Train Traffic Performance Regime on the CFR Network

CFR NETWORK STATEMENT - 2026 ANNEX 30 TRAIN TRAFFIC PERFORMANCE REGIME ON THE CFR NETWORK Validity: 14.12.2025 – 12.12.2026 Version: 15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România Content CHAPTER I – Object and scope ........................................................................................................................... 3 CHAPTER II - Definitions ...................................................................................................................................... 3 CHAPTER III - Principles of Train Traffic Performance Regime ....................................................................... 4 CHAPTER IV- Mode of application of Train Traffic Performance Regime ....................................................... 4 CHAPTER V - Periodic analysis of train delays records ................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER VI - The payment obligations resulting from the application for train timetabling in accordance with the timing of train traffic ............................................................................. 5 CHAPTER VII - Payment obligations resulting from the non-use of the traffic capacity (non-use of the scheduled path), in accordance with the time when requesting the non-use of the traffic capacity (the moment of communication of the train traffic cancellation). ........................ 6 CHAPTER VIII - Border crossing points of the railway network ...................................................................... 7 CHAPTER IX - Conciliation of divergences ........................................................................................................ 7 CHAPTER X - Coding of train delays .................................................................................................................. 7 CHAPTER XI - The modality to calculate and highlight the records of trains delay ...................................... 8 CHAPTER XII - The modality to calculate and highlight the records of the train traffic in accordance with the time of their traffic programming ...................................................................................... 8 CHAPTER XIII - The modality to calculate and highlight the records of unused paths (of trains with cancelled traffic) ....................................................................................................................... 9 CHAPTER XIV - Final and Transitional Provisions ............................................................................................ 9 CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 30 Version:15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 2 / 9  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România CHAPTER I – OBJECT AND SCOPE Art. 1. - (1) The introduction of Train Traffic Performance Regime on the CFR network aims at increasing the quality of railway services and satisfying the final beneficiaries of railway freight and passenger transport. (2) The Train Traffic Performance Regime on the CFR network aims at defining the process of ensuring an adequate response of the railway system to the deviations from the train traffic flow timetable on the CFR network, closing the quality circle by ensuring a documented process of making the necessary corrective measures in the event of deviations from the train traffic timetable on the CFR network. (3) The provisions of these Regulations shall apply to passengers and freight trains detailed below, which circulate on the public railway network in Romania, hereinafter referred to as the "CFR network". The railway infrastructure that connects the state railway border stations belonging to the CFR network and the state border stations belonging to the railway networks of the neighbouring countries to Romania, to which the provisions of the cross-border agreements and the conventions concluded by CFR with the railway infrastructure managers in neighbouring countries, is not part of the CFR network. The provisions of these regulations do not apply to isolated locomotives (a locomotive that moves between two points of the CFR network) to ensure the operability necessary for providing with hauling means of the planned trains. (4) The following types of trains are subject to these regulations on train delays: a) For the railway passenger transport undertakings: the trains operated by them, with the traffic approved by the daily traffic program, which have deviations of more than 20 minutes from the traffic timetable in the stations where the traffic timetable provides for stopping; b) For the railway freight undertakings: the trains operated by them, with the traffic approved by the daily traffic program, arriving at the destination station (i.e. the exit border station on the CFR network) with more than 60 minutes of delay from the time of arrival according to the approved path. CHAPTER II - DEFINITIONS Art. 2. - (1) The CFR network: the totality of public railway infrastructure in Romania (both the interoperable and the non-interoperable lines), except for the railway lines linking Romania's state borders with the state border stations of the neighbouring states. (2) Infrastructure manager: Infrastructure manager means both Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate ”CFR” S.A. (as an interoperable public infrastructure manager and traffic capacity allocation body as required by law), as well as non-interoperable railway infrastructure managers. (3) IAC: Charge for accessing public railway infrastructure, calculated according to legal provisions and regulations in