{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1723/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1723/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/1723",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1723 of 26 October 2018 on the Rail Baltica cross-border project on the North Sea-Baltic Core Network Corridor (notified under document C(2018) 6969) (Only the Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish texts are authentic)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1723",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Actions and timetable",
  "text": "Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland shall ensure the timely implementation of the following actions:\n(a) by 31 December 2018:\n(1) consolidated preliminary technical design shall be completed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania;\n(2) strategic environmental assessments shall be completed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (except from Kaunas to Vilnius and from Kaunas to Lithuania/Poland state border);\n(3) the study on infrastructure management in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania shall be completed and submitted to the national authorities of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania;\n(b) by 30 June 2019: a decision on the management of the built infrastructure shall be concluded by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania;\n(c) by 31 December 2020:\n(1) strategic environmental assessments shall be completed in Lithuania from Kaunas to Lithuania/Poland state border;\n(2) the spatial (territorial) planning shall be completed and the detailed route alignment approved in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (except from Kaunas to Vilnius);\n(3) construction shall have been started in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania;\n(4) the technical design of the railway shall be completed in Estonia, Latvia (central section around Riga) and Lithuania (except from Kaunas to Vilnius and from Kaunas to Lithuania/Poland state border);\n(5) detailed studies and environmental procedures defining the technical parameters and timeframe for the implementation of the section Ełk-Poland/Lithuania state border shall be completed in Poland;\n(d) by 31 December 2021:\n(1) the land acquisition shall be completed in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (except from Kaunas to Vilnius and from Kaunas to Lithuania/Poland state border);\n(2) the spatial (territorial) planning and strategic environmental assessments shall be completed and the detailed route alignment approved in Lithuania from Kaunas to Vilnius;\n(3) the technical design shall be completed in Latvia (northern and southern sections);\n(e) by 31 December 2023:\n(1) the land acquisition shall be completed in Lithuania from Kaunas to Vilnius and from Kaunas to Lithuania/Poland state border;\n(2) the technical design of the railway shall be completed in Lithuania from Kaunas to Lithuania/Poland state border and from Kaunas to Vilnius;\n(f) by 31 December 2025:\n(1) the railway infrastructure shall be completed as a double-track railway line for mixed traffic, suitable for minimum 740-m long freight trains, electrified, in UIC gauge, in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland;\n(2) the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) shall be deployed to achieve the full interoperability, in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/6, in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland;\n(3) capacity shall be ensured for the trans-shipment in existing and new rail-road terminals, which shall be connected by a fast conventional double track electrified railway line and European standard gauge (1 435 mm).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/6 of 5 January 2017 on the European Rail Traffic Management System European deployment plan (OJ L 3, 6.1.2017, p. 6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1723/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:56.902031+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}