We fully support the overall objectives pursued by the European Commission in its Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy (1) to make all transport modes more sustainable and (2) to make current sustainable alternatives such as railway widely available in intermodal end-to-end logistic supply chains with the aim to shorten the road operations as much as possible.
UIR
UIRR
Industry association · Belgium · EU Transparency Register 49307536642-11
9
positions filed
in the 665 files tracked
9
legislative files
of 665 tracked
5
with a full position paper
attached to a submission
Counts here are a floor, never a total: they cover the 665 consultation files tracked so far (57,774 submissions, mostly 2021–26), so an organization's real filing history is larger, not smaller.
Who they are
Among the 1518 trade and business associations on this site, they rank #403 by legislative files engaged, a count of participation, not a measure of influence.
2
declared lobbying FTE
self-declared
€200K+
declared costs / yr (floor)
2
EP accreditations
as declared to the register
2011
in the register since
Declares membership of
- UIRR is formally not a member of any legal organisation or body.
- There is regular collaboration between UIRR and peer organisations (in alphabetical order) such as
- Allianz Pro Schiene
- Association of the European Rail Industry (UNIFE)
- Combinet (Austria)
- Community of European Railways and Infrastructure Companies (CER)
- European Association for Forwarding
- Transport →
- Logistic and Customs Services (CLECAT)
- European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC)
- European Barge Union (EBU) →
- European Shipowners Association (ECSA)
- and 27 more
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026).
- Register category
- Trade and business associations
- Registered as
- UIRR, International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR)
- Head office
- Brussel, Belgium
Self-declared to the EU Transparency Register (snapshot 14 Oct 2026); cost bands are floors, not audited totals. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
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Their record over time
UIRR filed 9 positions between 12 Feb 2020 and 30 Sept 2025, across 9 of the 665 legislative files tracked here, attaching a full position paper 5 times.
2020 · 2 filed2021 · 1 filed2022 · 3 filed2024 · 1 filed2025 · 2 filed
What they argued
The environmental impact of large companies - especially in the manufacturing and commercial sectors - is significant. Their choice of logistics practices and freight transport services has an immense impact. Energy efficiency, carbon-, pollutant- and noise emissions should be used as the major indicators.
UIRR applauds the Commission’s proposal to amend the TEN-T Regulation. The proposal can be further refined from the perspective of the European intermodal freight transport sector, which is outlined in the position paper published today [attached to this comment]. The following 6 points are recommended to the EU legislators by UIRR: 1.
UIRR as the industry association of European Combined Transport welcomes the launch of the revision of the Combined Transport Directive. The extension of scope concerning the benefits granted in the Directive to any intermodal or multimodal transport operation that delivers a meaningful contribution in savings of harmful externalities of road-only transport is to be greeted.
The European intermodal freight transport community of UIRR can provide a vital contribution to 2 of the 3 identified objectives: - dual-use infrastructure: an economically and quickly implementable solution - transport capacity: the availability of railway rolling stock The framework to ensure that adequate (railway) infrastructure capacity is made available and the regulatory aspects of military/dangerous goods…
Largely agreeing with the diagnosis provided with the initiative, UIRR would hereby express its preference for Option 2 with the following annotations: 1. Option 1 has been the path pursued for the past decade, and it has clearly failed. Member State (+sector)-driven initiatives did not deliver the desired results.
UIRR is the voice of the intermodal freight in Europe and represents the interests of the intermodal freight operators and the terminal managers in Europe. UIRR welcomes the initiative of the Commissions draft Implementing Regulation on TSI Telematics, which aims at intensifying and improving the digital data sharing among the telematics stakeholders based on standardised data messages and alternative access options…
UIRR supports the initiative for designating 2021 the European Year of Rail, and recommends that the European Parliament and the European Council uniformly endorses the idea. Combined Transport delivers increasing amounts of cargo for freight trains to carry at a time when demand for the shipping of classic (bulk) rail freight commodities is on a decline.
Intermodal freight transport is an important provider of inland freight transport services. The combination of the various modes of land and waterborne transport brought together under the intermodal banner is based on the best qualities of each. Combined Transport, where the road legs are kept to a minimum, is the most resource efficient and environmentally sustainable form of intermodal freight transport.
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