Cooperation between ERA and OSJD

53rd NSA Network meeting

11 February 2020
 Content

• About OSJD
• Context for cooperation
• Workstreams since 2007
• Highlights for 2020+
• Participation
• How NSA could contribute
• Information sources

• Background information

Slide 2
 OSJD - Organisation for Co-operation between Railways

Based on agreements similar to CIM and CIV (1951), evolved into a more
comprehensive organisation for international railway transport (1956)
• Development of international railway • Transport law
traffic between Europe and Asia • Technical and IT/Coding Leaflets (O, R, O+R)
• Increase of railways' competitive ability • Tariff regulations & other commercial aspects
• Corridor development
and efficiency
• Multimodal transport development
• Facilitation of border crossing procedures
• Headquarters in Warsaw • Related strategies, information exchange, scientific
• Activities at state & company levels cooperation, OSJD Academy project...
• Cooperation with many international organisations

Important EU representation:
• Ca 1/3 of member countries & railways
• Majority of observers
• Ca half of affiliated enterprises (RUs,
logistics, manufacturing, training...)

• Facilitates transport flows EU  Asia

Slide 3
 ERA-OSJD cooperation - context

• Global / EU objectives of climate protection and sustainable growth

and the need to promote modal shift to rail in transcontinental
transport.

• ERA has legal obligations to facilitate and develop transport

services with third countries, to take into account related
constraints and evolution of the 1520 mm rail system (AR, IOD,
RSD, Delegated Act, WTO TBT).

• ERA cooperation with OSJD at expert level contributes to the

objectives of:
– Increasing convergence in the border regions
– EU law promotion and good practice exchange
– More reliable and faster links
– Additional market opportunities / competitiveness / efficiency
– Need to prevent new areas of divergency

Slide 4
 Fruitful cooperation ERA-OSJD since 2007

Main cooperation channel – ERA-OSJD Contact Group:

– Main focus on comparison between EU TSIs and requirements existing
in the 1520/1524 mm railway area of OSJD member countries.
• Collected information allowed to establish a strategy for the
1520/1524 mm system in the TSIs and to better cover it in the TSIs
• Useful information for various assessments by ERA.
• The first comparison cycle expected to finish in 2020.
• Exchange of information on evolution of requirements will
continue.
• Finalised reports are public. Ongoing – in red.
Subsystem ENE INF LOC PAS. WAG CCS OPE PRM SRT TAP NOI TAF
&MU Carr.
Initial 2010 2010 2011 2013 2015 2016 2015 2015 2017 2019 Mar Dec
comparison 2020 2020
Update start May Jan 2020
2019
Update finish Dec
2020

Slide 5
 Fruitful cooperation ERA-OSJD since 2007 (II)

– Second priority (approx. 25 % of discussion time) - mutual awareness

raising and discussions / exchange of practical experience relevant to
identification / coordination of measures for preservation and
improvement of existing technical and operational compatibility on
the border between EU and OSJD member countries
2017-2019 2020

Railway safety CSM RA and practical examples; safety culture;
approach org. and control of maintenance (pass. coaches)
4RP & new ERA role SSC and VA procedures; CSM SMS; corporate
safety certification in RZD; Delegated Act on TSIs
Railway staff EU law & OSJD plans on competences
Allocation of roles and responsibilities
for managing safety in EU rail sector;
Approach to continual improvement of
rail safety in EU
Women in railway transport

Railway GOSTs Results 2017 Results 2018-2019

Conformity Common in 1520-system & in UA Covered by subsystem analysis

assessment
X-border operation PL-LT example OPE aspects 1435 mm <–> 1520 mm
Miscelaneous 1520 standards in UIC IRS; Regular exchange of major safety &
Examples of X-border INF projects interop. news;
25t axle load (UA);
Autonomous train control (RU)
Slide 6
 Highlights on the ERA-OSJD MoU 2020+

Building on existing strengths, the updated MoU aims to optimise and streamline
the cooperation by adjusting and broadening its scope in a flexible way that would
help to address relevant topics of safety and interoperability in railway transport
between Europe and Asia (including combined transport).
→ → → More room to consider bigger picture – to move from 2007-TSI perspective
to more ambitious 2019-agenda promoting transcontinental traffic and modal shift
• Railway safety explicitly added
• Possibility to address expert proposals to the competent bodies (input to decision-
makers)
• Specific activities are defined in the annual plans.

More added value for EU rail sector and society

In coordination with EC (DG MOVE), ERA seeks to:

• Optimise the use of existing potential and its added value within the frame of available
resources.
• Promote wider participation, engagement and reciprocity in the follow-up of the
findings.

