Article 45 — Rules and procedures for traffic management and disruption management

1. Infrastructure managers shall put in place rules and procedures to manage deviations of train movements from the working timetable. Those rules and procedures shall be published in the network statement referred to in Article 27 of Directive 2012/34/EU and shall cover traffic management in the situations set out in Article 44(1), points (a), (b) and (c), of this Regulation. 2. The rules and procedures referred to in paragraph 1 shall aim to minimise the overall impact of deviations from the timetable on all types of rail traffic, taking into account the needs of all types of transport. The rules and procedures may involve priority rules for the management between the different types of traffic and the specific procedures, criteria and targets to be applied in an optimisation-based approach that relies on the optimisation of a target function, such as the minimisation of the delay minutes or of the time to return to normal operations, rather than explicit priority rules. 3. In the event of a disruption to train movements caused by technical failure or accident, the infrastructure manager shall take all necessary steps to restore the situation to normal. To that end, the infrastructure manager shall implement the contingency plan developed in accordance with Article 21. If a disturbance has a potential impact on cross-border traffic, the infrastructure managers concerned shall cooperate with each other to restore the cross-border traffic to normal in accordance with the European framework for the coordination of traffic management, disruption management and crisis management as referred to in Article 46. 4. When setting out the rules and procedures referred to in paragraph 1, infrastructure managers shall take account of the European framework for the coordination of cross-border traffic management, disruption management and crisis management referred to in Article 46. They shall explain in the network statement the reason for any deviation from the common rules and procedures established in the European framework for the coordination of cross-border traffic management, disruption management and crisis management. 5. In case of force majeure, and, where absolutely necessary, on account of an incident making the railway infrastructure temporarily unusable, allocated capacity rights may be withdrawn without warning for as long as is necessary to repair the system whilst at the same time making the utmost efforts to provide possible alternatives. The infrastructure manager may, if it deems this necessary, require railway undertakings to make available to it the resources which it considers are the most appropriate to restore the situation to normal as soon as possible. 6. In the event of a capacity cancellation, infrastructure managers shall inform railway undertakings of their time management, of progress of repairs and of possible alternatives to their allocated capacity. 7. Member States may require railway undertakings to be involved in ensuring the enforcement and monitoring of their own compliance with the safety standards and rules.