Réseau ferré de France

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Réseau ferré de France

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legal form Public building of industrial and commercial character
founding 1997
resolution December 31, 2014
Seat Paris , France
management Jacques Rapoport
Website www.rff.fr

Réseau ferré de France ( RFF ) was a French state-owned company that owned the French rail network from 1997 until its dissolution on December 31, 2014 . The company was organizationally subordinate to the French Ministry of Transport and was based in Paris . If the management of the rail network was previously the responsibility of the state-owned SNCF , after the liberalization demanded by the European Union , the network and operations were separated. RFF was organized as a “public company with an industrial and commercial character” ( Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial , EPIC). On January 1, 2015, RFF was transformed into the new company SNCF Réseau , together with some of the business units of SNCF , under the direction of the previous RFF boss Jacques Rapoport .

History and function

With the establishment of Réseau ferré de France in 1997 , France complied with Directive 91/440 / EEC on the independence of the infrastructure manager from the rail network operator passed by the European Commission . Since then, RFF has been responsible for the administration, construction, maintenance and route management of the French national railway network. At the same time, however, the financial debts attributed to the network were transferred from the state railway SNCF to the new operator. In addition, the French state guaranteed the SNCF exclusive access to the network - in return, the railway committed itself to an economically profitable course of business. While the SNCF has since paid a corresponding fee to RFF for using the route, the State Railways remained the transport service provider and responsible for the commercial part of the stations.

RFF managed around 29,000 kilometers of the French rail network with over 108,000 hectares of railway area in around 10,000 French municipalities. In 2006 RFF recorded a total loss of 238.4 million euros compared to 126.2 million euros in 2005. In 2006, RFF invested 2.33 billion euros in the French rail network. RFF employed over 750 people.

Since the beginning of 2000, the strict separation between network (RFF) and operation (SNCF) has been withdrawn piece by piece. The maintenance of the route network was transferred to the SNCF subsidiary Infra and the route management to the Direction des Circulations Ferroviaires (DCF) , another SNCF organization. Since this form of organization led to an increased coordination effort between SNCF and RFF, a second rail reform from 2013 planned to combine all functions relevant for the route network in the new SNCF subsidiary Gestionnaire d'Infrastructure Unifié (GIU) .

There are, however, private railway companies that use the SNCF network, such as Euro Cargo Rail and Veolia Transport . These companies have so far only been active in freight transport . The Thello company , which has been operating night trains from Paris to Venice since December 2011, is the first of its kind in France.

President of RFF

  • 1997 – July 2002: Claude Martinand
  • July 2002 – September 2005: Jean-Pierre Duport
  • September 2005 – January 2007: Michel Boyon
  • March 2007 – December 2012: Hubert du Mesnil
  • December 2012 – December 2014: Jacques Rapoport

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Décret constitutif , n ° 97-135, February 13, 1997
  2. ^ Décret constitutif , n ° 97-444, May 5, 1997
  3. ↑ Annual Report of the RFF, 2006 ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rff.fr
  4. ^ Railways in Europe 2007 (long version), written by Christian Kirchner and IBM Global Business Services  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.1 MB; page 129)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.db.de  
  5. ^ Reform der Reform à la française , in: Bahn-Report , Issue 1/2013, p. 15, publisher: Interest group rail transport e. V., Rohr, ISSN  0178-4528
  6. ^ France: SNCF and RFF are merged as part of a rail reform. eurailpress.de, October 31, 2012, accessed on January 25, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Notre organigramme on rff.fr