CFR Network Statement2026

ay also submit a complaint to the National Railway Supervisory Council (CNSDF), an independent body, established in accordance with Law No. 202/2016 to the following contact data: The National Railway Supervision Council Address: 1 Piata Presei Libere, 1 Bucharest, Romania, Mail code: 013701; Phone: +40214054450 Fax: +40214054447 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.consiliulferoviar.ro 1.4 Structure of the Network Statement This NS was prepared for presenting the services supplied by CFR in its capacity as manager of the Romanian railway infrastructure, in accordance with the indicative structure in the Guide prepared by RailNetEurope 2026 CFR Network Statement Version: 15.1.6 Section: General Information A Page Date: 29.05.2026 16 of 98  Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate “CFR” S.A. Romania (the Association of European Railway Infrastructure Managers), https://rne.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024- 05-16_NS_CS_TT_2026.pdf and is structured as follows: SECTION 1 General Information – presents the objectives and the overview of the NS; SECTION 2 Infrastructure – presents the description of the railway network, the technical characteristics, the organisation of the railway traffic operation, and the service facilities; SECTION 3 Access Conditions - presents the general access requirements to be fulfilled by any applicant for using the railway infrastructure, and the operational rules; SECTION 4 Capacity Allocation - presents the description of infrastructure capacity allocation process; SECTION 5 Services and charges - presents the services to be supplied to the railway undertakings in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 202/2016 and the relevant charges, including the invoicing modalities; SECTION 6 Operations - presents the information on the rules to be complied with during the traffic and shunting activities. SECTION 7 Service Facilities – presents the information on the service facilities operated by CFR, as well as the information provided by the operators of service facilities with regard to the service facilities operated by them. 1.5 Validity Period, Updating and Publishing Validity Period This version is valid for the 2025/2026 Timetable, commencing with the date of 14 December 2025, until the date of 12 December 2026. It remains valid until relevant changes occur determining the preparation and publishing of the next version. The NS is published no later than 4 months before the deadline for the submission of the requests for infrastructure capacity. The NS draft is subject to the review by the interested parties for 2 months before the publication. Updating a) Principles - The version of the NS DRAFT that will enter into force after the expiry of the validity period of the next timetable, is annually made available on the CFR website, for consultation by the interested parties, usually on the second Saturday of December of the current year. Until the date of 25 January of the following year, the interested parties will submit proposals related to the NS Draft on their own initiative, if applicable. If no comments are submitted, CFR SA will consider that there are no objections to the Draft Network Statement. - The operators of service facilities (OSF) will annually send to CFR, at the email address: [email protected], the updated data regarding the description of the service facilities in accordance with Article 5(1) of EU Regulation 2017/2177 on access to service facilities and rail-related services, with a view to including them in the NS draft, until the date of 5 January of each year. If there are no updates/changes to this data, OSF will communicate this to CFR at the email address indicated above. 2026 CFR Network Statement Version: 15.1.6 Section: General Information A Page Date: 29.05.2026 17 of 98  Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate “CFR” S.A. Romania - CFR will publish the final version of the NS no later than 4 months before the deadline for the submission of the requests for infrastructure capacity for the next timetable. b) Stages of the process of updating the 2025-2026 NS  Preparation and publishing of the 2025-2026 NS DRAFT to be reviewed by the interested parties: Deadline: 15.12.2024.  Submission of the link or of the up-to-date information on the service facilities by the operators of service facilities: Deadline: 06.01.2025.  Receipt of the comments from the interested parties within the consultation process: Deadline: 25.01.2025.  