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Railways (Interoperability) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (2007 No 3386)
These Regulations may be cited as the Railways (Interoperability) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and come into force on 8th January 2008.
Specified date: 8 January 2008: see above.
2 Amendments to the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2006
2Amendments to the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2006
(1) The Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2006 are amended as follows.
“Conventional Directive” means Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system, as amended by Directive 2004/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council; and
“High-Speed Directive” means Council Directive 96/48/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system, as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and by Directive 2004/50/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.”;
(b) in paragraph (2) for the words from “Annexes I to III to the High-Speed Directive” to the end of the sentence substitute—
(a) Annexes I to III are reproduced in the Schedules indicated in the table;
(b) Annexes IV, V and VII are substantially reproduced in the Schedules indicated in the table; and
(c) Annex VI, as replaced by Directive 2007/32/EC of the Commission , is substantially reproduced, with minor modifications, in Schedule 9 as indicated in the table.”;
(i) for the definition of “certificate of conformity” substitute—
(ii) after the definition of “interoperability constituent” insert—
(i) insert “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (a); and
(ii) for sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) substitute—
“(b) “EEA State” has the same meaning as in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978.”.
(3) In regulation 4(2)(a) (requirement for authorisation), for “conformity” substitute “verification”.
(4) In regulation 8(3)(c) (duties on a contracting entity), for “conformity” substitute “verification”.
(a) in sub-paragraph (1)(a)—
(i) for “paragraph” substitute “Part”; and
(ii) for “conformity” substitute “verification”; and
(b) in paragraph (2) for the words from “shall keep the following documents” to the end of the paragraph substitute—
(a) keep the following documents—
(i) the technical file, including the certificate of verification; and
(ii) the verification declaration; and
(b) provide a copy of the technical file, including the certificate of verification, to any Member State that requests one.”.
(6) In regulation 27 (notified bodies: certificates of conformity etc)—
(a) in the heading to the regulation, for “conformity” substitute “verification”;
(b) in paragraph (1), for “certificate of conformity” substitute “certificate of verification or an ISV”; and
(c) in paragraph (2), for “certificate of conformity” substitute “certificate of verification”.
(a) for the heading substitute “VERIFICATION DECLARATION OF SUBSYSTEMS”;
(b) in the first paragraph, for “EC declaration of verification” substitute “verification declaration”; and
(c) in the penultimate entry in the list set out in the second paragraph, for “EC declaration” substitute “verification declaration”.
Verification Procedure for Subsystems Regulation 2(2)(This Schedule Substantially Reproduces, with Minor Modifications, the Provisions of Annex VI to the High-speed Directive and to the Conventional Directive as Replaced by Commission Directive 2007/32/EC)
—complies with the High-Speed Directive or the Conventional Directive,
—complies with the other regulations deriving from the Treaty, and
—may be put into operation.
PART 2 STAGES
—overall design,
—production: construction of subsystem including, for example, civil engineering activities, manufacturing, constituent assembly, overall adjustment,
—final testing of the system.
PART 3 CERTIFICATE
—checks that the subsystem:
—is covered by relevant design and production ISVs delivered to the main contractor (or the manufacturer) if it had asked a notified body for ISVs for these two stages,
—or corresponds as produced to all aspects covered by any design ISV delivered to the main contractor (or the manufacturer) if it had asked a notified body for an ISV for only the design stage, and
—verifies that the ISVs cover correctly the requirements of the TSIs and assesses the design and production elements that are not covered by the ISVs delivered to the main contractor (or the manufacturer).
PART 4 TECHNICAL FILE
—for the infrastructure: engineering-structure plans, approval records for excavations and reinforcement, testing and inspection reports on concrete, etc,
—for the other subsystems: general and detailed drawings in line with execution, electrical and hydraulic diagrams, control-circuit diagrams, descriptions of data processing and automatic systems, operating and maintenance manuals, etc,
—list of interoperability constituents, as referred to in Article 3 of the High-Speed Directive or Article 3 of the Conventional Directive, incorporated into the subsystem,
—copies of the EC declarations of conformity or suitability for use with which the above mentioned constituents must be provided in accordance with Article 13 of the High-Speed Directive or Article 13 of the Conventional Directive accompanied, where appropriate, by the corresponding calculation notes and a copy of the records of the tests and examinations carried out by the notified bodies on the basis of the common technical specifications,
—if available, any ISV and in such a case the “EC declaration of intermediate subsystem conformity” that accompanies the certificate of verification, including the result of verification by the notified body of their validity,
—certificate from and signed by the notified body responsible for EC verification, accompanied by corresponding calculation notes, stating that the project complies with the applicable Directive and mentioning any reservations recorded during performance of the activities and not withdrawn; the certificate should also be accompanied by the inspection and audit reports drawn up by the same body in connection with its task, as specified in paragraphs 5.3 and 5.4 of Part 5 of this Schedule.
5.1 The aim of EC monitoring is to ensure that the obligations deriving from the technical file have been met during production of the subsystem.
5.2 The notified body responsible for checking production must have permanent access to building sites, production workshops, storage areas and, where appropriate, prefabrication or testing facilities and, more generally, to all premises which it considers necessary for its task. The contracting entity or its authorised representative within the Community must send it or have sent to it all the documents needed for that purpose and, in particular, the implementation plans and technical documentation concerning the subsystem.
5.3 The notified body responsible for checking implementation must periodically carry out audits in order to confirm compliance with the High-Speed Directive or the Conventional Directive. It must provide those responsible for implementation with an audit report. It may require to be present at certain stages of the building operations.
5.4 In addition, the notified body may pay unexpected visits to the worksite or to the production workshops. At the time of such visits the notified body may conduct complete or partial audits. It must provide those responsible for implementation with an inspection report and, if appropriate, an audit report.
PART 6 SUBMISSION
PART 7 PUBLICATION
—requests for EC verification received;
—ISVs issued or refused;
—certificates of verification issued or refused.
PART 8 LANGUAGE
Specified date: 8 January 2008: see reg 1.
Accounting94 Financial & Audit Reports98 Auditing94
These Regulations amend the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/397) in order to implement Directive 2007/32/EC of the European Commission of 1st June 2007 (OJ No L 141, 2.6.07, p 63). This Directive substitutes a new text for Annex VI to Council Directive 96/48/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system and also for Annex VI to Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system. Annex VI sets out a verification procedure for railway subsystems, to check they comply with technical requirements.
Apart from this the 2006 Regulations are amended by updating the definition of “EEA State”, (regulation 2(2)(c)), and substituting the expression “verification declaration” for “declaration of verification” in Schedule 8 because the former expression is defined in regulation 2(3) and used in regulation 4(6)(a), (regulation 2(7)).