INFRASTRUCTURE OF SERBIAN RAILWAYS JSC NETWORK STATEMENT 2020 Adopted by the Shareholders of „Infrastructure of Serbian Railways “ JSC No: 5/2019-211-90 dated March 20, 2019 Effective as of Decembre 15, 2019 Applicable to 2019/2020 Timetable 2 Network Statement 2020 Amendments, corrections and interpretations No Subject Determined by the act no. Valid as of The Decision of the Shareholders of „Infrastrusture of Serbian 1. First amendments June 11th, 2019. Railways“ JSC No: 5/2019-224-95 as of June 11th 2019. Decision of the Shareholders of „Infrastrusture of Serbian November 18th, 2. Second amendments Railways“ JSC 2019. No: 5/2019-251-106 as of November 18th 2019. The Decision of the Shareholders of „Infrastrusture of Serbian December 16th, 3. Third amendments Railways“ JSC 2019. No: 5/2019-267-109 as of December 16th 2019. Decision of the Shareholders of „Infrastrusture of Serbian January 8th, 4. Fourth amendments Railways“ JSC 2020. No: 5/2020-269-111 as of January 8th 2020. Decision of the Shareholders of „Infrastrusture of Serbian 5. Fifth amendments March 23rd, 2020. Railways“ JSC No: 5/2020-274-114 as of March 23rd 2020. Decision of the Shareholders of „Infrastrusture of Serbian 6. Sixth amendments June 18th, 2020. Railways“ JSC No: 5/2020-282-117 as of June 18th 2020. Decision of the Shareholders of „Infrastrusture of Serbian September 21th, 7. Seventh amendments Railways“ JSC 2020. No: 5/2020-296-122 as of September 21th 2020. Decision of the Shareholders of „Infrastrusture of Serbian October 5th, 8. Eighth amendments Railways“ JSC 2020. No: 5/2020-300-123 as of October 5th 2020. 3 Network Statement 2020 CONTENTS GLOSSARY ...................................................................................................................................................... 8 1. GENERAL INFORMATION ......................................................................................................................11 1.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................11 1.1.1. Background Information on Infrastructure Manager ......................................................................11 1.1.2. Organisational Chart of Infrastructure Manager .............................................................................12 1.1.3. Contact details ................................................................................................................................13 1.2 Objective of the Network Statement ................................................................................................14 1.3 Legal Framework ..............................................................................................................................14 1.3.1 Regulations of the Republic of Serbia .............................................................................................14 1.3.2 International Regulations .................................................................................................................15 1.3.3 Acts of the Infrastructure Manager ..................................................................................................15 1.4 Legal Status ......................................................................................................................................15 1.4.1 General conditions ...........................................................................................................................15 1.4.2 Liability ...........................................................................................................................................15 1.4.3 Appeals Procedure ...........................................................................................................................15 1.5 Structure of Network Statement .......................................................................................................16 1.6 Effectiveness of and Amendments to Network Statement ...............................................................17 1.6.1 Validity Period of Network Statement ............................................................................................17 1.6.2 Updating Process .............................................................................................................................17 1.7 Publishing, Distribution and Availability of the Network Statement ...............................................17 1.8 Contacts ............................................................................................................................................17 1.9 Rail Freight Corridors .......................................................................................................................18 1.10 RailNetEurope ..................................................................................................................................18 1.10.1 One Stop Shop - OSS ....................................................................................................................19 1.10.2 RNE tools ......................................................................................................................................19 2. CONDITIONS FOR ACCESS TO AND USE OF RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE ..............................20 2.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................20 2.2 General access requirements ............................................................................................................20 2.2.1 Requirements for the submission of requests for train path allocation ............................................20 2.2.2 Entities permitted to provide railway transport services .................................................................20 2.2.3 Transport License ............................................................................................................................21 2.2.4 Safety Certificates ...........................................................................................................................21 2.2.5 Cover for Civil Liability (Insurance) ...............................................................................................22 2.3 General Terms and Conditions of Business......................................................................................22 2.3.1 Contract for Use of Public Railway Infrastructure ..........................................................................22 2.3.2 Framework Agreement ....................................................................................................................23 2.4 Operating Rules ................................................................................................................................23 2.5 Transport of Special Loads ...............................................................................................................23 2.6 Transport of Dangerous Goods .........................................................................................................24 2.7 Rolling Stock Acceptance Procedure ...............................................................................................24 2.8 Acceptance Procedure for Railway Undertaking’s staff ..................................................................24 3. OVERVIEW OF OPERATIONAL AND TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AVAILABLE RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESTRICTIONS TO ITS USE ......................................................25 3.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................25 3.2 Network Size ....................................................................................................................................25 3.2.1 Borders ............................................................................................................................................25 3.2.2 Network Connections ......................................................................................................................25 3.3 Description of railway network ........................................................................................................27 3.3.1 Geographic data ...............................................................................................................................27 3.3.2 The characteristics of the railway infrastructure .............................................................................29 3.3.3 The traffic control (regulation) and communication equipment and systems .................................32 3.4 Traffic restrictions ............................................................................................................................35 3.4.1 Specialised Infrastructure ................................................................................................................35 3.4.2 Environmental restrictions ...............................................................................................................35 4 Network Statement 2020 3.4.3 Dangerous goods .............................................................................................................................35 3.4.4 Tunnel restrictions ...........................................................................................................................36