CIT Info

CIT-Info 2/2012 (PDF)

• “Berner Tage” ‒ In general
• Georgia to become 48th member state of COTIF
• IRU Symposium of Lawyers: Cohabitation or confron­tation of the various legal systems?
• “Berner Tage” ‒ Passengers
• CIV/SMPS legal interoperability: where are we going?
• Report on rail passengers’ rights
• “Berner Tage” ‒ Freight
• 15th meeting of the CIM Committee of CIT: projects and approved amendments
• China takes the CIM/SMGS consignment note another step forward
• CIT visits the FIATA Secretariat at the 2012 Head­quarters Session
• “Berner Tage” ‒ Use of Infrastructure
• Progress made in withdrawing reservations against the CUI Uniform Rules
• Law in practice
• CIT Itself

CIT Info 6/2011 (PDF)

• The new team takes the reins
• Georgia to join OTIF
• SBB Regulation Conference 2011
• Another PRR case before the ECJ
• Revision of the GCC-CIV/PRR
• New Passenger Transport Manual
• Comparison between COTIF/CIV and the SMPS
• Continuing development of CIT freight transport products
• New legal framework for CIM electronic consignment note
• The legal regimes for rail traffic between Europe and Asia must be interoperable and we must be willing to work together
• Dangerous development in legal precedent
• Law in practice
• The 2011 General Assembly
• “Berner Tage”

CIT-Info 4/2011 (PDF)

• Accession of the European Union to the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF)
• The liability regime in cross-border cooperation agreements
• The European Union and its neighbouring regions: a renewed approach to transport cooperation
• Airline passengers’ rights
• An AIV for East-West traffic
• Information about delays
• e-RailFreight – European railways take an important step into the future
• European corridors for freight by rail: the vision and the regulation
• Progress in the project to make the CIM and SMGS legally interoperable
• Update on the work being done by the CIM Working Group
• The Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan customs union will help to extend the use of the common CIM/SMGS consignment note
• Law in Practice
• CIT Itself

CIT Info 2/2011 (PDF)

• Will the European Union accede to COTIF soon?
• Armenia becomes the forty-seventh OTIF Member State
• European Commission White Paper - Relevance for the CIT
• Comparison of passengers' rights by rail, air, sea and road (conclusion)
• New AIV with effect from 1 January 2012
• Ticketing - the frontiers fall
• Changes to be made to CIT freight documentation on 1 July 2011
• DB AG supports the UNECE initiative for legal harmonisation
• Multimodality: main focus of future CIT activities
• CIT/OSJD Seminar in Astana with the participation of the Chinese Railways
• Sealing ... Never a "closed" issue
• New publications
• European Union study on the liability relationship between infrastructure managers and railway undertakings
• General Terms and Conditions of Use of Railway Infrastructure (EGTC)
• European Performance Regime
• Law in practice
• CIT Itself: Executive Committee 1/2011, New member
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

CIT Info 6/2010 (PDF)

• Recast of the First Railway Package
• A new main focus for the Brussels Project for a European Contract law
• SBB Conference on rail regulation held in Bern
• The UIRR celebrates its fortieth birthday
• Political aspects of passengers' rights
• "Tickets from A to Z" workshop
• CIM/SMGS from Europa through to China
• Freight: Further development of the CIT's documentation
• RAILDATA celebrates its fifteenth birthday
• The new CUI Uniform Rules
• European GTC of Use of Infrastructure
• Law in practice
• CIT General Assembly 2010
• New members
• On the retirement of Rainer Freise

CIT Info 4/2010 (PDF)

• West-to West: China backs rail for traffic for the West
• Montenegro acceded to OTIF on 1st July 2010
• Passengers' rights: state of exemptions to PRR
• Consultation on the AIV
• EU's campaign on passengers' rights
• Development of a simplified consignment note
• The OSCE is also promoting intercontinental traffic by rail
• Management of the maintenance of wagons
• The European Parliament supports the Rotterdam Rules
• Incoterms® 2010
• The "Freise-Commentary" has been published
• European Performance Regime: Confidentially of data
• Law in practice: What applies to locomotives "dead in tow"
• IDIT Seminar on Passengers' Rights and Mobility

CIT Info 2/2010 (PDF)

• "Berner Tage 2010": Case study
• Delays to passenger traffic: can carriers escape all liability?
• More Harmonisation in Contract Law
• CIM Committee: Changes to CIT freight products
• The Rotterdam Rules - consequences for railway undertakings
• The Railway as a link between landlocked countries
• Neu CIM/SMGS traffics between France and Russia
• Law and practice: link between EU Directive 2008/118 and CIM
• CIT Itself: Accession of RZD and changes within membership
• Forthcoming event

CIT Info 8/2009 (PDF)

• Better regulation in the EU
• The PRR comes into force
• XVIII Plenary session of the Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation
• UNECE and BSEC support the plans for the Eurasian Corridors and the Black Sea
• UIC/RZD Seminar "The use of freight wagons in international railway traffic"
• The UIC Freight Forum updates its programme of work for 2010
• CIM Working Group
• The new CUI Uniform Rules will probably enter into force on 1 December 2010
• CIT Itself

CIT Info 6/2009 (PDF)

• Revision of the CUI
• The Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network comes into effect
• Workshop on Passengers' New Rights held on 30 June 2009
• The East-West Tariff
• Using the CIM/SMGS consignment note from the Atlantic to the Urals: current state of work
• CIT/OSCE/UNECE seminar on the facilitation of border-crossing and the cooperation of central
• Asian railways in Turkmenistan
• E-RailFreight - Project leaders' meeting
• CIM Working Group's spring meeting
• Law in practice

CIT Info 4/2009 (PDF)

• Sixty-third session of the Electronic Commission for Europe during a world economic crisis
• Anti-competitive practices: victims' rights to be strengthened?
• Meeting with associations representing passengers
• Report from UIC Passenger Forum - Paris, April 28th 2009
• The GCC-CIV/PRR are in place!
• Sweeping changes in liability law for railways
• e-RailFreight - A significant new step has been taken
• Current status of work on the CIT/OSJD project "CIM/SMGS Legal Interoperability"
• Central Asia as the key region for Eurasian Freight traffic by rail
• How rail can succeed in the Europe-Asia freight market (Prague-Conference)
• CIT Itself

CIT Info 2/2009 (PDF)

• "Berner Tage": The joint sessions
• "Berner Tage": Passenger Traffic
• UNCITRAL Convention: the new "Rotterdam Rules"
• Trade and transport in the globalised world economy
• CER Passenger Working Group
• Common CIM/SMGS consignment note: Volkswagen traffic from Vel'ká Ida to Kaluga 1 started at the end of 2008
• News from the e-RailFreight project
• DB TREN's e-Freight Conference
• The definition of a wagon keeper in COTIF is now also enshrined in European Law
• Legal Advice
• CIT Itself
• Conference of Freight After-Sales Service Departments

Special Edition/May 2006 (pdf)

• Editorial
• the new Convention itself
• Changes for passenger traffic
• Changes for freight traffic
• Changes for wagon law
• The use of infrastructure
• Practical issues for implementation

CIT-Info 1/2012 (PDF)

• New Directive on Consumer Rights
• SSC Sea Freight Seminar
• Communication on Passenger Rights
• Revision of the regulation on air passenger rights
• 2012 security background
• Announcement: Workshop on Rail Passengers’ Rights
• CIM electronic consignment note: work begins to take shape
• Work in hand on the carriage of dangerous goods
• Announcement: Conference of Freight After-Sales Service Departments
• Pre announcement: Seminar: “Multimodale Beförderungen und deren Bedeutung für die Eisenbahnverkehrsunternehmen”
• The performance regime and the recast
• Law in practice
• CIT Itself

CIT Info 5/2011 (PDF)

• China opens its rail system to the common CIM/SMGS consignment note
• Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation (CCTT): the CIT achieves important objectives
• The CIT congratulates Libor Lochman
• Ticket fraud
• Revision of the GCC-CIV/PRR
• Rail Credit Card Sized Tickets (RCCST) security background 2012
• Passengers' rights in practice
• Progress towards the electronic consignment note
• The CIT's forthcoming work on multimodality for rail-sea traffic
• Claims Handling Agreement Checklist
• Progressive withdrawal of the reservations against the CUI Uniform Rules
• Law in practice
• CIT Itself

CIT Info 3/2011 (PDF)

• An update on the European Commission's White paper, the CIT's work on CIM/SMGS traffic and multimodality
• A new start on the path to the International Registry of Security Interests in Railway Rolling Stock
• Morocco ratifies COTIF
• The European Union accedes to OTIF
• Now making the law of carriage of passengers interoperable as well
• First phase in the implementation of the TAP-TSI Regulation
• Creation of a group of PRR experts
• The first PRR case comes before the European Court of Justice
• Accountancy regulations for the AIV
• International exchange of tariff data on the agenda
• The 2011 Freight Claims Departments' Conference meets its objectives
• Making the CIM and SMGS legally interoperable
• Closer working relationship with the Coordinating Council on Transsiberian Transportation
• Work starts on the GTC EurAsia
• The European Commission consider the EGTC
• Law in practice
• CIT Itself
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

