Further developments

1. The Agency, taking into account the result of a cost-benefit analysis, shall update the RINF application by 1 January 2021 in order to:

streamline the process of updating data in the RINF Application in order to allow infrastructure managers to update information as soon as it becomes available;

improve the description of the network so as to display its geometry accurately;

provide information regarding possible routing on the network;

provide means for alerting railway undertakings regarding changes in the RINF Application relevant to them.

2. By 16 January 2022, the Agency, taking into account the result of a cost-benefit analysis, shall update the RINF application to enable the collection and insertion of information necessary for the Route Book referred to in Appendix D2 to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/773 ( 3 ) . Each Member State shall ensure that its register of infrastructure provides the information necessary for the Route Book one year after the RINF Application has been updated.

3. Further developments of the RINF application may create a data system feeding into all electronic information flows in respect of the Union rail network.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2019/777 of 16 May 2019 on the common specifications for the register of railway infrastructure and repealing Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU ANNEX