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Breda , Ansaldo STS, Bombardier Transportation, CAF, Faiveley, Invensys Rail, Knorr Bremse, Network Rail, Thales, Siemens, Strukton Rail, Trafikverket, Vossloh and UNIFE. Additional companies, e.g. leading railway undertakings, infrastructure managers and industrial partners, are about to join the initiative. Altogether, these European rail stakeholders are ready to commit themselves to bring 50% of an overall budget amounting to € 1 billion over a six to seven year period in the framework of the future Horizon 2020 Programme. As a significant part of this SHIFT²RAIL budget (around 25%) will be managed through open calls for proposals, this will also encourage the participation of numerous SMEs all over Europe. UNIFE is already working with the academia and research institutes and would also be happy to discuss this issue with the Irish Presidency of the EU. The Joint Technology Initiative has been presented to Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas and Research Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. UNIFE Members expressed their willingness to have the SHIFT 2 RAIL initiative approved by the European Commission, the Council and the Parliament in 2013 for an implementation in 2014. The final proposal has been officially presented to DG MOVE and DG RESEARCH on 13 July 2012 and is now in the hands of the European Commission for examination. An addendum to the SHIFT 2 RAIL proposal will be sent to the Commission in January 2013. UNIFE Members will present the progress on SHIFT 2 RAIL at a Rail Forum Europe dinner that will take place on 18 February 2013 at the European Parliament in Brussels. Representatives of the Irish Presidency of the EU are of course invited to participate in the dinner debate. UNIFE would be very happy to make a full presentation on the SHIFT²RAIL JTI to the Irish Presidency in Brussels or Dublin at the beginning of 2013. UNIFE calls upon the Council of the European Union to support SHIFT2RAIL, the rail sector’s Joint Technology Initiative, in this preparatory phase. 18
3.2. ERTMS UNIFE suggests that ERTMS is considered as a top priority throughout the Presidency to promote a fast and coordinated migration to ERTMS throughout the EU. To date, about 62000 km of tracks worldwide are contracted to be equipped with ERTMS or are already in service². The system is a proof of European excellence, and investments outside Europe now account for more than 50% of total ERTMS sales. In Europe, ERTMS has been successfully implemented in number of countries, and where this has been the case, infrastructure managers and operators are already reaping the benefits of their investments in terms of safety, speed and capacity (e.g. Spanish and Italian High Speed networks, high-density lines in Switzerland, etc.). A new Memorandum of Understanding on ERTMS involving the European Commission, the European Railway Agency and the railway associations (CER, UIC, UNIFE, EIM, GSM-R Industry Group and ERFA) was signed on 16 April 2012 during a Danish Presidency event in Copenhagen, jointly chaired by Danish Transport Minister Henrik Dam Kristensen and Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas. UNIFE calls upon the Member States to accelerate the deployment of ERTMS in Europe as a matter of urgency, especially on the six ERTMS corridors. ² Please see UNIFE ERTMS Deployment statistics on http://www.ertms-online.com/ 19
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