Legislation governing international rail traffic

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The legislation for the international railway traffic are a branch of the railway law , to improve, in order to promote cross-border rail traffic and to facilitate. The legislation has been drawn up by the Intergovernmental Organization for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) since 1985 . Contents include the international transport of people and goods , working towards the removal of certain obstacles when crossing borders, technical harmonization in the railway sector or the establishment of a uniform procedure for the technical approval of railway material that is intended for use in international traffic.

OTIF currently has 49 member countries from Europe, Asia and North Africa.

precursor

In 1902 the Lübeck conditions for cross-border traffic were passed.

In the Regolamento Internazionale delle Carrozze (RIC) of 1922, the participating railway companies regulated the requirements for passenger cars and their use in international passenger trains.

The Regolamento Internazionale Veicoli (RIV) of 1922 regulated the requirements for freight wagons and their use in international freight train traffic. It was to be replaced by the General Contract for the Use of Goods Wagons (AVV) on July 1, 2006 . However, since ratification is delayed, the RIV will initially remain valid for those railways that have approved the RIV but have not yet put the AVV into force but want to join.

The agreement on the international legal order of the railways of December 9, 1923 formed the basis of international rail traffic law. It was at the time of Germany , Austria , Belgium , Brazil , the British Empire (with New Zealand and India ), Bulgaria , Chile , Denmark , the Free City of Gdansk , Spain , Estonia , Finland , France , Greece , Hungary , Italy , Japan , Latvia , Lithuania , Norway , the Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Salvador , the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , Siam , Sweden , Switzerland , Czechoslovakia and Uruguay . In the meantime it also applies to some other states.

The Accord européen sur les grandes lignes internationales de chemin de fer (AGC), the German European Agreement on the Main Lines of International Rail Traffic of May 31, 1985 regulates the construction, expansion and other things of the international E-rail network in order to ensure a homogeneous rail network and to create interoperable trans-European network (TEN).

Convention on International Carriage by Rail (COTIF)

The most important set of rules of OTIF is the Convention on International Rail Traffic (COTIF 1999) with its seven annexes, to which the European Union (EU) also acceded in 2011 .

COTIF is an acronym and stands for Convention relative aux transports internationaux ferroviaires .

It was drawn up by OTIF in 1985 and the current version follows the protocol of Vilnius 1999. It applies throughout Europe and in the adjacent Asian-African Mediterranean region to the Middle East .

It also includes

  • the Convention international concernant le transport des voyageurs par chemin de fer (CIV, Appendix A), German uniform legal provisions for the contract for the international carriage of passengers and luggage by rail
  • the Convention international concernant le transport des marchandises par chemin de fer (CIM, Appendix B), German Uniform legal provisions for the contract for the international carriage of goods by rail .
  • the Règlement concernant le transport international ferroviaire de marchandises Dangereuses (RID, Appendix C) German Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail and Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods (Switzerland) on the transport of dangerous goods

as well as some other regulations.

literature

  • David Gugerli, Monika Burri, Kilian T. Elsasser (eds.): The internationality of the railroad 1850-1970. Interferences - Studies on the Cultural History of Technology, Volume 7. Chronos Verlag 2003. ISBN 978-3-0340-0648-4 . Contents overview on the publisher's website
  • Wolfgang Kunz, Urs Kramer (ed.): Railway law (loose-leaf collection) , Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 52nd supplement. 2019, ISSN 0946-8560

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Regulations and other provisions Based on Appendix F to COTIF 1999 (APTU). Uniform technical regulations, accessed on April 5, 2020.
  2. ↑ The Intergovernmental Organization for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF), last updated December 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ Convention on the International Legal Order of Railways of December 9, 1923
  4. ↑ 3rd European Agreement on the Main International Railways (AGC) Geneva, May 31, 1985
  5. ↑ United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology , accessed on April 6, 2020.
  6. ↑ OTIF , accessed on April 5, 2020.
  7. ^ COTIF International Rail Transport Committee , accessed April 5, 2020.