Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1694 of 10 August 2023 amending Regulations (EU) No 321/2013, (EU) No 1299/2014, (EU) No 1300/2014, (EU) No 1301/2014, (EU) No 1302/2014, (EU) No 1304/2014 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/777 (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 7(2) of Directive (EU) 2016/797 applies.’

‘2 The TSI shall apply to the network of the Union rail system as described in Annex I of Directive (EU) 2016/797 with the exclusion of cases referred to in Article 1(3) and (4) of Directive (EU) 2016/797.’

Regulation (EU) No 1301/2014 is amended as follows: (1) the paragraph in Article 6 is replaced as follows: ‘Article 7(2) of Directive (EU) 2016/797 applies.’; (2) Article 9 is amended as follows: (1) in paragraphs 1 and 3 ‘Article 20 of Directive 2008/57/EC’ is replaced by ‘Article 18 of Directive (EU) 2016/797’; (2) in paragraph 2 ‘Article 29 of Directive 2008/57/EC’ is replaced by ‘Article 51 of Directive (EU) 2016/797’; (3) the Annex is amended in accordance with Annex IV to this Regulation.

Regulation (EU) No 1302/2014 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 2(1), point (d), the term ‘mobile railway infrastructure construction and maintenance equipment’ is replaced by: ‘special vehicles, such as on-track machines (OTMs)’; (2) Article 8 is deleted; (3) Article 11 is amended as follows: (a) in paragraph 1, the second subparagraph is amended as follows: (i) the introductory phrase is replaced by the following: ‘They shall however continue to apply to:’; (ii) point (c) is deleted; (b) paragraphs 2 and 3 are deleted; (4) the Annex is amended in accordance with Annex V to this Regulation.

The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1304/2014 is replaced by the text in Annex VI to this Regulation.

‘2 Each Member State shall instruct its Infrastructure Managers to include the values of the parameters of its railway network in an electronic application which shall comply with the common specifications of this Regulation.’

‘6 The Agency shall set up a group composed of representatives of the infrastructure managers which shall coordinate, monitor and support the implementation of this Regulation into the RINF Application. This group shall also support the future development of this Regulation. National registration entities designated under Article 5 shall have the right to participate in line with their tasks and scope of activities. As appropriate, the Agency shall invite experts and representative bodies.’

1 Infrastructure managers shall directly submit data to the RINF Application, as soon as such data becomes available. The infrastructure managers shall ensure the accuracy, completeness, consistency and timeliness of the submitted data.

2 Infrastructure managers shall make available in RINF all information relating to new infrastructures to be placed in service, upgraded or renewed before their placing in service.

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.’

1 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 ) and to the technical characteristics of the rail service facilities .

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

“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.’

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