Independent Regulators' Group - Rail

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

10,000€

Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

1.8 Fte (12)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

1

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    Independent Regulators' Group - Rail   (IRG-Rail)

    EU Transparency Register

    845563817745-89 First registered on 09 Jun 2015

    Goals / Remit

    The IRG-Rail is the "Independent Regulators’ Group – Rail”, a network currently comprising independent rail Regulatory Bodies from thirty-one European countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, the Republic of North Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom).

    Foundation and Mission: On 9 June 2011 fifteen independent rail Regulatory Bodies signed the "Memorandum of Understanding” for the establishment of the Independent Regulators’ Group-Rail. Since then, 16 new members have adhered to IRG-Rail. The Group acts as a platform for cooperation, information exchange and sharing of best practice between national railway regulators.


    Objectives and Functions: The overall aim of IRG-Rail is to facilitate and promote the creation of a single, compet (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    IRG-Rail has an interest in any EU market legislation that relates to the rail industry. Currently, among
    others, it is following the revision of Regulation (EU) 913/2010 improve capacity management and operations management for cross-border rail transport. Work is also being carried on charging and
    charging methodologies. Further areas of interest include access to infrastructure and services,
    regulation of rail freight corridors, collaborative market monitoring, multimodal approach and other EU
    legislative initiatives in land transport. Every year, IRG-Rail issues the Annual Market Monitoring Report
    which is published on the Group's website (the latest Report is available at the IRG-Rail homepage).

    Address

    Head Office
    IRG-Rail c/o Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen (BNetzA) Referat 311
    Bonn 53105 - 8001
    GERMANY
    EU Office
    IRG-Rail c/o Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen (BNetzA) Referat 311
    Bonn 53105 - 8001
    GERMANY

    Website

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    12

    Employment timeLobbyists
    25%4
    10%8

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    1.8

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    No lobbyists with EP accreditations

    Complementary Information

    IRG-Rail has no staff and budget.

    The IRG-Rail Chair mobilises from the organisation to which he/she belongs the resources needed to co-ordinate the Group’s activities for the year. IRG-Rail has no independent Secretariat and budget.

    Every year the autumn Plenary Assembly nominates a Vice-Chair for a one-year term. The Vice-Chair will act as Chair of the Group in the following year.
    According to IRG-Rail working arrangements, the Chair or the Vice-Chair represent the Group externally and in any official document and are responsible for its internal and external relations.
    The Group’s work is carried out by the staff of each member organisation, who participate in IRG-Rail working-groups and activities according to the relevant subject (access, access to service facilities, charges, charges to service facilities, market monitoring, emerging legislative proposals).

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    Trade unions and professional associations

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    None declared

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    10,000€

    Major contributions in closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for closed year

    None declared

    Intermediaries for current year

    None declared

    Closed year Costs

    0€ - 10,000€

    Other financial info

    None declared

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    N/A

    Other activities

    The Regulator running the Chairmanship for each year regularly reports on the activities of the Group at European Network for Rail Regulatory Bodies, that is held three times a year.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    1 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't publish information about such meetings. All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

    • Date 26 May 2015 Location Brussels, Belguim
      Subject Meeting representatives of IRG-Rail
      Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc
      Portfolio Transport
      Attending
      • Jocelyn Fajardo (Cabinet member)
      • Violeta Bulc (Commissioner)
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