
Article 1 
The position to be adopted on the Union's behalf within the Committee of Technical Experts of the Convention concerning International Carriage by Rail of 9 May 1980 as regards the amendments to points 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 of the Uniform Technical Prescriptions — General provisions — Subsystems (UTP GEN-B) and to the Uniform Technical Prescriptions — Telematics applications for freight services (UTP TAF) is set out in the attachment to this Decision.
Article 2 
The decisions of the CTE, once adopted, shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union, indicating the date of their entry into force.
Article 3 
This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.
Done at Brussels, 26 November 2018.
For the Council
The President
J. BOGNER-STRAUSS
ATTACHMENT
1. 
' 2.1. 
COTIF includes infrastructure only to the extent related to interfaces with the vehicles. Therefore, the infrastructure subsystem only includes the track and points.
 2.2. 
COTIF includes the energy system only to the extent related to interfaces with the vehicles. Therefore, the energy subsystem only includes the overhead lines (catenary) and the quality of the power supplied.
 2.3. 
COTIF includes the trackside control-command and signallingthis only to the extent related to the interfaces with the vehicles.
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2. To vote positively on the CTE proposed amendments to UTP TAF, which involves the updating of the List of Technical Documents in UTP TAF with the corresponding new revived List in (Appendix I) of the TAF TSI.
