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Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2299 of 17 November 2015 amending Decision 2009/965/EC as regards an updated list            of parameters to be used for classifying national rules (notified under document C(2015) 7869) (Text with EEA relevance)         

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# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2299                     

# of 17 November 2015

# amending Decision 2009/965/EC as regards an updated list of parameters to be used for classifying national rules

# *(notified under document C(2015) 7869)*

# (Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Directive 2008/57/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the interoperability                           of the rail system within the Community(1), and in particular Article 27(4) thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)On 30 November 2009 the Commission adopted Decision 2009/965/EC(2) with a list of parameters to be used for classifying national rules in the reference document referred to in Article 27 of                              Directive 2008/57/EC.

(2)On the basis of a recommendation of the European Railway Agency (the Agency), the revision of the list of parameters is needed                              to make it coherent with the revised technical specification for interoperability (‘TSI’) on rolling stock, freight wagons,                              locomotives and passenger rolling stock, noise, infrastructure, energy, control-command and signalling, operation and traffic                              management, telematic applications for freight and passenger services, safety on railway tunnels and accessibility to persons                              with reduced mobility.

(3)In order to allow comparison and cross-referencing, in respect of a particular parameter, between the requirements contained                              within the revised TSIs and those contained in national rules, the list of parameters to be checked in conjunction with the                              placing in service of non-TSI conform vehicles, should, on the one hand, preserve compatibility with, and build upon existing                              agreements based on national rules and, on the other hand, reflect the revised TSIs. It is therefore necessary for the list                              of parameters to be updated. To ensure a harmonised understanding and application of the list, additional explanation should                              be added. It is appropriate to adopt the detailed list of parameters, prepared on the basis of the recommendation of the Agency                              (ERA-REC-118-2014/REC) of 11 November 2014, as the basis for the reference document referred to in Article 27(4) of Directive                              2008/57/EC.

(4)Decision 2009/965/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)For the sake of clarity, the reference document referred to in Article 27(4) of Directive 2008/57/EC and described in Commission                              Decision 2011/155/EU(3) should be updated accordingly.

(6)The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established in accordance with                              Article 29(1) of Directive 2008/57/EC,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

The Annex to Decision 2009/965/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

# Article 2U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States and to the European Railway Agency.

It shall apply from 1 January 2016.

Done at Brussels, 17 November 2015.

*For the Commission*                            

Violeta Bulc                            

*Member of the Commission*                            

## ANNEXU.K.

### “‘ANNEX**List of parameters to be used for classifying national rules in the reference document referred to in Article 27 of Directive                           2008/57/EC**

1

OJ L 191, 18.7.2008, p. 1.                           

2

Commission Decision 2009/965/EC of 30 November 2009 on the reference document referred to in Article 27(4) of Directive 2008/57/EC                              of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the rail system within the Community (OJ L 341, 22.12.2009, p. 1).                           

3

Commission Decision 2011/155/EU of 9 March 2011 on the publication and management of the reference document referred to in                              Article 27(4) of Directive 2008/57/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the rail system                              within the Community (OJ L 63, 10.3.2011, p. 22).