Joint Programming Committee Rail

The JPC Rail operates on the basis of the criteria defined in the Terms of Reference JPC Rail.

The mission of the CEN/CENELEC/ETSI JPC Rail is to coordinate, plan, programme, promote, facilitate and expediate the production and use of European Standards for the benefit of the sector in Europe.

JPC Rail meets once a year. In addition, the JPC Rail Chairman Core  Group meets on a management by exception basis.

Chairman: Vacancy
Secretary: Thierry Legrand

The JPC Rail constitues of representives from the railway industry (supply industry and networks), European/International professional organizations (such as UIC, AEIF, UNIFE, UITP), Railway Applications Technical Committee Chairman or project leaders.

CEN, CENELEC or ETSI central secretariats, TC Secretaries and CEN Consultants may also be invited.

The Chairman occasionally represents the railway applications sector at high level technical groups (such as CEN or CENELEC Technical Boards).

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History

The CEN/CENELEC Joint Programming Committee Rail was created in the early 1990s.

The main aim was to initiate European standardization activities in view of the support to European Union directives under development such as the (at that time) draft EC directive co-ordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in water, energy, transport and telecommunications sectors (now Directive 93/38/EEC).

In 1994, ETSI joined the programming committee which was subsequently renamed CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Joint Programming Committee (JPC) Rail.

The organization of the JPC Rail and of the JPC Rail Core was re-defined in spring 2007.