Press Release: Revitalising the railways: Commission makes proposals to speed up establishment of an integrated railway area

A new package of measures to revitalise the railways by rapidly building an integrated European railway area were unveiled by the European Commission on 23 January 2002. The five measures are based on the guidelines set out in the recent White Paper on transport and aim at greater safety, interoperability and opening of the rail freight market. To give strong impetus to this process, the Commission has also proposed establishment of a European Railway Agency to steer the technical work on safety and interoperability

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