Publishing of the final version of the NS resulting from the interested party consultation process: Deadline: 10.02.2025  Entry into force of the NS: Deadline: 13.12.2025. In accordance with Article 27(3) of Law No. 202/2016, the NS “shall be regularly updated and modified as necessary”. CFR will regularly update the NS in order to include additional information or to update the already presented information. The modifications made during the validity period will keep the initial number of the version followed by the extension of the order number of the relevant modification (e.g. NS 8.3 will be the third modification of the NS 8.0), and will be highlighted in the table on page ii which contains the date of making and entering into force of the modifications, the indication of the amended paragraphs, and the nature of the modifications. In accordance with Article 27(2) and Annex IV of Law No. 202/2016, the operators of railway service facilities and the managers of the leased railway infrastructures “shall submit the specific information to be included in the Network Statement or shall indicate a website where this information is available free of charge, in electronic format”. Publishing The NS is available in Romanian and English, free of charge, on the CFR website: www.cfr.ro. Upon request, a hard copy may be made available against payment, if available. The Romanian version prevails against the English version. 1.6 Contacts For comments and additional information regarding the NS please do not hesitate to contact us: Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate - CFR SA, Traffic Directorate Address: 38 Dinicu Golescu Blvd., 1 Bucharest 010873, Romania Web: www.cfr.ro Phone: +40 21 319 25 10 Fax: +40 21 319 25 11 2026 CFR Network Statement Version: 15.1.6 Section: General Information A Page Date: 29.05.2026 18 of 98  Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate “CFR” S.A. Romania E-mail: [email protected] Moreover, the NS may be accessed on the RNE website which also includes the NSs of the other European railway administrations that are RNE members. The Internet address where one can access the NSs of the European railway administrations that are RNE members is: https://rne.eu/organisation/network- statements/. 1.7 Cooperation Between European IMs Rail Freight Corridors In 2010, the European Parliament and Council drafted Regulation (EU) No. 913/2010 which sets out rules for creating a European rail network for competitive freight, consisting in organizing and managing the international freight corridors. The purpose of these rules is to supply safe and quality services for a high quality railway transport, and to enable it to compete with other modes of transport. The main objective for initiating the Regulation was to improve the services supplied by the infrastructure managers to the international freight railway undertakings. Several initiatives have contributed to the creation of the concept of corridors: the First Railway Package, the TEN-T (Trans-European Transport Network) programme, the cooperation between the Member States, and the collaboration between the infrastructure managers within the ERTMS as well as the implementation of the TAF TSI (Technical Specifications for Interoperability relating to the telematics applications for freight). By means of Regulation 913/2010, the European Union intends to act in the following main areas corresponding to the harmonization process:  improving of the coordination between the infrastructure managers,  improving of the infrastructure access conditions,  giving sufficient priority to freight trains,  improving of the inter-modality along the corridors. The coordination and operative management structures of a freight corridor are the Executive Committee consisting of the representatives of the Ministries of Transport and, respectively, the Management Board consisting of the representatives of the railway infrastructure managers, and of the railway capacity allocation bodies on the corridor route. “Rhine-Danube” Rail Freight Corridor (RFC) The Rail Freight Corridor No. 7 (RFC 7) “Orient/East-Mediterranean”: the Northern branch goes through Curtici-Sighisoara-Brasov-Bucuresti-Constanta, and is 858 km long, being 100% electrified, whereas the Southern branch goes through Curtici-Timisoara-Caransebes-Orsova-Craiova-Calafat, and is 507 km long, 399 km of electrified line (79%) and 108 km of non-electrified line (21%). The Craiova-Calafat Section (108 km) is not electrified, but is planned for electrification within a project to be completed at the end of the year 2025. The Corridor Secretariate is headquartered in Budapest, being organized by MAV (The Hungarian State Railways). The details regarding this corridor may be found on: https://www.rfc7.eu/ “Rhine-Danube” Rail Freight Corridor Romania is crossed by the RFC 9 "Rhine-Danube" freight railway corridor. On the territory of Romania, the route of the Rhine-Danube freight railway corridor is composed of the Northern Branch Curtici-Sighișoara- 2026 CFR Network Statement Version: 15.1.6 Section: General Information A Page Date: 29.05.2026 19 of 98  Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate “CFR” S.A. Romania Bucharest-Constanța, which totals 858 km, 100% electrified, and the Southern Branch, Curtici-Timișoara- Caransebeș-Orșova-Craiova-Bucharest-Constanța, which totals 831 km, 100% electrified. The Secretariat of the Corridor is located in Budapest, organized by MAV (Hungarian State Railways). The details regarding this corridor may be found on: http://rfc-rhine-danube.eu/ Regulation (EU) No. 913/2010 sets out the preparation of a Corridor Information Document (CID) for each RFC, to be drawn up, published and regularly updated by the RFC Management Board in accordance with the framework structure developed by RailNet Europe (RNE). In accordance with