2. Vehicles

Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union (recast) (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

For the purposes of this Directive, Union vehicles shall comprise all vehicles likely to travel on all or part of the Union's network: locomotives and passenger rolling stock, including thermal or electric traction units, self-propelling thermal or electric passenger trains, and passenger coaches; freight wagons, including low-deck vehicles designed for the entire network and vehicles designed to carry lorries; special vehicles, such as on-track machines. This list of vehicles shall include those which are specially designed to operate on the different types of high-speed lines described in point 1.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.