UIP - International Union of Wagon Keepers
Budget
€300 — €0
EP Access
5
accredited persons
Staff
5
4.75 FTE
EU Grants
€250,000
Mission & Goals
Founded in 1950, the UIP - International Union of Wagon Keepers, with its seat in Brussels, is the umbrella association of national associations from 14 European Countries, thus representing more than 250 keepers with approximately 255,000 freight wagons, performing more than 50 % of the rail freight tonne-kilometres throughout Europe. The UIP represents its members' concerns at international level. By means of research, lobbying and focused cooperation with all stakeholders and organisations interested in rail freight transportation, the UIP wants to secure on the long term the future of rail freight transport.
EU Legislative Interests
CEF Regulation, TEN-T Regulation, SERA Directive, Interoperability Directive, ECM Regulation, Combined transport directive, Rail capacity proposal, revision of State aid rules for land transport, EU taxonomy, Horizon Europe, Data act, CRSD, Weights and Dimensions Directive, possible PFAS restriction, ERA Revision, military mobility package.
Communication Activities
All our Position papers can be found on our website: https://uiprail.org/publications/ 2025 - Open letter: trilogue negotiations on the railway capacity regulation - Open letter: preserving a dedicated European transport funding instrument under the future EU budget - Joint Statement on Combined Transport - Joint Sector Position Paper: Call for Successor to Europe’s Rail in Next EU Research Programme - Joint sector statement: calling for sustained support and serious firepower for the next CEF Transport - Joint Statement UIP & Industry: “longer and heavier trucks are not the solution, quite the opposite!” - Joint sector paper: A successor to Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking is crucial - Joint Statement: Rail Stakeholders’ Red Lines Following EU Council’s Deal on Trucks Weights and Dimensions 2024 - Joint study points out disastrous consequences of the Weights and Dimensions Directive amendments - Transport Coalition launches campaign for more CEF budget - SURVEY: public shares concerns over gigaliners in Europe - SECTOR FEEDBACK: consultation on future revisions of TSI - Sector states opinion in discussion about the future of EVN - UIP’s and ITCO’s common paper on PFAS ban -The Sector releases its Position Paper on Rail Capacity - Joint position paper: Call for the continuation of CEF in Transport
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Rail Forum Europe http://www.rail-forum.eu/ ELP European Logistics Platform
Organisation Members
http://uiprail.org/about/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.