Workshop

OTIF organises training events for managers and experts from the Member States, particularly those Member States that have only recently acceded to COTIF and those that are interested in acceding.

On 16 and 17 December 2008, OTIF, together with the Ministry of Transport of Azerbaijan, organised a seminar in Baku to support the accession of Azerbaijan and Georgia to COTIF. On 9 and 10 June 2009, Turkish State Railways (TCDD) hosted a workshop in Istanbul on “rail transport between Europe and Asia”.

Following the Government of Pakistan’s decision of principle to accede to COTIF, the Secretariat of OTIF, together with Pakistan’s Ministry of Railways and the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), organised a capacity building workshop in Islamabad on 7 and 8 December 2011 to prepare Pakistan’s accession to COTIF.

Presentations
(EN only)

• How COTIF paves the way to legal certainty
  Stefan Schimming
  [906KB]
  
  
• The potential for membership of COTIF
  Stefan Schimming
  [1314KB]
  
  
• COTIF: the Convention and its Appendices
  Gustav Kafka
  [122KB]
  
  
• COTIF accession procedure
  Eva Hammerschmiedová
  [553KB]
  
  
• CIM Uniform Rules
  Eva Hammerschmiedová
  [299KB]
  
  
• RID
  Carriage of dangerous goods regulation
  Gustav Kafka
  [300KB]
  
  
• CIV Uniform Rules
  Eva Hammerschmiedová
  [194KB]
  
  
• Ways of secured financing of railway rolling stock
  Gustav Kafka
  [48KB]