As National Railway Infrastructure Manager, we publishe the Network Statement (NS), in pursuance of Legislative Decree 112/2015, in order to inform our clients about network characteristics and access condition and rules, criteria and conditions to allocate infrastructure capacity and to provide related services.

The NS is issued by Directive of RFI CEO based on consultations with the parties concerned (Railway Undertakings (RUs), Regions, Autonomous Provinces and Framework Agreement holders) and following the information provided by the Transport Regulation Authority (TRA).

In particular, NS is divided into 7 chapters:

• Section 1 – General information.
• Section 2 – Infrastructure: illustrates the general infrastructure characteristics necessary to appropriately draft and compile the capacity requests, while reference to the ePIR portal must be made for the relevant details.
• Section 3 – Access Conditions: contains the conditions for regulating access to and utilisation of the railway infrastructure, and managing the relevant Access Contract, in accordance with the applicable national regulations and the terms and conditions established by the Infrastructure Manager (IM).
• Section 4 – Capacity Allocation: describes the capacity request and allocation process, in terms of schedules, priority criteria and types of requests.
• Section 5 – Services and tariffs: describes the services included in the access charge, those provided by the infrastructure manager to the undertaking for an extra charge; as well as the reporting rules, in respect of the infrastructure Access Contract, and the system for calculating and levying the access charges, including the services not included therein.
• Section 6 – Execution of the contract: the obligations of the RU and IM, after signing the Path Access Agreement, with respect to the use of the capacity, and the criteria relating to the management of the circulation, including disruption, and of any operational incidents.
• Section 7 – Service facilities: the services, and the tariffs associated with them, in relation to facilities with guaranteed access rights pursuant to Article 13, paragraph 2, of Legislative Decree 112/2015.

NS is written in italian and published in RFI website, in accordance with the RNE Network Statement Common Structure. In addition, for full information at international level the document is also published in english.