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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11697

6 January 2017
SECTORAL POLICIES / Transport
Commission adopts new implementation plan for simplifying cross-border railway links
Brussels, 05/01/2017 (Agence Europe)

On 5 January, the European Commission adopted a regulation for a new plan to introduce the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS), which, in the long term, seeks to replace the 25 different national signalling systems with a single European system.

This decision was welcomed by Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc, who sees it as another step towards the unification of the European rail network and in this regard referred to the adoption last December of the political pillar in the...

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