Recital (25)

The European framework for capacity management, the European framework for the coordination of cross-border traffic management, disruption management and crisis management and the European framework for performance review, which are all developed by ENIM, should provide guidelines setting out common tools, methodologies and procedural arrangements that enable the infrastructure managers’ uniform implementation of this Regulation across the single European railway area, relating to the management of railway infrastructure capacity, coordination of cross-border traffic, management of traffic disruption and crisis situations as well as performance review. While those frameworks and the elements contained therein should be non-binding and infrastructure managers should retain responsibility for their operational decisions, infrastructure managers are nevertheless expected to follow the frameworks unless specific circumstances justify departing from them. In such cases, infrastructure managers should act in accordance with the principle comply or explain and should justify the reason for any deviation from those frameworks. That approach allows to strike the balance between the needs of coordination and application of uniform approaches in the single European railway area, and the need for adapting procedures and methodologies to the specific circumstances of given geographical areas. Where ENIM does not find an agreement on the common tools, methodologies and procedural arrangements and is therefore unable to develop the European frameworks, or where, in the event of such an agreement, those frameworks are inadequate to meet their intended objectives, or there are extensive deviations from the application of those frameworks which undermine the uniform implementation of this Regulation, the Commission should adopt implementing acts setting out binding rules on the common tools, methodologies and procedural arrangements necessary for the uniform implementation of those European frameworks or their elements.