Latest news

December 2021:

• New password for Excel downloads will be necessary from 1-1-2022
• Last Steering Group meeting of 2021 on 9^th of December

October 2021

• New working Group Exterior Hatches and panels has been started. By standardisation the influence of human errors during maintenance can be reduced. DB, SCNF, NS, EuroStar en OBB have joined this group.
• Exchange with OEM’s and suppliers has been improved: more flexible and accessible during the entire development process of the EuroSpec.

September 2021

• Presentation of EuroSpec Alternative Energy held at ERESS conference
• Feedback button per EuroSpec on website installed to make exchange of opinions much easier.

June 2021:

• Maintenance Software – New working Group started. Objective is to specify a common reference frame for the maintenance software applications of rolling stock ‘s electronic onboard control units. SNCF, NS, SBB amd RDG are joining this group.

April 2021

• 3th updated version of Requirements Management templates have been uploaded on the website

• Vision and Mission EuroSpec 2020 has been available via Linked-in.
• Eurospec Parking Noise  is mentioned in UIC white paper on acoustics (dated February 2020)
• Eurospec requirement in a future EN for Toilets: special task for Chairman group.

• New version 3 EuroSpec toilets available. New experiences of operators and suppliers have been incorporated.
• Ralf Marxen is the new DB representative in Steering Group. Ralf is the Head of external technical affairs & Head of Project Shift2Rail at Deutsche Bahn AG.
• Dialogue with OEM and suppliers to next level. After having a MoU with UNIFE for several years, EuroSpec and UNIFE agreed on a more flexible and direct dialogue with the UNIFE members. This will have its positive effect the EuroSpec specifications.
• Based on the ongoing developments and changing positions EuroSpec Steering Group is redefining the vision and mission of this initiative. Around summer 2020 this will be available.
• New EuroSpec expected in 2020: Seat comfort, Common ID’s and Watertightness. And beside this also a document for common definitions for EuroSpec.
• Working plan 2020 is uploaded on the website.

• June 2019: New EuroSpec ‘Parking Noise v1.0’ available on eurospec.eu
• June 2019: A new EuroSpec ‘Seat-comfort’ in the final validation stage. The EuroSpec will be expected before end of 2019.
• June 2019: New Working Group ‘On-board Data Availability’ started.
• May 2019: nine legal acts have been adopted by the European Commission on May 16th in the light of the start of the 4^th Railway Package’s Technical Pillar on 16^th June 2019. Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) is expected end of May 2019. The legal acts are Revision Noise TSI, TSI Package + ERATV, OPE TSI, RINF, Recommendation practical arrangements on safety authorisations, TAP TSI CCM, TAF TSI CCM, Revision PRM TSI on inventory of assets and New ECM Regulation

• March 2019: Major interest of EuroSpec members in topic ‘Rolling Stock Software handling, a technical specification to update software’.
• April 2019: MoU with UNIFE extended in.  In order to improve our specifications the cooperation with UNIFE is very important for EuroSpec. Valuable input from manufacturers and suppliers point of view.
• April 2019: Meeting Management EuroSpec and Round table Rail in April: good alignment of activities and planning for better trains in near future.
• May 2019: Second version ‘Sliding Step’ available on website.
• May 2019: New Working Group ‘Alternative traction energy supply and related infrastructure interfaces ’ started.
• May 2019: XLS format of EuroSpec specifications become available.
• 27^th May 2019: The legal acts, part of the Technical pillar of the 4th Railway Package, were published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU). Such as the Revision Noise TSI, TSI Package + ERATV, OPE TSI and the RINF:  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2019:139I:TOC