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ag tabhairt dá haire go bhfuil gníomhaíochtaí reatha an Chomhghnóthais ag dul chun cinn i dtreo a thaispeántas in 2022 agus in 2023 agus go n-áiritheofar leis sin go ndéanfar céimniú amach cuí agus céimniú isteach cuí idir dhá Chlár sa Chomhghnóthas um Iarnród na hEorpa, a tháinig i gcomharbas ar Shift2Rail; ag tabhairt dá haire gurb iad taispeántais teicneolaíochta an Chomhghnóthais na bloic thógála de chlaochlú iarnróid níos sistéamaí atá á stiúradh go straitéiseach ag ann gComhaontú Glas don Eoraip de chuid an Choimisiúin, ag an gClár Oibre Digiteach agus, le déanaí, ag an Straitéis maidir le Soghluaisteacht Inbhuanaithe agus Cliste; ag tabhairt dá haire, le linn earrach na bliana 2020, gur thacaigh an Comhghnóthas tuilleadh le forbairt an Pháipéir Ardleibhéil maidir le Comhghnóthas um Iarnród na hEorpa (EU-Rail), a tháinig i gcomharbas ar Shift2Rail, agus tar éis an chéad leagan den Pháipéar Ardleibhéil a chur isteach i mí na Nollag 2019, gur lean an Comhghnóthas de chomhordú a dhéanamh ar na hionchuir éagsúla sa chéad leath de 2020; ag tabhairt dá haire gur sheol an Coimisiún, i mí Lúnasa 2020, cuireadh d’eintitis chun spéis a léiriú le bheith ina gcomhalta bunaidh is iarrthóir de Chomhghnóthas um Iarnród na hEorpa;
Notes that the current activities of the Joint Undertaking are progressing towards their demonstrations in 2022 and 2023 and this will ensure a proper phasing out and phasing in between two Programmes in the Shift2Rail successor Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking; notes that the Joint Undertaking’s technological demonstrators are the building blocks of a more systemic railway transformation which is strategically driven by the Commission’s European Green Deal, the Digitalisation Agenda and, more recently, the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy; notes that, during spring 2020, the Joint Undertaking further supported the development of the High Level Paper on Shift2Rail’s successor, Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), and, following the submission of the first version of the High Level Paper in December 2019, the Joint Undertaking continued the coordination of the various inputs in the first half of 2020; notes that during August 2020, the Commission launched its invitation for entities to manifest the interest to become candidate founding member of the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking;