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Fees

Information on fees and expenses for individually attributable public services of Eisenbahn-Bundesamt

Fees and expenses based on railway law

Eisenbahn-Bundesamt does charge fees and expenses for individually attributable public services (chargeable services), which are delivered based on the following laws or susubsequent regulations

  1. General Railway Act (Allgemeines Eisenbahngesetz),
  2. Federal Railway Administration Act (Bundeseisenbahnverkehrsverwaltungsgesetz),
  3. Occupational Health and Safety Act (Arbeitsschutzgesetz),
  4. Infection Protection Act,
  5. Railway Noise Protection Act.

The chargeable services and the respective amount result from the Specific Regulation of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure on fees for chargeable services of Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, the notified body and the designated body (Besondere Gebührenverordnung des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur für individuell zurechenbare öffentliche Leistungen des Eisenbahn-Bundesamtes, der benannten Stelle und der bestimmten Stelle, EBABGebV).

Fees and expenses regarding the processing of the national part of applications for which the European Union Agency for Railways is the issuing body

The amount of fees levied for applications processed by the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) will be supplemented by the relevant amount submitted by the national safety authorities (NSA) resulting from the cost for processing of the national part of the application.

This concerns the following services, for which Eisenbahn-Bundesamt as NSA does charge fees according to EBA BGebV:

SubjectFee
Processing of pre-engagement for single safety certificateAccording to time needed, minimum 600 and maximum 75 000 Euro
Issuing or renewal of single safety certificateAccording to time needed, minimum 600 and maximum 75 000 Euro
Processing of pre-engagement for vehicle authorisationAccording to time needed
Authorisation for placing on the marker for vehicles or vehicle type authorisationAccording to time needed

For fees based on the time needed, the applicable hourly rate is 120 Euro, for each quarter of an hour commenced the rate is 30 Euro.

In these cases, the full fee will be levied to the applicant by ERA. The costs charged by the NSA responsible for the processing of the national part will be separately shown and specified.

Fees and expenses based on other legislation

Besides feed based on railway law, other legislation does exist that provides for charging fees and expenses. For example, fees for individually attributable public services according to the Freedom of Information Act (Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) will be charged following the respective Regulation (Verordnung über die Gebühren und Auslagen nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFGGebV). Charging fees and expenses for procedures according to the Environmental Information Act (Umweltinformationsgesetz, UIG) is specified in another regulation (Verordnung über Gebühren und Auslagen für individuell zurechenbare öffentliche Leistungen der informationspflichtigen Stellen beim Vollzug des Umweltinformationsgesetzes, UIGGebV).