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A significant share of rail freight transport is long-distance and requires cross-border coordination between infrastructure managers. The policy goal of increasing rail traffic also relies on growing cross-border passenger services. To facilitate and promote increasing cross-border traffic in the single European railway area, it is necessary to ensure greater consistency and harmonisation of the rules and procedures on the management of railway infrastructure capacity, while relying on the sector’s experience and expertise for their definition. Accordingly, the role of ENIM should be strengthened by entrusting it with the development of guidelines to enable the uniform implementation of this Regulation’s procedures and methodologies for the management of railway infrastructure capacity and the active coordination of cross-border capacity and traffic. In particular, ENIM should develop European frameworks for capacity management, for the coordination of cross-border traffic management, disruption management and crisis management, and for performance review. Railway undertakings, applicants and other operational stakeholders should be consulted in the development of those European frameworks.