Slide 7
 ERA-OSJD cooperation – involved parties

• Current participants of the ERA-OSJD Contact Group:

• ERA & ERA observers: DG MOVE and NB-Rail

• In preparation: call for nomination of additional interested NSA &
NRB representatives
• OSJD Committee
• Interested OSJD member countries (EU: LT, LV, PL, SK; other: GE, KZ,
MD, RF, UA)
• OSJD observers: UIC and CIS & Baltic Railway Transport Council

• Wider reach opportunities:

• Participation in OSJD WG on Coding & Informatics
• Meeting on high speed technical solutions (if launched by OSJD)
• Mutual invitations to conferences
• Publications

Slide 8
 How NSAs could contribute?

Any NSA:
Share with ERA questions and/or suggestions on interoperability and safety
topics that could be covered in cooperation with OSJD in order to optimise
the outputs vs objectives and to develop synergies:
• General possibility to suggest topics;
• Deadline 15/06/2020 for suggestions on the 2021-plans.

NSAs of the states which are not OSJD members:

Inform ERA when interested to join the activities of the ERA-OSJD Contact
Group in observer status on a permanent basis or for specific topics:
• General possibility to join the ERA-OSJD Contact Group as observer on
ERA side;
• Next milestone will be specified in the call for participation.

Slide 9
 Information sources

• ERA website
– The Agency → Stakeholder relations
• MoU & finalised reports
– News, newsletters

• ERA extranet pages

– ERA-OSJD collaboration space
• MoU, finalised reports, draft reports in progress, presentations and MoMs (RU, EN)

• OSJD website
– http://en.osjd.org/
• In English: information about OSJD and its activities; key agreements and ToRs;
documentation / progress on the future Convention on Direct International Railway
Traffic; cooperation; news; contacts
• Further content in the official OSJD languages: Russian and Chineese, e.g. Leaflets
• OSJD Bulletin in English for subscribers: 6 issues / year (details on activities of OSJD
bodies, news, thematic articles, etc.)

Slide 10
Background information

Slide 12
 Key ERA references

Key references for ERA in cooperation with OSJD:

– WTO Technical Barriers to Trade agreement (TBT) Art. 2.4.
– Agency Regulation Art. 2 & 44
– Interoperability Directive Art. 1(1) & 4(5)
– Railway Safety Directive Art. 4(1)
– Delegated Decision (EU) 2017/1474 (esp. Art. 3.5(d))
– SPD 2020 & SPD 2018 (International strategy)
– MoU with OSJD

Slide 13
 Frameworks outside the EU

European Union OTIF

Liechtenstein,
Norway (EEA),
AT, BE, DE, DK, FI, Algeria, Armenia, Bosnia &
CY, MT Herzegovina, Iraq, Jordan,
FR, GR, HR, IE, IT,
LU, NL, PT, SI, ES, SE Lebanon, Monaco, Morocco,
Montenegro, North Macedonia,
Pakistan, Serbia, Switzerland,
BG, CZ, EE, HU, LV, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, UK
LT, PL, RO, SK
Albania, Afghanistan,
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran,
Russia, Ukraine

Belarus, China, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Korea South,

Korea North, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, Uzbekistan

OSJD

In red: Eastern Partnership countries

14
OSJD Railway Transport Corridors - map

Slide 15
 OSJD overview

Based on agreements similar to CIM and CIV (1951), evolved into a more comprehensive organisation for
international railway transport (1956)

"OSJD carries out activities aimed at the development of international railway traffic… between Europe and
Asia, as well as at the increase of railways' competitive ability and efficiency"
• Improvement, harmonisation and unification of transport law, technical regulations and standards
• Development of railway transport corridors
• Better tariff regulations for railway traffic
• Facilitation of border crossing procedures
• Development of container, contrailer and combined transport
• And many other issues (policy, strategies, economic, information, IT, scientific, technological, ecological,
vocational training, education etc.)

Wide geography with important EU representation:

• 29 member countries:
– from Poland and Slovakia to China, South Korea and Vietnam
– Including 9 EU MS, 5 Eastern Partnership countries and one candidate country
• 27 member railways:
– 27 national RUs / IMs, incl. 9 from EU MS and 5 from Eastern Partnership countries
• Other companies and organisations:
– 7 observers, incl. DB AG, ОСЭ, SNCF, VR, GySEV-ROeEE, ZS (Serbia)
– 45 affiliated enterprises (associated members): logistics, manufacturing, RUs, training etc. (nearly half from
EU)

Slide 16
 OSJD
Structure
Approves the work
programme, report of
the Policy Commission
and MoU with ERA

Warsaw

Summarises/validates
annual plans

Takes into account CG

annual plan & results

ERA-OSJD Contact Group Slide 17