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Commission Decision of 14 November 2012 concerning the technical specification for interoperability relating to the ‘operation and traffic management’ subsystem of the rail system in the European Union and amending Decision 2007/756/EC (notified under document C(2012) 8075) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/757/EU)

EU Decision 2012/757 · Adopted 14 November 2012 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Commission Decision

of 14 November 2012

concerning the technical specification for interoperability relating to the ‘operation and traffic management’ subsystem of the rail system in the European Union and amending Decision 2007/756/EC

(notified under document C(2012) 8075)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2012/757/EU)

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 Communityf1, and in particular Article 6(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 881/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 establishing a European Railway Agency (Agency Regulation)f2 requires the European Railway Agency (the Agency) to ensure that the technical specifications for interoperability (TSIs) are adapted to technical progress, market trends and social requirements and to propose to the Commission the amendments to the TSIs which it considers necessary.

(2)

By Decision C(2010) 2576 of 29 April 2010, the Commission gave the Agency a mandate to develop and review the technical specifications for interoperability with a view to extending their scope to the whole rail system in the Union. Under the terms of that mandate, the Agency was asked to merge and extend the scope of the high-speed TSI and the conventional rail TSI relating to the ‘Traffic Operation and Management’ subsystem. These TSIs were adopted respectively by Commission Decision 2008/231/ECf3, and Commission Decision 2011/314/EUf4.

(3)

On 5 September 2011, the Agency issued a recommendation on the merging of the TSI on operation and traffic management for conventional rail and the TSI on operation and traffic management for high-speed rail, the extension of the geographical scope of these TSIs and the transfer of details of the European vehicle number (EVN) to Commission Decision 2007/756/ECf5.

(4)

Implementation of the TSI set out in Annex I, and conformity with the relevant points of that TSI, should be determined in accordance with an implementation plan that each Member State is required to update for the lines for which it is responsible.

(5)

Rail traffic currently operates under existing national, bilateral, multinational or international agreements. It is important that those agreements do not hinder current and future progress towards interoperability. Therefore a procedure of notification of these agreements by Member States should set up.

(6)

Railway vehicles are registered by the bodies that keep the national vehicle registers pursuant to Decision 2007/756/EC, based on Article 33 of Directive 2008/57/EC.

(7)

The format of the European vehicle number and the requirement to have it painted on the vehicle are both necessary for identifying the vehicle and should therefore remain in the TSI on operation and traffic management.

(8)

To make it easier to understand the national vehicle register and the vehicle registration processes, it is appropriate to transfer the details of the technical codes that are part of the European vehicle number to Decision 2007/756/EC. Decision 2007/756/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(9)

Via the Committee established in accordance with Article 29 of Directive 2008/57/EC, the Commission must inform the Member States of changes in the lists of codes published by the Agency.

(10)

Directive 2008/57/EC defines the ‘operation and traffic management’ subsystem as functional. Consequently, the TSI on operation and traffic management is not assessed when authorising a vehicle to be brought into service but when assessing the safety management systems of railway undertakings and infrastructure managers.

(11)

For the sake of clarity and simplicity, it is appropriate not to amend the transitional provisions set out in Articles 3, 5 and 7 of Decision 2011/314/EU.

(12)

Decisions 2008/231/EC and 2011/314/EU should be repealed.

(13)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

OJ L 191, 18.7.2008, p. 1.

f2

OJ L 164, 30.4.2004, p. 1.

f3

OJ L 84, 26.3.2008, p. 1.

f4

OJ L 144, 31.5.2011, p. 1.

f5

OJ L 305, 23.11.2007, p. 30.

