Council Decision (EU) 2025/1251 of 16 June 2025 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the 17th session of the Committee of Technical Experts of the Intergovernmental Organi...

Official Journal of the European Union EN L series 2025/1251 27.6.2025 COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2025/1251 of 16 June 2025 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the 17th session of the Committee of Technical Experts of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) as regards the revision of the Uniform Technical Prescriptions applicable to the subsystem ‘rolling stock – locomotives and passenger rolling stock’, to the accessibility of the rail system for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility, to vehicle marking, to the subsystem ‘infrastructure’, and to the subsystem ‘Telematics applications for freight services’, and as regards the update of the Handbook for the implementation and application of the APTU and ATMF Uniform Rules THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 91, in conjunction with Article 218(9) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission, Whereas: (1) The Union acceded to the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail of 9 May 1980, as amended by the Vilnius Protocol of 3 June 1999 (the ‘COTIF’), by means of Council Decision 2013/103/EU (1) and the Agreement between the European Union and the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) on the Accession of the European Union to the COTIF Convention (2). (2) Pursuant to...