force. (4) Deviation from the traffic timetable: the mathematical difference between the estimated time of arrival, departure or passing of a train through the train traffic timetable through a point on the rail network where the regularity of the traffic is measured and the actual time of arrival, departure or passing of the train through that point. Deviations are measured in minutes and can be: a) - delays, when they have the algebraic sign "+"; b) – advances, when they have the algebraic sign „-” CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 30 Version:15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 3 / 9  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România CHAPTER III - PRINCIPLES OF TRAIN TRAFFIC PERFORMANCE REGIME Art. 3. – (1) The Train Traffic Performance Regime shall include: (a) - the regularity of train traffic based on the calculation of the differences between the hours of traffic provided in the established paths for the use in the traffic schedule and the actual hours of traffic of the trains in question; (b) - the stability of the traffic program, by analysing the differences between the daily train traffic and their actual traffic times; (c) - the commercial speed of trains running on the CFR network; (d) - other quality parameters linked to the trains traffic. (2) The Train Traffic Performance Regime shall apply equally and non-discriminatory to all transport undertakings and CFR. The general requirements of the Train Traffic Performance Regime are: simplicity, transparency, accountability, economic efficiency, the use of measurable data so as not to lead to excessive, burdensome legal, administrative and financial effects for both transport undertakings and CFR. (3) Flexibility in the railway transport is an important factor due to the competition with other transport systems. The Train Traffic Performance Regime is defined by taking into account the achievement of this purpose. (4) All parties involved in the railway transport process have an obligation to act according to their competencies and attributions in order to reduce train delays. CHAPTER IV- MODE OF APPLICATION OF TRAIN TRAFFIC PERFORMANCE REGIME Art. 4. – (1) Regularity of train traffic is the main quality indicator of the Train Traffic Performance Regime. The criterion by which a train is registered in the Train Traffic Performance Regime is the deviation from the traffic timetable in accordance with the provisions of Art. 1 par. (4). (2) Trains delays shall be coded in accordance with the provisions of Chapter X. Coding of delays shall allow for the differentiation of the participant in the transport process which has generated the delays of the trains. The object of these regulations is: a) - The delays caused by CFR or by third parties being in contractual relations with CFR that provide one of its tasks; b) - The delays caused by the railway undertakings or by third parties in contractual relations with those that provide one of the tasks of the Railway Transport Undertakings; (c) - The delays caused by force majeure, by the governmental authorities or by third parties not having contractual relations with one of the parties listed above are not subject to these regulations. The following delays are also not subject to these regulations: • delays caused by waiting for the resumption of the traffic service on the sections where the traffic activity is suspended; • delays caused by accidental line closures; • delays caused by the impossibility of receiving freight trains at stations serving seaports, due to causes connected to port operators. Deviations from the agreed timetable following line closures, speed restrictions, and failures at SCB facilities will be mandatory set by the CFR in accordance with the "Train Traffic Performance Regime on CFR network. CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 30 Version:15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 4 / 9  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România On the saturated capacity sections declared as such by CFR in accordance with the legal provisions, the causes of the delays shall be analysed taking into account the reduced traffic capacity and the frequency of delays due to the lack of capacity reserve (which has the role of alleviating traffic disturbances and to reduce trains delays). For freight trains, the analysis of the delays directly caused by traffic on the saturated sections is not subject to the Train Traffic Performance Regime. Art. 5. CFR, as an infrastructure manager, keeps track in accordance with the legal provisions in force, of the train delays throughout the CFR network. The railway undertakings have access to the information recorded on the delays of the trains that have circulated on the railway infrastructure managed by them. The railway undertakings have access to the information recorded on the delays of the trains operated by each of them. Access is provided by IT applications dedicated to railway traffic (ATLAS or other similarly managed by CFR). Art. 6. Railway transport undertakings (RU) will validate the coding of their own train delays made by CFR through specific IT applications. Validation shall be performed for delays classified as generated by the railway transport undertaking (Class 5 or 6 encodings). When the railway undertakings do not agree with the classification established by CFR, they will propose another classification with the justification by explanation of that classification. Trains for which railway undertakings have requested another classification will be subject to the periodic review set out in Chapter V. CHAPTER V - PERIODIC ANALYSIS