A scheduled meeting of the OSJD Committee’s members took place on 12 October 2020. The meeting had a mixed format, with some members physically present at the OSJD Committee in Warsaw and others attending virtually through a videoconferencing system. The participating members of the Committee represented a total of 22 OSJD countries.

The meeting attendees reviewed and approved without demur the following documents:

- Report on the Consultative Meeting on the subject “Terminological study of combined, intermodal, and multimodal transport operations” (2 March 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD PWG on Finance and Accounting (26-26 June 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Transport Policy and Development Strategy on the subject “Development of measures to facilitate border crossing procedures in international railway freight traffic in Eurasian space” (29-30 June 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock on subject No. 1 “Interoperability requirements and rolling stock dimensions in international traffic” (1-2 July 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Committee on Freight Traffic on the subject “Organisation of combined transport operations in international traffic” (14-15 July 2020);

- Report on the OSJD-UIC Joint Group meeting for the conversion of joint OSJD-UIC leaflets into draft International Railway Solutions (IRS)” (21-22 July 2020);

- Report on the meeting of the AWG of the OSJD Commission on Transport Law on the subject of the document of title to the goods (27-28 July 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Transport Law on SMGS-related issues (29-31 July 2020);

- Report on the 16^th meeting of the OSJD AWG on Vocational Training/Education in Railway Transport (4-6 August 2020);

- Report on the meeting for final coordination of the timetables, coach sequence layouts/indicators of passenger trains and allocation of coaches in them in international traffic of Group 1 of railways for 2020/2021 (10-14 August 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Transport Law on the technical requirements for the stowing and fastening of goods carried by rail (18-21 August 2020;

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Transport Law on the Rules for the Transportation of Dangerous Goods (25-28 August 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Transport Policy and Development Strategy on the subject “IT-based collaboration in the area of scientific, technical, and economic information (STEI) (1-2 September 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Transport Law on SMPS-related issues (1-3 September 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Freight Traffic on the subject “Organisation of high-capacity container transport in international traffic” (8-11 September 2020);

- Report on the meeting for final coordination of the timetables, coach sequence layouts/indicators of passenger trains and allocation of coaches in them in international traffic of Group II of railways for 2020/2021 (7-8 September 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the PWG CI on the subject “Security of information resources and information and telecommunication infrastructure” (9-10 September 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock on sub-topic 2.3 “Comprehensive diagnostics of railway track” of topic No. 2 “Railway track and engineer structures” (17-18 September 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock on topic No. 4 “Power supply and electric traction systems” (21-22 September 2020);

- Report on the meeting of representatives of the Parties to the PGW Agreement on the topic “Improvement of the Agreement on the Use of Freight Wagons in International Traffic (PGW)” (21-23 September 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Transport Policy and Development Strategy on statistics in railway transport and the 2019 Bulletin of OSJD Statistical Data on Railway Transport” (22-24 September 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock on sub-topic 2.4 “Reinforced concrete sleepers, beams, turnout points, and their diagnostics” of topic No. 2 “Railway track and structures” (23-24 September 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Passenger Traffic on the topic “Systems used for seat reservation, passenger information services, general passenger services, and financial report generation” (1-2 October 2020);

- Report on the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock on sub-topic 2.2 “Review of a set of issues associated with subgrade and artificial structures” of topic No. 2 “Railway track and engineer structures” (3-4 September 2020);

- Report of the expert meeting of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock on sub-topic 5.2 “Wagons” of topic No. 5 “Railway rolling stock. Technical requirements as to its elements” (1-2 October 2020);

- Report on the virtual annual meeting of the OSJD Commission on Freight Traffic (6-9 October 2020);

- Report on the virtual OSJD-UNESCAP joint expert meeting on the “Challenges and opportunities in international railway traffic on the Trans-Asian Railway Network during the COVID-19 pandemic” (7-8 July 2020);

- Report on OSJD’s participation in the International Online Business Forum “Development of Eurasian Multimodal Transport in the New Economic Paradigm” (15 July 2020) and in the International Videoconference under the subject “Trans-Eurasian Container Services in China-Europe-China Connection” (28 July 2020);

- Report on the participation in the Virtual Expert Group Meeting on “Legal Framework for Multimodal Transport Operations in Asia and the Pacific” (26-27 August 2020);

- Report on the participation in the virtual CCTT/TSIOAJ VI-th Business Forum “Trans-Siberian Railway in the Eurasian transport system: new opportunities and prospects” (24 September 2020).

The Meeting addressed the distribution of the tasks set forth in the decisions of meeting XXXV of the Conference of General Directors (Authorized Representatives) of OSJD Railways, and in the decisions of session XLVIII of the OSJD Ministerial Conference.

The Committee meeting decided to terminate cooperation with the following OSJD affiliated enterprises:

• CTL Logistics LLC,
• KAZPHOSPHATE LLC,
• Eryuan Engineering Group Co, Ltd.
• MALBI,
• ECOLINE LLC.