Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/777 of 16 May 2019 on the common specifications for the register of railway infrastructure and repealing Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU (Text with EEA relevance.)

Article 1

Common specifications for the register of infrastructure

Article 2

RINF Application

Article 3

Transition

Article 4

Data submission and update

Article 5

National Registration Entity

Member State may designate a national registration entity to act as point of contact between the Agency and the infrastructure managers in the view of assisting and coordinating the infrastructure managers of their territory provided that this does not put at risk the availability of data in accordance with Article 4.

Article 6

Future developments

The Agency shall update the RINF application by 15 December 2024 in order to:

(a) Allow for a partial update of data corresponding to the modified parameter(s), in order to allow infrastructure managers to update the relevant modified information as soon as it becomes available;

(b) Further adapt the routing calculation on the network with a micro level description;

(c) Provide dedicated notification to railway undertakings regarding changes in the RINF Application in relation to the network(s) for which they have registered to be informed of and provide a system acknowledgement to the IM;

(d) Provide the definition, modelling and implementation of validity dates in order to fulfil the use cases;

(e) Align locations for infrastructure description with locations used in the Union for information exchange in telematics applications.

(f) Integrate infrastructure description related to the nature of the infrastructure which is available to railway undertakings (part of the network statement (¹)) and to the technical characteristics of the rail service facilities (²).

Article 7

Guide on the application of the common specifications

By 16 June 2019 at the latest, the Agency shall publish a guide on the application of the common specifications for the register of infrastructure (application guide). The Agency shall keep the application guide up to date. The application guide shall provide a reference to the relevant provisions of the technical specifications of interoperability for each parameter.

Article 7a

ERA vocabulary

‘ERA Vocabulary’ means a Technical Document issued by the Agency pursuant to Article 4(8) of Directive (EU) 2016/797, establishing human and machine readable data definitions and presentations and linked quality and accuracy requirements for each data element (ontology) of the rail system.

The Agency shall ensure the ERA vocabulary is maintained to reflect regulatory and technical developments affecting the rail system.

Article 8

Repeal

Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU is repealed.

Article 9

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 16 June 2019.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

ANNEX

1. TECHNICAL SCOPE

These specifications concern data about the following structural subsystems of the Union rail system:

(a) the infrastructure subsystem;

(b) the energy subsystem;

(c) the trackside control-command and signalling subsystem.

2. PURPOSE

The main purpose of the register of infrastructure is to set out transparent characteristics of the network and be used as a reference database.

2.1.   Processes to be supported by the register of infrastructure

The register of infrastructure shall support the following processes:

(a) check before the use of authorised vehicles in accordance with Article 23 of Directive (EU) 2016/797;

(b) design of mobile subsystems;

(c) check of the feasibility of train services;

(d) publication of rules and restrictions of a strictly local nature in accordance with Article 14(11) of Directive (EU) 2016/797;

(e) verification of technical compatibility between fixed installations in accordance with point (b) of Article 18(4) of Directive (EU) 2016/797;

(f) monitoring of the progress of interoperability in the Union rail system;

(g) establishment of the network statement relating to the nature of infrastructure;

(h) compilation of the Route Book referred to in Appendix D2 to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/773 in accordance with Article 6(2);

(i) reuse of data in the register of infrastructure in other IT tools.

2.2.   Specific requirements for the register of infrastructure

The register of infrastructure shall:

(a) provide the value of the parameters to be used to check the technical compatibility between vehicle and route;

(b) provide relevant data to identify infrastructure characteristics of the intended area of use and facilitate the design of rolling stock and the feasibility check of train services;

(c) enable Member States to include in the register of infrastructure rules and restrictions of a strictly local nature;

(d) provide relevant data to facilitate the verification of the technical compatibility between a fixed subsystem and the network into which it is incorporated and to monitor the progress of interoperability of railway fixed installations;

(e) provide the information necessary for the Route Book;

(f) enable the use of the register of infrastructure as reference database for the network statement or other IT tools.

3. COMMON CHARACTERISTICS

The characteristics set out in this Annex shall be applied across the Union rail system, as a common vocabulary specification enabling:

(1) the infrastructure managers to publish their railway network data;

(2) the railway undertakings and any other infrastructure data users to access and use these data.

3.1.   Definitions

For the purposes of this Annex, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) ‘section of line’ (SoL) means the part of line between adjacent operational points that may consist of several tracks;

(2) ‘operational point’ (OP) means any location for train service operations, where train services may begin and end or change route and where passenger or freight services may be provided; it includes locations at boundaries between Member States or infrastructure managers;

(3) ‘location point’ (LP) means any specific point on a track of a SoL where value of a parameter changes;

(4) ‘running track’ means any track used for train service movements; it does not include passing loops and meeting loops on plain line or track connections only required for train operation;

(5) ‘siding’ means any track within an operational point, which is not used for operational routing of a train;

(6) ‘common characteristics subset’ means a subset of items shared by sections of lines and/or operational points.

3.2.   Railway network structure for the register of infrastructure

3.2.1. For the purposes of the register of infrastructure, each infrastructure manager shall describe its railway network at least by sections of line and operational points and optionally via common characteristic subsets.

3.2.2. Items to be published for ‘section of line’ related to infrastructure, energy and track-side control-command and signalling subsystems shall be assigned to the infrastructure element ‘running track’.

3.2.3. Items to be published for ‘operational point’ related to infrastructure subsystem shall be assigned to the infrastructure elements ‘running track’ and ‘siding’.

3.3.   Items for the register of infrastructure

3.3.1. Items shall be published in accordance with Table 1.

3.3.2. The register of infrastructure application guide referred to in Article 7 shall specify the specific format and the governance process of the data listed in Table 1 presented in one of the following ways: