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Heading towards the CIT General Assembly 2026 in Bern

Dear CIT members

Time flies for us all, and following this summer’s special edition of CIT NEWS 3/2026, we are already finalising issue 4 in the run-up to our forthcoming General Assembly on 26 November 2026 at the headquarters of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in Bern. We are honoured that this year the CIT General Assembly will be opened with a welcome address by the Director-General of the UPU, Mr Masahiko Metoki. We will be then further guided through the agenda by the CIT Chair, Ms Maria Sack (DB).

In the meantime, we have organised and very successfully held important events in Luxembourg – particularly in the field of passenger transport – at the invitation of our esteemed member the Luxembourg Railways (CFL): the CIV Committee meeting and the CIT-UIC Passenger Claims Conference, which attracted over 80 participants.

In early October at CIT premises in Bern, we held the second edition of the joint CIT-UIC Workshop on wagon law, with over 40 participants. In addition to the organisers, CIT and UIC, the event was attended by representatives from OTIF, UIP and ERFA, as well as all major freight railways and wagon keepers in Europe.

I do not wish to reveal any further details at this stage. You will be able to read about all further details in CIT NEWS 4/2026, as well as about the most recent meeting of the CIT Executive Committee, held in Madrid in mid-September at the invitation of RENFE. We were honoured and grateful for this high level of attention and recognition.

The CIT is its members; and it is the members who make the CIT what it is! Thank you so much for that, and I look forward to seeing you all at the CIT General Assembly on 26 November 2026 in Bern.

Yours,

Erik Evtimov

CIT Secretary General