UNIFE is the official representative body of the rail supply industry towards the European Railway Agency
UNIFE is the official representative body of the rail supply industry towards the European Railway Agency and can officially participate to working parties for development of railway regulations and recommendations.
Visit the European Railway Agency website for more information on legislation concerning the Eurpean Rail System: www.era.europa.eu.
Directives and Regulations:
Railway Interoperability Directive 2008/57/EC (Consolidated Version)
Railway Safety Directive 2004/49/EC (Consolidate Version)
European Railway Agency (ERA) Regulation 881/2004 [Needs to be uploaded to new UNIFE website]
Technical Specifications for Interoperability in force:
These documents are drafted by the European Railway Agency and then adopted by the European Commission and the Member States of the European Union
Rolling Stock:
- TSI Rolling Stock: Locomotives and Passenger Carriages for TEN Conventional Networks (CR LOC&PAS TSI) - 2011/291/EU
- TSI Rolling Stock for TEN High Speed Networks (HS RST TSI) - 2008/232/CE
- TSI Freight Wagons (WAG TSI) – Regulation 321/2013/EU
- TSI Rolling Stock – Noise (NOI TSI) - 2011/229/EU
Infrastructure and Energy (Fixed Installations)
- TSI Infrastructure for TEN Conventional Networks (CR INF TSI) - 2011/275/EU
- TSI Infrastructure for TEN High Speed Networks (HS INF TSI) - 2008/217/EC
- TSI Energy for TEN Conventional Networks (CR ENE TSI) - 2011/274/EU
- TSI Energy for TEN High Speed Networks (HS ENE TSI) - 2008/284/EC
Control Command and Signalling (CCS)
Telematic Applications
- Telematic Applications for Freight TSI (CR TAF TSI) – Regulation 62/2006/EC
- Telematic Applications for Passenger Services TSI (TAP TSI) – Regulation EU 454/2011
Transverse (covering multiple subsystems)
- Persons with Reduced Mobility TSI (PRM TSI) - 2008/164/EC
- Safety in Railway Tunnels TSI (SRT TSI) - 2008/163/EC
Common Safety Methods
Regulation (EU) No 402/2013 on the common safety method for risk evaluation and assessment
LIST OF APPLICABLE LEGISLATION – RAILWAYS
Document: LISTING OF DIRECTIVES RELATING TO RFU-PLG-013
Introduction
According to the Interoperability Directive, the applicant declares that it has taken all applicable legislation into account when authorising a vehicle. DV29bis states that:
“The responsibility for ensuring that the essential requirements of all applicable EU legislation are fully met in every detail by the subsystems in their design operating state at authorisation rests only with the applicant for authorisation of a subsystem, who issues the ‘EC’ declaration of verification.”
This applicable legislation includes horizontal directives and regulations that do not originate in the TSIs or the Interoperability Directive, such as emissions regulation for diesel-powered vehicles, or the Safety of Toys Directive for vehicles with a nappy changing area.
Knowing what legislation applies to rail
Knowing which legislation is applicable to rail is not always easy. Horizontal legislation for all sectors with reference to harmonised standards can be found on the website of DG GROW (http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/european-standards/harmonised-standards_en). However, from this list it is not clear which legislation applies to rail.
Until the end of 2015, NBRail monitored legislation that might apply to rail and scanned it regularly for amendments. However, the new Interoperability Directive EU/2016/797 relieves the NoBo of this responsibility which is instead placed on the applicant.
One list for the entire sector
Since 1st January 2016 each applicant is responsible for defining a list of applicable legislation which it takes into account for authorisation. For consistency between applicants it is therefore desirable to have an agreed list for the entire sector, ensuring that all applicants work from the same list. As such, the list would be recognised as good practice.
Agreeing on a joint list
Instead of every applicant doing its own legislative monitoring, TÜV Süd (who previously maintained the list for all NoBos) has agreed to continue to do the monitoring and supply the list to the sector.
The document published on this page has been provided by TÜV SÜD DANMARK APS to UNIFE as representative of the following railway sector associations: CER, EIM, EPTTOLA, ERFA, UIC, UIP, UITP, UIRR and UNIFE.
RFU-PLG-013 requires the compilation of a listing of Directives, to be maintained for the use of the railway industry as to enable their compliance. The current listing is published on this page is open for use by UNIFE members.
NOTE: The list will be updated every two months. This list is for information only and no assurance is given as to its accuracy, completeness or sufficiency.
List of applicable legislation