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Agency’s activities concerning
national safety rules
Natalja Skačenko
Safety Unit
Safety Regulation Sector
26-05-2009
Meeting in Sofia
N° 1
Registration of the notified
national safety rules
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Meeting in Sofia
N° 2
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/NSA’s as part of the actual notification.
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Use of rule declaration form - April 2009
MS own format
Paper
Electronic
AT - 23
EE - 20
NO - 9
SK - 20
SI - 54
Total 86
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Total 40
Excel version of RDF
Paper
Electronic
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
Total 4
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Online RDF
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 486
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Number of the rules in the PDB - 618
Temporary space
Belgium
11
Bulgaria
1
Channel Tunnel
16
Denmark
5
France
19
Ireland
46
Italy
107
Luxembourg
79
Norway
8
Poland
20
Slovenia
38
Spain
23
Sweden
6
United Kingdom
85
Total 464
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Public Database
Registered
Belgium
Estonia
Netherlands
Norway
Sweden
73
20
6
15
40
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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N° 6
Legal changes for type 3 NSR
• Directive 2008/57/EC
(the new Interoperability Directive)
• Directive 2008/110/EC amending the Railway
Safety Directive
↓
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 application:
Railway 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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Thank you for your attention
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