Albania joins e-rail Agreement
Geneva, 7 June 2007 -- On 5 June 2007 Albania acceded to the European
Agreement on Main International Railway Lines (AGC), bringing the number of
Contracting Parties to this Agreement to 28.
The AGC provides the legal framework for the construction and development
of a coherent international rail network, the E-rail network. The Agreement
identifies the E-railway lines that channel major international rail traffic
flows throughout the UNECE region and establishes the minimum uniform technical
standards those railway lines must respect as well as a distinguishing number
for each E-rail line.
The AGC, which was drawn up under the auspices of the Inland Transport Committee
of the Economic Commission for Europe in 1985, has been regularly kept up
to date since then in order to take into account new developments in international
rail transport links in the UNECE region.
In addition to the major railway traffic lines in Western, Central, Eastern
and South-Eastern Europe, the AGC now includes main international rail routes
in the Caucasus and Central Asia, thereby facilitating the integration of
these economies into the European and the world economy.
The Agreement will enter into force for Albania on 3 September 2007.
For further information please contact:
José Capel Ferrer, Director, or
Miodrag Pesut, Economic Affairs Officer, Transport and
Infrastructure Development Section
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0) 22 917 2456
Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 0039
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.unece.org/trans/main/sc2/sc2.html
Ref: ECE/TRANS/07/N12