IRG-Rail General Assembly in Bonn

On May 24 and 25, 2023, the spring meeting of the IRG-Rail (Independent Regulators' Group Rail) plenary assembly took place in Bonn.
The meeting was chaired by Dr. Annegret Groebel and Prof. Dr. Karsten Otte from the Federal Network Agency in Germany.

Three documents were adopted at the plenary assembly:

IRG Rail’s views on the European Commission initiative to better manage and coordinate European rail capacity and traffic management

Guidelines Service Facilities Description

Update of the table on time limits set for answering capacity requests according to Art. 9 (1) of the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2177 on the access to service facilities and rail-related service facilities

In addition, reports from the individual working groups on the implementation of the 2023 work program were discussed.

The plenary session of the IRG-Rail General Assembly elected Dragica Flam from the Croatian regulatory authority HAKOM as the new co-chair of the "Access to Service Facilities" group.

Further information on the IRG-Rail plenary session in Bonn can be found on the websites of the Federal Network Agency and IRG-Rail: