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UIP News 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