CIT Info 1/2011 (PDF)

• A message from the new Chairman of the CIT
• Armenia applies to join COTIF
• Frontier agreements
• Broad gauge to Vienna is technically and legally feasible
• Comparison of passengers' rights by rail, air and sea
• Ticketing - Future White paper
• Ticketing - a long way from being paperless
• Directive on consumer rights
• Laying the foundations for an intercontinental railway transport law
• Major impulses from Kazakh Railways in the "CIM/SMGS legal interoperability" project
• Meeting of the CIT's CIM Committee
• General Terms and Conditions of Use of Railway Infrastructure on the home straight
• Reservations against the CUI
• European Commission study of the liability relationship between infrastructure managers and carriers
• Law in practice: preventing carriage and claims from passengers
• CIT Itself
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

CIT Info 5/2010 (PDF)

• Jordan joins OTIF
• Changes to the RID in 2011
• The EU opens the European e-Justice Portal
• Start of the work to revise the AIV
• Through-ticketing: a new pre-occupation for the EU
• CCST: Re-sizing international tickets
• Going after forged tickets!
• Russia would like to harmonise law
• The common CIM/SMGS consignment note: now in use from the Atlantic to the Pacific, both on land and by sea
• CUI: Return to legal certainty and consistency
• CIT Itself: The Executive Committee prepares for the 2010 General Assembly

CIT Info 3/2010 (PDF)

• Broad gauge from Vladivostok to Vienna
• Taking stock after five months of the PRR
• The volcanic ash cloud and the rights of airline passengers
• Cooperation between claims departments
• Activities of the CIT in the SPECA region
• The railway to standardisation CIM/SMGS meetings in Vilnius
• The revised CUI Uniform Rules enter into force on 1 December 2010
• Law and practice: Payment instructions on the CIM Consignment Note
• CIT Itself: Obligation to respect CIT decisions
• NTV joins the CIT
• Forthcoming events

CIT Info 1/2010 (PDF)

• "Berner Tage" 2010
• Joint sessions
• Passenger traffic
• Freight traffic
• Russia accedes to COTIF
• New AIV applicable with effect from 3 December 2009
• Exemptions from the PRR
• Liability between railway undertakings and infrastructure managers - consultation of stakeholders
• Law and practice: international bus and coach services
• CIT Itself: new members
• Forthcoming events

CIT Info 7/2009 (PDF)

• Russia accedes to COTIF
• OTIF General Assembly
• Competent court when a flight is cancelled
• Liability for the whole journey: the European Commission's reply
• Passengers' rights: railway undertakings are kept busy
• Trial train from Islamabad to Istanbul
• The latest developments in the project "CIM/SMGS Legal Interoperability"
• Use of infrastructure: current issues
• Law in practice
• CIT Itself
• "Berner Tage"

CIT Info 5/2009 (PDF)

• "All change" for the TCV Working Group
• CER: survey on the transposition of the PRR
• New draft AIV
• Letter to all passenger directors
• Freight after-sales service departments' conference
• Review of the work of UIC groups and UIC freight projects
• Joint Railway/Customs Meeting
• OTIF/ECO Workshop on "Rail Transport between Europe and Asia"
• Legal Advice
• CIT Itself

CIT Info 3/2009 (PDF)

• "Berner Tage": General terms and conditions in theory and in practice
• "Berner Tage": Freight section
• Transport policy 2010-2050
• CIV Working Group
• Meetings of the Price and Commercial Questions and Distributions and Systems Study Group
• Annual conference of the European Passenger Federation (EPF)
• Fiftieth COLPOFER Conference - Berlin 2 & 3 April 2009
• Annual meeting of the CIM Committee
• CIM/SMGS consignment note also in use on Corridors V and IX
• Comprehensive border easements are a key issue for the Kazakh customs authorities
• UNECE is turning increasingly towards intermodality at a global level
• Seminars

CIT Info 1/2009 (PDF)

• The EU's priorities for transport policy in 2009
• The EU would like to see more consumer protection
• New rights for passengers travelling by bus or by boat
• Airline passengers' rights - Cancellation of a flight for technical raisons
• CIT/OSJD workshop on the handling of CIM/SMGS claims
• Results of the eleventh meeting of the CIM/SMGS Steering Group
• OTIF Seminar in Baku
• e-RailFreight - a short update
• New proposals from the European Commission to improve international railway corridors
• Conference of freight after-sales service departments 2009
• High level meeting on the Eur GTC