Article 18 of Regulation (EU) No. 913/2010, the CID shall comprise:  all the information contained in the network statement of national networks regarding the freight corridor;  the list and characteristics of terminals;  the information concerning capacity allocation and traffic management, including in the event of disturbance;  the implementation plan which includes:  the characteristics of the Rail Freight Corridor  the essential elements of the market study for the transports that should be regularly carried out  the objectives for the Rail Freight Corridor  the indicative investment plan. The CID for the validity period of the Y Timetable shall be published until the 2nd Monday of January of the year Y-1. The information regarding the CID for RFC 9 can be found on the following website: https://rfc-rhine-danube.eu/cid-books/ In 2024, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 2024/1679 on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network, amending Regulations (EU) 2021/1153 and (EU) No 913/2010 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013. This Regulation identifies the European transport corridors of greatest strategic importance based on the priority sections of the trans-European network and projects of common interest and specifies the requirements to be met for the development and implementation of the infrastructure of the trans- European transport network. Currently, according to EU Regulation No 1679/2024, the former railway routes of the TEN-T network related to the 2 corridors on the territory of Romania (Rhine-Danube and Orient/East-Med) are included in Rhine-Danube Corridor, with two branches: • Vienna - Bratislava - Budapest - Oradea - Sălaj - Cluj Napoca - Coșlariu/Sibiu - Brașov - Ploiești/Bucharest - (Buzău - Fetești) - Constanța; • Vienna - Bratislava - Budapest - Arad - Coșlariu / Timișoara - Stamora Moravița / Craiova - Bucharest – Constanța 2026 CFR Network Statement Version: 15.1.6 Section: General Information A Page Date: 29.05.2026 20 of 98  Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate “CFR” S.A. Romania RailNetEurope and Other International Cooperation a) RailNetEurope (RNE) In 2004, a number of European railway infrastructure managers and allocation bodies decided to establish a common organisation, called RailNetEurope (RNE) and headquartered in Vienna, to solve the operational issues in the international railway field. The details regarding the RNE organisation and objectives are set out in Annex 3. Since October 2004, CFR is a member of RNE, and cooperates with the IMs in other states which are not members of RNE in order to efficiently prepare and allocate some train paths involving several railway networks. The RNE presentation and projects can be found on the website: http://www.rne.eu rne.eu b) The Platform of Rail infrastructure Managers in Europe (PRIME) The representative body called PRIME was established in 2013, with the headquarters in Brussels, on the proposal of the European Commission, and is an organized form of promoting the intentions of the railway infrastructure managers, the relevant associations and the Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), to enhance cooperation and collaboration with a view to improving the European railway area. The presentation of this body can be found on: https://ec.europa.eu/transport/modes/rail/news/2016-06-03-prime-members-and-chair_en . CFR is a member of the “Platform of Rail Infrastructure Managers in Europe” (PRIME) since July 2016. The organizational structure of PRIME consists of the Plenary Meeting (decision-making body co-chaired by the European Commission and the railway infrastructure managers) and 6 working subgroups: 1) Infrastructure charging 2) Key Performance Indicators 3) Infrastructure financing 4) Railway safety culture 5) Digitalisation 6) The European network of the railway regulating bodies. TEN-T network corridors rs By Regulations (EU) No. 1316/2013 and 1679/2024, the European Commission established the Trans- European Transport Network (TEN-T) as a multimodal network comprising roads, railways, inland waterways, inland and maritime ports, airports and terminals. The TEN-T is composed of the following layers: (1) The comprehensive network comprises all existing and planned transport infrastructures of the trans- European transport network, as well as measures to promote the efficient and socially and environmentally sustainable use of this infrastructure. (2) The core network and the extended core network comprise those parts of the trans-European transport network which need to be developed as a priority and completed in accordance with the deadlines set out in the Regulation, in order to achieve the objectives of developing the trans-European transport network. Also, Regulation No. 1679/2024 established a new TEN-T transport corridor: The TEN-T corridor Baltic Sea - Black Sea - Aegean Sea (BALTIC SEA -BLACK SEA -AEGEAN SEA).  Statele Baltice - Polonia cu ramurile: - Slovacia - Ungaria - Romania (cu conexiune pe coridorul Rin-Dunăre până la Constanța) 2026 CFR Network Statement Version: 15.1.6 Section: General Information A Page Date: 29.05.2026 21 of 98  Compania Nationala de Cai