The next CEF must be strong enough to drive EU transport infrastructure funding and enhance EU competitiveness and security
The ten signatory associations representing Europe's railway sector - including passenger and freight transport operators, infrastructure and terminal managers, rolling stock lessors and rail equipment suppliers - welcome the proposal of the European Commission for the continuation of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) as part of the EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028-2034, published on 16 July 2025.
Joint AERRL-ALLRAIL-ERFA Postion Paper: The Future of the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (ERJU) – A Future Policy Based Public Private Partnership for Rail
As the EU prepares its next budget cycle, lessors and new entrants are joining forces to call for a bold, future-focused successor to the European Rail Joint Undertaking under the upcoming European Research Framework Programme.
We hope that the successor to Europe’s Rail will shift its approach in favour of innovation that supports the development and modernisation of rail, promotes the commercial success of operators and stimulates sustainability and competitiveness across the sector.
Joint AERRL-ALLRAIL-ERFA Postion Paper: FRMCS as an opportunity to stop the ERTMS deployment chaos
Together with AERRL and ERFA, ALLRAIL expresses its concerns about the current ERTMS deployment strategy and urges the European Union to take the opportunity offered by the deployment of FRMCS to review and refine its approach.
We call for a clear, stable and well-coordinated deployment strategy, including the development of a new technology that would allow FRMCS to be integrated with BL3.4, ensuring long-term success and supporting the future of European rail transport.
Sector priorities for the trilogue negotiations on the Regulation on the use of railway infrastructure capacity
Common position about the use of the current European Vehicle Number (EVN)
In the context of this ongoing reform, AERRL, ALLRAIL, CER, ERFA, UIC, UIP, UIRR and UNIFE have defined a new common position about the use of the current European Vehicle Number and a vision of its evolution. They highlight the advantage of the existing EVN structure as a speaking number and they advocate keeping the authorisation (managed by manufacturers) and registration (managed by keepers) processes clearly separate.