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Agencys activities concerningnational safety
rules

• Natalja Skacenko
• Safety Unit
• Safety Regulation Sector

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Registration of the notifiednational safety
rules
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Validation of notifications

• 1200 rules are notified
• Clarified and renewed notifications of existing
  rules received in 2008 (less than 1000 rules,
  i.e. 5 times less than in 2005)
• Rules of Bulgaria and Romania
• New rules of other countries
• So far 618 rules are uploaded to the PDB.
• Some of these rules have been uploaded by the
  MS/NSAs as part of the actual notification.

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Use of rule declaration form - April 2009
MS own format MS own format Excel version of RDF Excel version of RDF Online RDF Online RDF
Paper Electronic Paper Electronic Online RDF Online RDF
AT - 23 NO - 9 SI - 54 EE - 20 SK - 20 EL - 4 BG - 178 CZ - 58 DE - 58 FI - 80 FR - 18 HU - 12 LT - 120 LU - 83 LV - 29 PT - 42 RO - 44 SE - 60 BE - 84 BG - 1 CT - 16 DK - 5 EE - 20 ES - 23 FR - 18 IE - 46 IT - 107 LU - 79 NL - 6 NO - 23 PL - 20 SI - 38 UK - 85
Total 86 Total 40 Total 4 Total 782 Total 486 Total 486
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Number of the rules in the PDB - 618
Public Database Public Database Public Database Public Database
Temporary space Temporary space Registered Registered
Belgium Bulgaria Channel Tunnel Denmark France Ireland Italy Luxembourg Norway Poland Slovenia SpainSweden United Kingdom 11 1 16 5 19 46 107 79 8 20 38 23 6 85 Belgium Estonia Netherlands Norway Sweden 73 20 6 15 40
Total 464 Total 464 Total 154 Total 154
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Types of rules in some countries
Country Type 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Belgium 1 3 8 54 8 7 3
Denmark 0 2 0 1 0 2 1
Estonia 1 2 3 4 2 6 2
France 2 2 4 3 2 2 1
Ireland - - - - - - -
Italy - - - - - - -
Netherlands 1 2 2 2 0 2 3
Norway 1 2 1 3 2 4 3
Sweden 0 5 20 7 3 4 8
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Legal changes for type 3 NSR

• Directive 2008/57/EC
• (the new Interoperability Directive)
• Directive 2008/110/EC amending the Railway Safety
  Directive
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• Type 3 rules are now included as national
  technical rules to be notified under Article 17
  (3) of the Interoperability Directive.
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• Short note and updates of the Guideline for NSR
  notification

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Changes in the notification procedure

• The Commission is introducing a new electronic
  system for notifying NSR and NTR
• RISD Railway Interoperability and Safety
  Database
• Planned use as from September 2009
• Same rule declaration form will be used

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Existing solutions (source DG TREN)

• Member States notify their safety rules online
• Through the ERA web application.
• Notification of technical rules
• Via email exchanges letters between the Member
  States and the Commission.

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Existing problems (source DG TREN)

• Huge amount of email paper files
• Inefficiency in management of required follow-up
• No data content harmonisation increase the work
  effort for he Commission in order to merge the
  information.
• No transparency
• Difficulties in storing information
• Two separate workflows (Commission ERA)

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Proposed solution (source DG TREN)

• The RISD web applicationRailway
  Interoperability and Safety Database
• PURPOSE
• Unique entry point for all notifications (safety
  and technical rules)
• Automatisation of notification process
• Harmonization of content

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Proposed solution (source DG TREN)

• Help the member States in their notification
  tasks (pre-filled forms, features to save ongoing
  notifications, etc)
• Assure persistence of information
• Facilitate its retrieval
• Provide automatic transparency notifications
  automatically available to Member States and
  public

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Preparations for using RISD

• The Commission will
• Create steering group with volunteered MS and
  ERA
• Organise workshop on the use of the database
• Update Guideline for NSR notification (procedure
  and use of rule declaration form)
• ERA will
• Download NSR to RISD no need to re-notify NSR!
• Solution for NTR will be discussed with RISC

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Evaluation of how national safety rules are
published and made available in the Member States
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Phase I

• Scope Notifications that were accepted (NO, NL),
  clarified (BE, EE, FR, SE), clarified but not yet
  notified (DK, IE, IT) and new (NO, SE, DK)
• 67 interview partners contributed to the external
  study
• Preliminary conclusions and examples of good
  practice have been discussed with MS/NSA
• (Please consult details on ERA Extranet)

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Phase I examples of preliminary conclusions

• Transparent policy on consultation of
  stakeholders list including RU, IM, and
  manufacturers
• preparation of rules
• formal consultation of draft rule
• Systematic review of NSR to take into account
• technological developments of RS
• operational practices,
• European legislation
• Develop NSA web sites as primary source with
  search aids

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Phase I examples of good practice

• NSA web sites as primary source of NSR
• collections of relevant legislation (NO)
• handbooks of rules (SE)
• guidelines (IE)
• IM provides access to all operational rules (IT)

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Proposal for NSR task force

• Propose and exchange good practice
• policy and procedures for consultation of
  stakeholders
• regimes for monitoring and reviewing NSR
• guidelines on publication and accessibility of
  NSR
• New approaches to establishment of NSR
• Proposal on task force activities in 2010

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Current activities in Phase 2

• Scope Renewed notifications from AT, CZ, DE, EL,
  ES, FI, HU, LT, LU, LV, PL, PT, SI, SK, UK and CT
  and notifications from BG and RO.
• Activities
• Validation of the notifications
• Registration of the rules in the database
• Examination of the rules how they are published
  and made available

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Evaluation of the rules how they are published
and made available (1)

• A consortium, KEMA - CETREN, has interviewed
  ministries, NSA, RU and IM in 17 MS and CT during
  March-April 2009
• The consortium will deliver report end July 2009
  with information from the interviews
• As in phase I, the report will be sent to the
  concerned NSR contact persons for validation

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Evaluation of the rules how they are published
and made available (2)

• The Agency will
• examine the notified rules using the findings in
  the report from the consortium
• prepare a combined report for phase 1 and 2
  concerning the publication and availability of
  the rules
• deliver recommendations to the Commission for
  publication of the rules in order to make the
  relevant information more easily accessible - end
  2009

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Other activities
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Other NSR-related activities

• The Agency assists the Commission
• First technical advice to the Commission was
  issued on 3 April 2009
• The Agency evaluates national laws implementing
  the Directive 2004/49/EC (mandate in July 2008)
• The Agency shall issue technical opinion by
  request of
• The Commission on new national safety rules
• DERC or regulatory bodies on safety issues

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