Article 2 Aim of the Organisation
Article 2
Aim of the Organisation
§ 1 The aim of the Organisation shall be to promote, improve and facilitate, in all respects, international traffic by rail, in particular by
a) establishing systems of uniform law in the following fields of law:
1. contract of international carriage of passengers and goods in international through traffic by rail, including complementary carriage by other modes of transport subject to a single contract;
2. contract of use of wagons as means of transport in international rail traffic;
3. contract of use of infrastructure in international rail traffic;
4. carriage of dangerous goods in international rail traffic;
b) contributing to the removal, in the shortest time possible, of obstacles to the crossing of frontiers in international rail traffic, while taking into account special public interests, to the extent that the causes of these obstacles are within the responsibility of States;
c) contributing to interoperability and technical harmonisation in the railway field by the validation of technical standards and the adoption of uniform technical prescriptions;
d) establishing a uniform procedure for the technical admission of railway material intended for use in international traffic;
e) keeping a watch on the application of all the rules and recommendations established within the Organisation;
f) developing the systems of uniform law, rules and procedures referred to in letters a) to e) taking account of legal, economic and technical developments.
§ 2 The Organisation may
a) within the framework of the aim referred to in § 1, elaborate other systems of uniform law;
b) constitute a framework within which the Member States can elaborate other international conventions aiming to promote, improve and facilitate international rail traffic.