About us
The coordination and control of the activities in the field of railway transport are carried out by the Railway Administration Executive Agency
Headquartered in Sofia, with a territorial unit
The Railway Administration Executive Agency is a National Safety Authority for railway transport.
The Railway Administration Executive Agency is a supervisory body for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2021/782 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations.
The Railway Administration Executive Agency:
- Controls access to railway infrastructure and the fulfillment of public service obligations;
- Verifies compliance with the requirements for issuing licenses and authorizations.
- It shall collect fees for the issue of licenses and authorizations, as well as for the issue of safety certificates, documents of competence, and certificates of competence for consultants regarding the transport of dangerous goods, in an amount to be determined by the Council of Ministers on a proposal from the Minister for Transport and Communications.
- Issues documents of competence to railway staff.
- Maintains registers and collects statistical data on railway transport activities.
- Develops and proposes to the Minister of Transport and Communications draft regulations in the field of rail transport.
- Exercises control functions under this Act with regard to the putting into service of structural subsystems of the railway system.
- Proposes to the Minister of Transport and Communications for approval of measures to prevent and overcome the consequences of disasters and accidents affecting railway infrastructure.
- Consents to the projects for crossing the railway lines of the railway infrastructure with the roads of the republican road network, local roads, streets, pipelines, cable and overhead high-voltage and low-voltage lines, etc., as well as the projects for connecting the railway lines of the railway infrastructure.
- Performs other functions assigned to it by legislation or by an act of the Council of Ministers.
The financing of activities of the RAEA shall be provided from the budget of the Ministry of Transport and Communications under a budget account determined by it.
The budgetary resources include transfers from the budget of the Ministry of Transport and Communications for the costs of carrying out the functions of the RAEA and for the payment of the assets and services necessary for the operation.
The RAEA is the administrator of the following revenues:
- Fees for the issuance of documents and for the provision of administrative services, as defined in Tariff No. 5 for the fees to be collected in the system of the Ministry of Transport, adopted by Decree No. 81 of the Council of Ministers of 2000 (Journal of Laws, No. 41 of 2000; amended, No. 54 of 2000, as amended). And suppl. 97 of 2000, Nos. 18, 47, 62, and 104 of 2001;
- Fines and financial sanctions under the Railway Transport Act;
- Donations, grants, and other funds raised from domestic and foreign natural and legal persons;
- Rents from property;
- Other.
The activities, structure, organization of work, and composition of the Railway Administration Executive Agency shall be determined by a regulation adopted by the Council of Ministers on a proposal of the Minister of Transport and Communications.