Date of dispatch of this notice: 30/01/2016
External Reference: 2016-686118
TED Reference: 2016/S 022-035789
Date of dispatch of this notice: 30/01/2016
External Reference: 2016-686118
TED Reference: 2016/S 022-035789
Track access Consultancy support
Dublin 8
Iarnród Éireann - Irish Rail (IE) is the Irish national railway company in Ireland
wholly owned by the Irish government. It is a subsidiary of Córas Iompair
Éireann (CIE), the national transport company. Iarnród Éireann provides
passenger and freight rail services as well as operating Rosslare Europort.
Iarnród Éireann is organised into two divisions:
• The Infrastructure Manager (IM) is responsible for establishing, managing
and maintaining the railway infrastructure including traffic management, control,
command and signalling.
• The Railway Undertaking (RU) is responsible for the principal business of
providing services for rail transport of passengers and freight.
EU directive 2001/14/EC, now transposed into Irish Law as S.I. No. 249 of
2015, requires member states to implement a track access regime (TAR). As the
Iarnród Éireann IM and RU divisions are not considered to be sufficiently
independent of each other, given the structure of Iarnród Éireann, an
independent essential functions body (EFB) has been established within CIE to
perform the essential functions of capacity allocation and track access charging.
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