CFR Network Statement2026

          Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate “CFR” S.A.                                             Romania

Financial Guarantees

In order to guarantee the fulfilment of the RUs financial obligations towards CFR, CFR requests the establishment by the RUs/applicants of a financial guarantee under the conditions set out in the Implementing Regulation (EU) no. 2015/10 of the European Commission of January 6, 2015 regarding the criteria applicable to applicants for railway infrastructure capacities. The financial guarantee is requested by CFR in the conditions where a specialized credit rating assessment firm indicates difficulties of the RUs in making payments by the RUs. CFR contracted the credit rating assessment service with a specialized risk assessment firm, which assigns an assessment score on a scale between 0 (extremely high risk) and 10 (extremely low risk). The threshold established by CFR for the establishment of financial guarantees for contracts starting from 09.12.2018 represents the level of the credit rating score below the value of 4 (risk above the average level). RUs whose credit rating score, established by the evaluation firm, is below this threshold, must provide a guarantee covering the forecast value of IAC for at least two months of traffic.

This provision applies in a non-discriminatory manner to all RUs whose assessment is below the established threshold. Details regarding the guarantee can be found in Chapter 5 of the standard access contract (Annex 14 to

NS).

5.3       Minimum Access Package and Infrastructure Access Charge

Services for Minimum Access Package The minimum access package includes the services supplied by CFR in order to allow at least the transit of a train on the network, without shunting or (re)fuelling services. According to the provisions of Law No. 202/2016, CFR supplies to any applicant/RU, on a non-discriminatory basis, according to the availability of the railway infrastructure, the minimum access package including:

a) The processing of the requests for railway infrastructure capacity; It means the activity of analysing the applicants' requests for capacity for the traffic of the trains between two stations of the railway network, in principle during the validity period of a timetable, depending on the capacity and characteristics of the requested route. This includes the determination of the travelling times, the preparation and assembly of the train paths for designing the working timetable of the trains as well as the train path allocation. This also includes the preparation of additional train paths and the scheduling of the freight trains. For the specially ordered trains and for those with occasional traffic, this service is separately charged. b) The right to use the infrastructure capacity allocated; It means the right to use the infrastructure capacity allocated, in accordance with the provisions of Annex II paragraph 1(b) of Law No. 202/2016. c) The use of the railway infrastructure, including of the switches and junctions;

It means the actual use of the railway infrastructure by the RU’s trains in accordance with the allocated train paths and/or the timetable. d) The train traffic coordination including the signalling, regulation, dispatching as well as the communication and supply of information on train traffic;

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