OF TRAIN DELAYS RECORDS Art. 7. CFR and the railway transport undertakings shall analyse monthly the data on train delays in the previous period. The documented data may modify the recorded data on train delays during the period under review if the parties agree thus. Failure to present at the agreed time and place to perform the analysis of one of the parties means acceptance by that party of the recorded data relating to train delays for the previous period in the registered form. Art. 9. The penalty fee for one minute of delay is ROL 0.2/ minute. The maximum monthly penalty amount owed by one of the parties may not exceed 1% of the total IAC of the respective railway transport undertaking for that month. This limit of 1% of the IAC value applies in the relationship between CFR and a railway transport undertaking. Art. 10. Details of how to calculate and highlight records of the train delays are provided in Chapter XI. CHAPTER VI - THE PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS RESULTING FROM THE APPLICATION FOR TRAIN TIMETABLING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TIMING OF TRAIN TRAFFIC Art. 11. – (1) This provision aims to motivate the railway transport undertakings to request paths for additional trains compared to the annual traffic timetable (when the existing paths in the annual traffic timetable do not satisfy the requirements of the railway transport undertakings) as soon as possible, thereby facilitating the best use of the traffic capacity and other resources used in the rail transport process, taking into account the train paths already allocated to other railway transport undertakings and the unavailability of the railway infrastructure due to the maintenance process. (2) These payment obligations are billed separately from penalties for train delays, but are part of the Train Traffic Performance Regime. Art. 12. If the train timetable is scheduled at the latest when the daily traffic program is established, then the railway transport undertaking shall not incur any additional payment to the IAC for that train. CFR Network Statement - 2026 ANNEX 30 Version:15.0.0 Update: 15.12.2024 Pag: 5 / 9  Compania Naţională de Căi Ferate “CFR” S.A. România Art. 13. If the timetabling of a train is scheduled after the completion of the daily routine, the party responsible for the cause of the request - the rail transport undertaking or CFR, depending on the coding of the request for train path programming) shall pay a penalty equal to 0.5% of the IAC value of the train running on that path. Art. 14. The maximum monthly value of penalties owed by one party may not exceed 0.5% of the IAC for that month. This limit of 0.5% of the IAC value is applied in the relationship between an infrastructure manager and a rail transport undertaking (RU). Art. 15. In cases of force majeure, trains that have been scheduled after the completion of the daily routing program, coded for the reason for requesting train schedules are not subject to these regulations and do not result in payment obligations to any party. When planning the traffic of additional trains over a daily route program on paths including RU saturated sections, they shall record the cause of the train traffic generation, according to the user manual for specific IT applications. CFR shall change the case only in well-justified cases. If the RU does not agree with the change in the CFR's case assignment, it shall request detailed analysis and conciliation at the dedicated meetings that take place after the end of the month. Art. 16. Details of the calculation and highlighting of the payment obligations resulting from the request for train traffic programming, in accordance with the time period from sending the request for programming to the requested time of departure of the train from the first station on the requested path is provided in Chapter XII. CHAPTER VII - PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS RESULTING FROM THE NON-USE OF THE TRAFFIC CAPACITY (NON-USE OF THE SCHEDULED PATH), IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TIME WHEN REQUESTING THE NON-USE OF THE TRAFFIC CAPACITY (THE MOMENT OF COMMUNICATION OF THE TRAIN TRAFFIC CANCELLATION). Art. 17. In the case of non-use of the traffic capacity, namely of cancellation of a scheduled train, the party responsible for this shall pay a penalty for cancelling the train traffic. Art. 18. If a train cannot travel on the assigned path, the responsible party must send the request for non-use of the scheduled path, respectively to announce the cancellation of the train traffic on the scheduled path. As far as possible this request should be sent, i.e. this announcement must be made as soon as possible before the scheduled departure time of the train from the first station on the requested path. Art. 19. If the request for non-use of the scheduled route or the cancellation of the train traffic on the scheduled route is made at the latest when drawing up the daily traffic schedule, then the railway transport undertaking shall not incur any additional payment. Art. 20. If the request for non-use of the scheduled path or cancellation of the train traffic on the scheduled path is made after the completion of the daily traffic program, then the party responsible for the cause of the request, the railway transport undertaking or CFR (depending on the coding related to the cause of the non-use of the path or the cancellation of the train traffic) shall pay a penalty equal to 0.1% of the IAC value of a train with the minimum tonnage that would have circulated on that path. Art. 21. The maximum monthly penalty amount owed by one party