Federal Railway Authority

Federal Railway Authority
Eisenbahn-Bundesamt
AbbreviationEBA
Formation1994-01-01
TypeGovernment agency
Legal statusEstablished by Act on the Federal Administration of Railway Traffic[1]
Purposelicensing and supervision authority for federal railways.
HeadquartersBonn
Region served
Germany
Official language
German
President
Gerald Hörster
Websitehttp://www.eba.bund.de/
Headquarters of the Federal Railway Office in Bonn
Hamburg branch

The German Federal Railway Authority (German: Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, EBA) has been the independent federal authority for the regulation of the railways in Germany since 1 January 1994. It is under the supervision and direction of the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport and is headed by a president.

  1. ^ Gesetz über die Eisenbahnverkehrsverwaltung des Bundes (Bundeseisenbahnverkehrsverwaltungsgesetz – BEVVG) [Act on the Federal Administration of Railway Traffic] of 1993-12-27, BGBl. Part I, p. 2378, 2394 (in German)

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