Press Release: Rail safety: Commission welcomes significant progress achieved at Transport Council

The European Commission on 10 October 2013 welcomed the 'general approach' agreement reached at the Transport Council on a recast of the rail safety directive. This recast is the second part of the so-called Fourth Railway Package – proposed in January 2013 – with the aim of eliminating existing administrative and technical barriers by developing further the Single European Rail Area, thereby contributing to the competitiveness of the rail sector versus other means of transport.

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ESO: Background information: Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Union Agency for Railways and repealing Regulation (EC) No 881/2004 http://www.europeansources.info/record/regulation-eu-2016-796-on-the-european-union-agency-for-railways/

ESO: European railways at a junction: the Commission adopts proposals for a Fourth Railway Package http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-european-railways-at-a-junction-the-commission-adopts-proposals-for-a-fourth-railway-package/

Council of the European Union: Press Release: PRES/13/405: Railway safety - Council agrees its position http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/trans/138961.pdf

European Commission: RAPID: Memo, MEMO/13/870: Transport Council – 10 October 2013 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-870_en.pdf

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