Contents

  1. 1Subject matter Repealed
  2. 2Scope Repealed
  3. 3Open points Repealed
  4. 3aSpecific cases Repealed
  5. 3bNotification of bilateral agreements Repealed
  6. 3cNotification of rules related to the type of rear end signal Repealed
  7. 3dImplementation Repealed
  8. 4Article 4 Repealed
  9. 5Article 5
  10. 6Article 6 Repealed
  11. 7Article 7 Repealed
  12. 8Article 8 Repealed
  13. Annex I
  14. INTRODUCTION
  15. 1.1Technical scope
  16. 1.2Geographical scope
  17. 1.3Content of this TSI
  18. DESCRIPTION OF SUBSYSTEM/SCOPE
  19. 2.1Subsystem
  20. 2.2Scope
  21. 2.2.1Staff and trains
  22. 2.2.2Principles
  23. 2.2.3Applicability to existing vehicles and infrastructure
  24. ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
  25. 3.1Compliance with the essential requirements
  26. 3.2Essential requirements — overview
  27. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUBSYSTEM
  28. 4.1Introduction
  29. 4.2Functional and technical specifications of the subsystem
  30. Specifications relating to staff
  31. 4.2.1.1General requirements
  32. 4.2.1.2Documentation for drivers
  33. 4.2.1.2.1Driver’s Rule Book
  34. 4.2.1.2.2Description of the line and the relevant line-side equipment associated with the lines worked over
  35. 4.2.1.2.2.1Preparation of the Route Book
  36. 4.2.1.2.2.2Modifications to information contained within the Route Book
  37. 4.2.1.2.2.3Informing the driver in real time
  38. 4.2.1.2.3Timetables
  39. 4.2.1.2.4Rolling stock
  40. 4.2.1.3Documentation for railway undertaking staff other than drivers
  41. 4.2.1.4Documentation for infrastructure manager’s staff authorising train movements
  42. 4.2.1.5Safety-related communications between train crew, other railway undertaking staff and staff authorising train movements
  43. Specifications relating to trains
  44. Train visibility
  45. 4.2.2.1.1General requirement
  46. 4.2.2.1.2Front end
  47. 4.2.2.1.3Rear end
  48. 4.2.2.1.3.1Passenger trains
  49. 4.2.2.1.3.2Freight trains in international traffic
  50. 4.2.2.1.3.3Freight trains not crossing a border between Member States
  51. Train audibility
  52. 4.2.2.2.1General requirement
  53. 4.2.2.2.2Control
  54. 4.2.2.3Vehicle identification
  55. Safety of passengers and load
  56. 4.2.2.4.1Safety of load
  57. 4.2.2.4.2Safety of passengers
  58. 4.2.2.5Train composition
  59. Train braking
  60. 4.2.2.6.1Minimum requirements of the braking system
  61. 4.2.2.6.2Braking performance and maximum speed allowed
  62. Ensuring that the train is in running order
  63. 4.2.2.7.1General requirement
  64. 4.2.2.7.2Data required
  65. 4.2.2.8Requirements for signal and line-side marker sighting
  66. 4.2.2.9Driver vigilance
  67. Specifications relating to train operations
  68. 4.2.3.1Train planning
  69. 4.2.3.2Identification of trains
  70. 4.2.3.2.1Format of train running number
  71. Train departure
  72. 4.2.3.3.1Checks and tests before departure
  73. 4.2.3.3.2Informing the infrastructure manager of the train’s operational status
  74. Traffic management
  75. 4.2.3.4.1General requirements
  76. Train reporting
  77. 4.2.3.4.2.1Data required for train position reporting
  78. 4.2.3.4.2.2Predicted handover time
  79. 4.2.3.4.3Dangerous goods
  80. 4.2.3.4.4Operational quality
  81. 4.2.3.5Data recording
  82. 4.2.3.5.1Recording of supervision data outside the train
  83. 4.2.3.5.2Recording of supervision data on board the train
  84. Degraded operation
  85. 4.2.3.6.1Advice to other users
  86. 4.2.3.6.2Advice to train drivers
  87. 4.2.3.6.3Contingency arrangements
  88. 4.2.3.7Managing an emergency situation
  89. 4.2.3.8Aid to train crew in the event of an incident or of a major rolling stock malfunction
  90. 4.3Functional and technical specifications of the interfaces
  91. 4.3.1Interfaces with the infrastructure TSI
  92. 4.3.2Interfaces with the control-command and signalling TSI
  93. Interfaces with the rolling stock TSIs
  94. 4.3.3.1Interfaces with TSI on locomotives and passenger rolling stock
  95. 4.3.3.2Interfaces with TSI on freight wagons
  96. 4.3.4Interfaces with the Energy TSI
  97. 4.3.5Interfaces with TSI on Safety in Railway Tunnels
  98. 4.4Operating rules
  99. 4.5Maintenance rules
  100. Professional competences
  101. 4.6.1Professional competence
  102. Language competence
  103. 4.6.2.1Principles
  104. 4.6.2.2Level of knowledge
  105. Initial and ongoing assessment of staff
  106. 4.6.3.1Basic elements
  107. 4.6.3.2Analysis and update of training needs
  108. 4.6.4Auxiliary staff
  109. Health and safety conditions
  110. 4.7.1Introduction
  111. Medical examinations and psychological assessments
  112. Before appointment
  113. 4.7.2.1.1Minimum content of the medical examination
  114. 4.7.2.1.2Psychological assessment
  115. After appointment
  116. 4.7.2.2.1Frequency of periodic medical examinations
  117. 4.7.2.2.2Minimum content of the periodic medical examination
  118. 4.7.2.2.3Additional medical examinations and/or psychological assessments
  119. Medical requirements
  120. 4.7.3.1General requirements
  121. 4.7.3.2Vision requirements
  122. 4.7.3.3Hearing requirements
  123. 4.8Registers of infrastructure and vehicles
  124. 4.8.1Infrastructure
  125. 4.8.2Rolling stock
  126. INTEROPERABILITY CONSTITUENTS
  127. 5.1Definition
  128. 5.2List of constituents
  129. ASSESSMENT OF CONFORMITY AND/OR SUITABILITY FOR USE OF THE CONSTITUENTS AND VERIFICATION OF THE SUBSYSTEM
  130. 6.1Interoperability constituents
  131. Operation and traffic management subsystem
  132. 6.2.1Principles
  133. IMPLEMENTATION
  134. 7.1Principles
  135. 7.2Implementation guidelines
  136. Specific cases
  137. 7.3.1Introduction
  138. List of specific cases
  139. 7.3.2.1Temporary specific case (T1) Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
  140. 7.3.2.2Temporary specific case (T2) Ireland and United Kingdom
  141. 7.3.2.3Temporary specific case (T3) Finland
  142. 7.3.2.4Permanent specific case (P1) Finland
  143. AAppendix A
  144. BAppendix B
  145. CAppendix C
  146. DAppendix D
  147. EAppendix E
  148. FAppendix F
  149. GAppendix G
  150. HAppendix H
  151. IAppendix I
  152. JAppendix J
  153. Annex IIAnnex II