical
Measures for
Wagon Load
Services
Digital Single
Market
EC Rail
Freight Plan
Digital Single
European
Railway Area
Strategy
NDTAC
CT Directive
Freight
Corridors
Actors
Involved
Significance
to UIP
EC
EP
COUNCIL
MS
SECTOR
Safety,
Interoperability
Certification
and
Authorisation
,
Processes
ECMs
DIGITALFREIGHT
ISATION
EC
MS
SECTOR
EC
SECTOR
Wagon
Retrofitting
Plan
Scrap Bonus
Revitalise Rail
Freight with
Business and
Market Driven
TSI Noise
Solutions
EU
FINANCING
RESEARCH &
INNOVATION
RAILWAY
CEF
Ten-T Annual
Horizon
2020
Calls for
Freight
And Noise
JU
Shift 2 Rail
RMMS
Eurostat
Railway
Statistics
TENtec
PRIME
ERA Safety
Report
ERA Railway
Indicators
EFSI
DG Move
Discussion
Paper
EC
SECTOR
DTLF
EC
EP
COUNCIL
EIB
MS
SECTOR
TAF
Registers
Tools for
monitoring
Financing for
Projects
related to
Retrofitting of
Rolling Stock
TAF
Implementation
EC
SECTOR
USERS
ACADEMIA
ERRAC
ERA
Operational
Business
Solutions for
Wagons,
Technical
Demonstrators
DATA
EC
EP
EUROSTAT
ERA
MS
SECTOR
Dataset for
Rail Freight
Wagons
Studies
Reports
Source of noise and Decibels
160
140
120
12 Gauge
Shotgun
110
100
90
70
60
30
5
Rail Noise Reduction – the Challenging Pillars
EU
MS
Industry/Sector
MS
Noise
Reduction
Action Plans
Noise
Reduction
at Source
Noise
Abatement
Measures
Noise
Operations
Restriction
Green Paper on
Future Noise
Policy
COM(96) 540
MS
Noise
Abatement
Strategy and
National Plan
(TSI NOI)
Bans and
Restrictions
By MS to Rail
Sector
Environmental
Noise Directive
2002/49/EC
NDTAC
(1st Railway
Package)
Rolling Stock
retrofitting
Infrastructure
upgrade
Agglomerations
adaptation
Polluter Pays
6
EC Staff Working Document on Noise –
not binding, and does not offer concrete measures
Revision of the TSI Noise
Critical
Issues
•
Goals
Time frame
•
Extension of Scope to Existing
wagons
Revised impact assessment
• 2016 Mandate & ERA
Working Party
• 2017 Delegated act
•
•
•
Revision of the Environmental
Noise Directive
• REFIT Process
• Consultation before decision
• 2016 - Consultation
• Decision – Dec 2016 / Jan
2017
Need to discuss the economic impact with EC, ERA and MS
Definition of “national” and “international” wagons + derogation cases
(opt outs from geographical, technical, economical point of views?)
Roles and responsibilities in supervising and monitoring retrofitting
Current outcome of
EC Noise roadmap published on 04/2013
EC Staff Working Document (no communication) addressed to NL Presidency
on 23.12.2015 http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-15552-2015-INIT/en/pdf
Content of EC Staff Working Document
Acknowledges that noise is a European issue and that the current measures are insufficient to ensure
a noticeable reduction of railway noise within 5-10 years
Acknowledges the inefficiency and the risks linked to uncoordinated unilateral actions by Member
States (reverse modal split, bottlenecks, breach of interoperability, distortion of competition,…)
Points out that the holistic approach (internalisation of noise costs by al transport modes) is by far the
best performing measure to be taken
Confirms that the NDTAC bonus can be increased to take into account the higher operating costs
linked with the use of retrofitted wagons
Highlights that national funding programmes supporting the retrofitting of freight wagons should be
limited to 50 % of relevant investment costs but that EU funds are a complement to them
Proposes the development of noise-related standards of railway infrastructure
Proposes to revise the TSI Noise and to introduce a gradual applicability of the noise limit to the
existing freight wagon fleet
Instruments/Policy-Mix today
 NDTAC 2016 - 2021 (introduction under discussion in CZ and AT, others?)
 CEF co-funding 2015 – 2020: 20% of eligible costs for retrofitting wagons:
will the Sector make use of it?
 (new) Gradual application of TSI NOISE limit values to existing freight
wagons (after entry into force of 4th RP, 2 Task Force meetings before):
o Limit values to apply to all international freight wagons by
01.01.2022?, conditions to derogate at national level: wagon-km, life
cycle, noise maps, technical solution…?
o Limit values to apply to all freight wagons by 01.01.2027?
 (new) noise-related standards of railway infrastructure, How ? Where?
TSI Noise revision under EC delegated act (4th RP)
Thank you for your attention
Austria
Belgium
Czech
Republic
France
Germany
UK
Hungary
NVPG
Italy
Netherlands
Poland
Slovak
Republic
Spain
MARIA PRICE, Dphil.
Manager EU Affairs
[email protected]
Sweden
Switzerland