Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/253 (TAF TSI)

means access node as defined in Article 2, point (25), of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1926;

means the right to consult the data with or without control over it, distinctively from other rights and obligations relating to its use for non-commercial or commercial purposes;

means a set of functions, procedures, definitions and protocols for interoperable data sharing between telematics applications;

means applicant as defined in Article 3, point (19), of Directive 2012/34/EU;

means the railway undertaking’s digital system that hosts the online catalogue of individual rail transport services and that enables distributors to check the availability of those services and make reservations;

means a transport document referred to in Article 6 of Council Regulation No 11;

means a machine-readable representation of acts, facts or information and any compilation of such acts, facts or information intended to be shared in a harmonised and structured format;

means a field, value, or attribute of the data shared, which is structured in a consistent manner with the overall protocol used for data sharing and carries essential information that contributes to the meaning and purpose of the data shared, enabling data sharing between systems, applications or organisations;

means a natural or legal person that has the right to use or an obligation to produce and make available data;

means the degree of fitness for use at which the characteristics of data satisfy the stated and implied level of accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness and uniqueness of datasets, and create actionable insights for other users under specified conditions.

means a natural or legal person that has the right to access the data produced and made available by the data holder under specified access conditions for use;

means the provision of data by a data holder to a data recipient for the purpose of the joint or individual use of such data, directly or through an intermediary, for example under open or commercial licences subject to a fee or free of charge;

means a rail transport service that may include intermediate commercial stops between its origin and destination but does not involve any transfer of passengers or freight between trains;

means an entity that, deriving from contractual provisions, has:

means the entity that has issued the consignment information to the relevant freight railway undertaking and which may be a logistics service provider, an intermodal transport operator, a freight forwarder, a fleet manager of empty wagons, or where relevant the data holder, that has concluded a contract of carriage covering transport services for goods;

means an entity that organises freight transport services connecting two or more freight terminals with more than one transport mode;

means an entity that has the legal and technical capacity, deriving from contractual provisions, to issue, for a retailer, a ticket on which the parties to the contract of carriage are indicated;

means an end-to-end trip of a passenger or a load that can include multiple legs;

means a search engine used to find an optimal journey based on defined criteria set out by its user;

means a group of stations within a functional urban area, including one or more urban nodes listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2024/1679, that may extend across multiple Member States and where distinct stations can be reached by connecting urban transport modes and urban transport services, whether scheduled or unscheduled;

means metadata as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854;

means the minimum amount of time that is sufficient for a passenger to connect between the access nodes of two consecutive passenger transport services included in a journey;

means a process that is affected by the operation of a rail transport service across two or more networks managed by different infrastructure managers or operators of rail freight service facilities;

means a national access point within the meaning of Article 3 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1926;

means the aggregated data established by a distributor combining applicable tariffs that include the rail product price due by the retailer to the distributor and which may vary from the price set out by the railway undertaking due to the application of automated pricing rules, discounts or other commercial conditions;

means operators of service facilities as defined in Article 3, point (12), of Directive 2012/34/EU, that provide services necessary for operating a freight rail transport service and whose service facilities are listed in point (2), subpoints (b), (c), (d) and (g), of Annex II to Directive 2012/34/EU and are connected to the trans-European transport network as specified in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2024/1679, limited to the multimodal freight terminals identified pursuant to Article 36 of that Regulation;

means the date and time of passenger rail transport services operated as a commercial service by a railway undertaking during a given time interval that are used in the context of rail ticketing and rail passenger travel information referred to in Section 4 of the Annex;

means a person with disabilities and person with reduced mobility as defined in point 2.2 of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1300/2014 (‘PRM TSI’);

means the alighting time for passengers, that is the point in time when the doors of the train are opened at the destination platform or terminal and disembarkation is allowed for passengers;

means the boarding time limit for passengers, that is the point in time when access to the train, platform or station is closed in preparation for departure and after which passengers are no longer allowed to board and that takes into account the time that may be required for the check-in of passengers, bicycles, or luggage;

means public sector body as defined in Article 2, point (28), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854;

means a tailored service in relation to a passenger rail transport service linked to a tariff;

means the process comprising at least one of the following for passenger rail transport services:

means a scheduled service for carriage by rail between a point of departure and a point of arrival and covers transport services for goods, passengers, luggage, bicycles or cars, and tailored transport arrangements, as well as passenger assistance including services for re-routing and journey continuation;

means a data set of standardised and interoperable single identifiers to be used as a basis for data sharing in a specific domain;

means a reservation as defined in Article 3, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782;

means an entity that:

means shunting movements as defined in Table 1 of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/773 (‘OPE TSI’);

means a station manager as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782;

means the aggregated data established by a railway undertaking, or, where relevant, by the data holder, that provides all relevant details of a tariff, including the rail transport service price due by a distributor to the railway undertaking and the associated attributes and conditions;

means an organisation empowered to inspect passenger tickets, including at platform access doors;

means the following data holders or data recipients whose activities entail the use of telematics applications for passenger and freight services’:

means a ticket as defined in Article 3, point (7), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782;

means Union bodies as defined in Article 2, point (27), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854;

means working timetable as defined in Article 3, point (28), of Directive 2012/34/EU that is used for capacity and traffic management as referred to in Section 2 of the Annex to this Regulation;

means the price associated to a tariff resulting from the application of an algorithm based on variables, referred to as the yielding rule;