Laws and regulations

National law determining the activities of the Authority:

• Railway Law;

• Cabinet Regulation No. 13, 04.01.2005, Bylaw of the State Railway Administration;

• Cabinet Regulation No. 489, 29.12.1998, Procedures for the State Registration and Accounting of Railway Infrastructure (Track);

• Cabinet Regulation No. 411, 20.10.1998, Regulations Regarding the Breakdown of Infrastructure for Strategic and Regional Interest;

• Cabinet Regulation No. 215, 15.05.2018. On the granting of the status of public-use railway infrastructure;

• Cabinet Regulation No. 200, 29.03.2022. Procedures for the Registration of Railway Rolling Stock;

• Cabinet Regulation No. 558, 16.08.2016. Regulations Regarding Licensing of Railway Carriers;

• Cabinet Regulation No. 472, 15.07.2016. Regulations Regarding the Capacity Sharing of Public Use Rail Infrastructure;

• Cabinet Regulation No. 244, 19.04.2016. Regulations regarding the content of the public use railway infrastructure network review;

• Cabinet Regulations No. 245,19.04.2016. Regulations Regarding Accounting Information to be submitted to the State Railway Administration;

• Cabinet Regulation No. 217, 29.04.2014. By-law of the Advisory Council on the Railway of Historic Heritage;

• Cabinet Regulation No. 540, 25.08.20202020, Regulations Regarding Services provided by the Public Use Railway Infrastructure Manager in Border Areas.

The State Railway Administration shall, as the regulatory body of the railway sector, implement the functions specified in the EU railway legislation: 

• DIRECTIVE 2012/34/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 21 November 2012 establishing a single European railway area
• COMMISSION DELEGATED DECISION (EU) 2017/2075 of 4 September 2017 replacing Annex VII to Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a single European railway area
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/1100 of 7 July 2015 on the reporting obligations of the Member States in the framework of rail market monitoring
• REGULATION (EU) No 913/2010 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 22 September 2010 concerning a European rail network for competitive freight
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/545 of 7 April 2016 on procedures and criteria concerning framework agreements for the allocation of rail infrastructure capacity
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/909 of 12 June 2015 on the modalities for the calculation of the cost that is directly incurred as a result of operating the train service
• REGULATION (EC) No 1371/2007 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 October 2007 on rail passengers rights and obligation
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/171 of 4 February 2015 on certain aspects of the procedure of licensing railway undertaking
• COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2019/777 of 16 May 2019 on the common specifications for the register of railway infrastructure and repealing Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU
• COMMISSION DECISION of 10 February 2011 amending Decision 2007/756/EC adopting a common specification of the national vehicle register

• Agreement between the European Union and the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail on the Accession of the European Union to the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) of 9 May 1980 , as amended by the Vilnius Protocol of 3 June 1999
• Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) Appendix C – Regulations concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail (RID)
• Annex 2 to the Agreement on International Rail Freight Traffic (SMGS) of 1 November 1951, Regulations on the Carriage of Dangerous Goods