Recital (34)

All Member States’ infrastructure managers that are responsible for lines that form part of the core and extended core Trans-European Transport Network (the TEN-T network) should be members of ENIM. Other infrastructure managers of Member States that are included in strategic capacity management for lines outside the core and extended core TEN-T network should also be able to participate in the deliberations of ENIM. Other infrastructure managers could be invited to participate in the work of ENIM as observers, but without voting rights. Moreover, it is in the interest of the Union to allow for the participation in ENIM of infrastructure managers that are responsible for lines on the core or extended core TEN-T network of States that are members of the European Free Trade Association and of South East European Parties to the Treaty establishing the Transport Community signed by the Union in accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2017/1937, provided that those States or parties apply this Regulation pursuant to an international agreement concluded with the Union. The modalities of their participation in ENIM should be determined under the agreement those States and parties concluded with the Union. Those States and parties are closely associated to the Union in the transport sector. Moreover, due to their geographical location, most of them have important rail connections with the Member States or have transit traffic between two or more Member States. Their contribution to ENIM work is therefore important.