South East Europe Rail conference - Libor lochman

112 March 2013 CER
The Voice of European Railways
South East Europe railways:
Perspective For Development
05 June 2013, Belgrade
Dr. Libor Lochman
CER Executive Director

212 March 2013 CER
CER stands for…
 78 member companies, rail operators,
infrastructure managers, leasing companies
from all EU countries + accession countries
+ Western Balkan + Norway and Switzerland:
PRIVATE & PUBLIC companies
 The representation of our members’
interests in Brussels towards the
European Parliament, Commission
and Council of Ministers as well
as other policymakers and
partners in transport
 promoting a strong rail industry that is
essential to the creation of a sustainable
transport system which is efficient,
effective and environmentally sound.
What is CER

312 March 2013 CER
“Rail transport will be in the future the main mode for freight
transport in Europe.”
(Siim Kallas – Vice President of the EC and Commissioner for Transport)
Total productivity of the EU’s railway sector – infrastructure
management and railway operations – increased by 39% from
1990 to 2005.
(CER from ‘EU Energy and Transport in figures – Statistical Pocketbook 2010’,
European Commission, 2010)
“Tonne km in Inland freight in EU increases with 49 %, the
highest growth being envisaged for rail transport with 78 %. […]
[R]ail freight transport would account for 33 % of all inland
freight in EU in 2030 compared to only 26 % in 2005.”
(‘Traffic flow: Scenario, Traffic Forecast and Analysis of Traffic on the TEN-T,
Taking into Consideration the External Dimension of the Union.
Final Report’, Tetraplan A/S for EC DG TREN, 2009)
The future is an opportunity – and it has to be
exploited.

412 March 2013 CER
The strategic position
of Western Balkans

512 March 2013 CER
75 billion USD transport potential between Europe
and Asia

612 March 2013 CER
Corridors (TEN-T) in the SEE countries
- the rail infrastructure is the basis
1. The high
quality and
high capacity
corridors must
be given a
priority
2. They have to
form a
network of
alternative
routes!

712 March 2013 CER
Rail investment will trigger transport demand!
Rail track VS Motorway length in EU15 since 1970
In EU15, between 1970 and 2008
- road traffic almost tripled
- rail traffic increased slighly
Similar growth levels
can be reached by rail
with similar levels of
investments as in road
In 35 years MOTORWAY
length INCREASED 3.5
times !
In 35 years,
RAILTRACK length
DECREASED by 14% !

812 March 2013 CER
Setting the conditions right:
the overall rail system environment

912 March 2013 CER
Road Access
Charges
Roadsystem
Access to
infrastructure
Track Access
Charges
PublicspherePrivatesphere
PUBLIC AUTHORITY
CUSTOMERS
Rail
RB
Infrastructure
Manager
Operators
2013 version: input, output and regulatory
monitoring
MACs
Operators
Infrastructure
Manager
Infrastructure
PSCs
Rail
RB
Rail
RB
€
€
€
€
€
€
€
Railwaysystem

1012 March 2013 CER
The EU rail acquis: regulation of the
intramodal competition

1112 March 2013 CER
The EU rail acquis (1)
1st
Railway
Package
Inter-
operability
directives
2nd
Railway
Package
3rd
Railway
Package
The
Trans-
European
Network
Public
Service
Transport
State Aid
Guidelines
Working
conditions
of cross-
border
mobile
workers
Public
procure-
ment
Environ-
mental
legislation
Safety
directive
(revision)
International freight
market opening
Accounts separation
Establishment of RB
Compulsory NSs
MACs
Opening int’l and domestic
freight mkt
Establishment of ERA
Opening int’l
passenger market
Rail passenger
rights
Certification of
train drivers
Environmental noise
Diesel emissions
Environmental
liability

1212 March 2013 CER
Rail freight
corridor
regulation
Euro-
vignette
Passenger
rights on all
modes
Recast of
the 1st
railway
package
New TEN-T
and CEF
State Aid
Guidelines
The EU rail acquis (2)
Reinforced accounts
separation
Independence of IM’s
essential functions
Longer and stronger MACs
New principles for TACs
NDTACs and ETCS TACs
Access to Rail Related
Services
4th
Railway
Package
Governance of the rail companies
Domestic rail market opening
New ERA regulation
Interoperability
Safety

1312 March 2013 CER
CER view on the structural reforms
 Can be achieved with a well-financed and
independent regulatory body
 Allow efficient structural models to support
competitiveness agains other modes
 Both integrated and separated models can perform
 confirmed by the recent EVES-Rail study results
Efficient, non-discriminatory access to infrastructure –
a major enabler of competition in the rail sector
New legislation
only if seen
necessary for the
development of
the European
railway market
after a thorough
analysis
Each Member State should be empowered to
 reconsider its existing rail sector model
 have sufficient flexibility to reform the given model
 switch between models, if national conditions so
require
!

1412 March 2013 CER
Crucial aspect:
The intermodal level playing field

1512 March 2013 CER
Intermodal level playing field?
Cross-modal EU regulation needed!
 Improve EU law-making to ensure a fair
intermodal legislative framework
 Set up EU cross-modal legislative principles
– Common principle for infrastructure
charging
– Common principle for internalization of
negative externalities
– Common principle for taxation
– Common principle for passenger rights
– Common social standards
– …

1612 March 2013 CER
Infrastructure Charging and External Costs of
Transport to be applied urgently!
 DG MOVE report on how full internalisation of external costs for road and
rail could be achieved was originally due out by Oct 2012 but has been
delayed.
 However, the accompanying report for DG MOVE ‘An inventory of
measures for internalising external costs in transport’ by a consortium
of consultants has now been published.
 Key points:
 Infrastructure charging in road transport is much less developed than
in the non-road modes.
 An indicative estimate of the cost coverage of the infrastructure and
external costs of road transport in the EU is 38%.
 In none of the Member States does road transport pays its full costs.
The cost coverage ratios are the highest in Denmark (87%) and lowest
in the Baltic states and Hungary (17% or less).

1712 March 2013 CER
Future of the sustainable rail development?
Let’s set all the three key elements right!
Infrastructure
Intermodal level
playing field
Intramodal
competition

1812 March 2013 CER
Thank you for your attention!
For further information,
visit our website: www.cer.be

Dr. Libor Lochman
CER Executive Director
Tel: +32 2 213 08 71
Email: libor.lochman@cer.be


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