The Joint Network Secretariat (JNS) has issued the European Action Plan containing short-term risk mitigation measures on the use of pocket wagons. All the railway players across Europe are committed to maintaining rail as the safest land transport mode.

The Director General of Rail Transport Sector of Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom) Yrjö Mäkelä and ERA’s Executive Director, Josef Doppelbauer signed a cooperation agreement between the European Union Agency for Railways and the Transport and Communications Agency of Finland in Helsinki.

The President of the Inspectie Leefomgeving en Transport (ILT) Roeland Nieuweboer and ERA’s Executive Director, Josef Doppelbauer signed a cooperation agreement between the European Union Agency for Railways and the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate of the Netherlands in Utrecht.

We are pleased to announce the signature of the Headquarters Agreement between the Agency and the French government.

The President of the Eisenbahn-Bundesamt (EBA) Gerald Hörster and ERA’s Executive Director, Josef Doppelbauer signed a cooperation agreement between the European Union Agency for Railways and the German Federal Railway Authority.

Workshop on safety culture assessment aiming to produce guidelines on safety culture assessment.
Material developed during this event will be tested within Nordjyske Jernbaner (DK).

ERA and the Institute for an Industrial Safety Culture (ICSI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in the field of safety culture and safety management. This cooperation aims at improving railway safety by developing a positive safety culture in any EU railway organisation.

The EU Agency for Railways organised on 20 and 21 March 2019 in co-operation with the Ministry of Transport of the Netherlands and ILT (Environment and Transport Inspectorate). Invited experts from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Palestine were able to benefit from European railway expertise.