Focus RailCom: presentation of key people

This is the issue:

• The Com­mis­si­on gua­ran­tees non-dis­cri­mi­na­to­ry access
• Who is behind the Com­mis­si­on? We would like to intro­du­ce you.

Rail­Com gua­ran­tees non-dis­cri­mi­na­to­ry access to Switzerland’s rail net­work, com­bi­ned trans­port tran­ship­ment faci­li­ties and local freight ser­vices. The Com­mis­si­on is actively com­mit­ted to an open and fair mar­ket access poli­cy in order to pro­mo­te healt­hy com­pe­ti­ti­ve­ness and increase the effi­ci­en­cy of the rail sector.

In this blog post, we intro­du­ce the staff who are com­mit­ted to RailCom.

Chairmanship:

• Chair: Patri­zia Danioth Hal­ter, lic. iur., att­or­ney-at-law and nota­ry, LL.M., Alt­dorf (UR)
• Vice-Chair­man: Mar­kus Kern, Prof. Dr. iur., LL.M., Pro­fes­sor of Public, Admi­nis­tra­ti­ve and Euro­pean Law at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Berne (BE)

Members of the committee:

• Cesa­re Brand, lawy­er, Forel (FR)
• Anna Cia­ran­fi Zanet­ta, Lawy­er, Depart­ment of Finan­ce and Eco­no­my of the Can­ton of Tici­no, Dalpe (TI)
• Bar­ba­ra Fur­rer, Dr. iur., att­or­ney-at-law, Head of Legal Ser­vices, DHL Express (Schweiz) AG, Hedin­gen (ZH)
• Man­fred Hal­ler, EMBA, inde­pen­dent con­sul­tant, Unter­kulm (AG)

The secre­ta­ri­at pro­vi­des pro­fes­sio­nal and tech­ni­cal sup­port to the com­mit­tee. It fol­lows the Commission’s ins­truc­tions. It is admi­nis­tra­tively atta­ched to the Gene­ral Secre­ta­ri­at of the Fede­ral Depart­ment of the Envi­ron­ment, Trans­port, Ener­gy and Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons (DETEC). Its mem­bers are as follows:

Head:

• Chris­tof Böh­ler, M.A. HSG Inter­na­tio­nal Relations
• Depu­ty: Melis­sa Rick­li, lic. phil. hist.

Staff members:

• Ana Dett­wi­ler, Lawy­er, Legal Affairs
• Ursu­la Erb, Doc­tor of Eco­no­mics, Mar­ket Monitoring
• Andre­as Opp­li­ger, lic. phil. nat, Mar­ket Monitoring
• Kat­rin Suter-Burri, Ph. ETH, Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on, Agen­da and Research