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.)

1 The common specifications for the register of infrastructure referred to in Article 49 of Directive (EU) 2016/797 shall be those laid down in the Annex to this Regulation.

2 Each Member State shall ensure the values of the parameters of its railway network are computerised in an electronic application which shall comply with the common specifications of this Regulation.

1 The Agency shall set up and maintain a web-based application (‘RINF Application’) to act as single entry point for the publication of Member States' infrastructure information in accordance with Article 49 of Directive (EU) 2016/797.

2 The RINF Application shall be set up in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

3 The Agency shall ensure that the RINF Application is operational by 16 June 2019 at the latest.

4 Each Member State shall ensure that the necessary data for its network is collected and inserted in the RINF Application by the dates set out in Table 1 in the Annex.

5 Each Member State shall ensure that data in the RINF Application is maintained updated in accordance with Article 5.

6 The Agency shall set up a group composed of representatives of the national registration entities to coordinate, monitor and support the population of the RINF Application.

1 Deadlines for the population of the register of infrastructure stipulated in Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU and set out in the Annex to this Regulation remain applicable.

2 Member States and the Agency shall ensure that the data collected and inserted in the register of infrastructure in accordance with Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU remains available, and shall ensure it is accessible via the RINF Application.

1 Each Member State shall designate a national registration entity in charge of coordinating the Member State's collecting and inserting the data to the RINF Application.

2 Each Member States shall notify the Agency by 16 June 2019 at the latest of the national registration entity designated in accordance with paragraph 1 if that entity is not the body designated in accordance with Article 6(2) of Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU.

3 From 1 January 2021, subject to the development of RINF application referred to in Article 6(1)(a), infrastructure managers of each Member States shall be in charge of collecting and inserting the data to the RINF Application.

1 Infrastructure managers shall ensure the accuracy, completeness, consistency and timeliness of data in the RINF Application and submit updated data as soon as such data becomes available.

2 Until 31 December 2020, infrastructure managers shall submit data to registration entities. Registration entities shall submit data to the RINF application at least every month unless no data needs to be updated. In the latter case, registration entities shall inform the Agency that no data needs to be updated. One update shall coincide with the annual publication of the network statement.

3 From 1 January 2021, subject to the development of RINF application referred to in Article 6(1)(a), infrastructure managers shall directly submit data to the RINF application, as soon as such data becomes available.

4 Information relating to infrastructures placed in service after 16 June 2019 shall be submitted to the RINF application before the placing in service.

1 The Agency, taking into account the result of a cost-benefit analysis, shall update the RINF application by 1 January 2021 in order to: (a) streamline the process of updating data in the RINF Application in order to allow infrastructure managers to update information as soon as it becomes available; (b) improve the description of the network so as to display its geometry accurately; (c) provide information regarding possible routing on the network; (d) provide means for alerting railway undertakings regarding changes in the RINF Application relevant to them.

2 By 16 January 2022, the Agency, taking into account the result of a cost-benefit analysis, shall update the RINF application to enable the collection and insertion of information necessary for the Route Book referred to in Appendix D2 to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/773 . Each Member State shall ensure that its register of infrastructure provides the information necessary for the Route Book one year after the RINF Application has been updated.

3 Further developments of the RINF application may create a data system feeding into all electronic information flows in respect of the Union rail network.

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.

Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU is repealed.

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.