ÖBB CEO Andreas Matthä elected as Chairman of the Community of European Railways (CER) for the third time



(Gdansk / Vienna, 19 September 2023) - The members of the European Railway Association CER (Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies) re-elected the CER Board for the period 2024-2025 at their General Assembly in Gdansk. Andreas Matthä was confirmed as Chair of the CER for another two-year term. This is his third term at the helm of the association and was done on the unanimous recommendation of the CER Board and with unanimity in the General Assembly.
"I would like to thank the members for their great trust, and I am looking forward to representing the interests of the European railway sector in Brussels in the next two years. We are in a decisive phase of European mobility policy. Next year, the political forces in Europe will regroup. We will work to ensure that rail is an important part of the new political agenda in Brussels. Climate protection and decarbonisation need the best possible political support, the framework conditions for the shift from road to rail, especially in European freight transport, must improve and the expansion of European rail infrastructure must move forward. CER will play a constructive role in all these issues in the interest of Europe's railways," says ÖBB CEO Andreas Matthä.
The Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) brings together around 70 railway undertakings, their national associations as well as infrastructure managers and vehicle leasing companies. CER represents the interests of its members towards EU policymakers and transport stakeholders, advocating rail as the backbone of a competitive and sustainable transport system in Europe.