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Starting the year 2026 with determination and dedication

Dear CIT members,

For many, 2026 may have begun almost unnoticed. Not so for the CIT General Secretariat in Bern. As early as the first week of January, we set about implementing the work programme adopted by the CIT General Assembly in November 2025 with enthusiasm and great dedication.

The new CIT Strategy 2026-2030 and the individual lines of action planned for 2026 were presented at an interactive CIT Webinar on 29 January 2026. These fields action were taken forward by the CIV Working Group and the CIT Expert Group on Waste shipments and specific transport for passenger and freight transport respectively at their meetings in February, and you can read about all these legal fields of action in detail in this issue. You can also find out how the newly adopted TEL TSI of the European Union will shape the future of data exchange as an economic asset in the railway sector by 2029.

What would reality be without specific legal cases? In this issue of CIT NEWS, you can read about two of them in detail: one concerning data protection and another regarding the application of legal provisions at sector level.

In addition, the CIM Committee under the guidance of Julie Meunier (SNCF/Hexafret) took important strategic decisions for the further development of the CIT Freight Agenda and Products.

CIT remains involved in shaping future developments – as it has been for the last 125 years. You will read about this in more details in a forthcoming issue of CIT NEWS. For now, enjoy the first issue of 2026.

Yours,

Erik Evtimov

CIT Secretary General