{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-757/annex-I/appendix-H", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-757/annex-I/appendix-H.json", "legislation": "eudn/2012/757", "legislation_title": "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)", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-757", "path": "annex/I/appendix/H", "kind": "appendix", "number": "H", "heading": null, "text": "European Vehicle Number and linked alphabetical marking on the bodywork\n1.\nGENERAL PROVISIONS ON THE EUROPEAN VEHICLE NUMBER\nThe European Vehicle Number is assigned according to the codes defined in Commission Decision 2007/756/EC , Appendix 6.\nThe European Vehicle Number shall be changed when it does not reflect the interoperability capability or technical characteristics according to this Appendix due to technical modifications of the vehicle. Such technical modifications may require a new placing in service according to Articles 20 to 25 of Directive 2008/57/EC.\n2.\nGENERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR EXTERNAL MARKINGS\nThe capital letters and figures making up the marking inscriptions shall be at least 80 mm in height, in a sans serif font type of correspondence quality. A smaller height may only be used where there is no option but to place the marking on the sole bars.\nThe marking is put not higher than 2 metres above rail level.\nThe keeper can add, in letters of larger size than the European Vehicle Number, an own number marking (consisting generally of digits of the serial number supplemented by alphabetical coding) useful in operations. The place where the own number is marked is left to the choice of the keeper, however it must be always be possible to distinguish easily the European Vehicle Number from the keeper’s own number marking.\n3.\nWAGONS\nThe marking shall be inscribed on the wagon bodywork in the following manner:\n23.\nTEN\n31.\nTEN\n33.\nTEN\n80\nD -RFC\n80\nD -DB\n84\nNL -ACTS\n7369\n553-4\n0691\n235-2\n4796\n100-8\nZcs\nTanoos\nSlpss\nWhere in the examples:\nD and NL stand for the registering Member State as set out in NVR-decision 2007/756/EC, Appendix 6, part 4.\nRFC, DB and ACTS stand for the keeper marking as set out in NVR-decision 2007/756/EC, Appendix 6, part 1.\nFor wagons whose bodywork does not offer a large enough area for this type of arrangement, particularly in the case of flat wagons, the marking shall be arranged as follows:\n01\n87\n3320 644-7\nTEN\nF-SNCF\nKs\nWhen one or more index letters of national significance are inscribed on a wagon, this national marking must be shown after the international letter marking and separated from it by a hyphen as follows:\n01\n87\n3320 644-7\nTEN\nF-SNCF\nKs-xy\n4.\nCOACHES AND HAULED PASSENGER STOCK\nThe number shall be applied to each sidewall of the vehicle in the following manner:\nF -SNCF\n61 87 20 - 72 021 - 7\nB 10 tu\nThe marking of the country in which the vehicle is registered and of the technical characteristics are printed directly in front of, behind or under the twelve digits of the vehicle number.\nIn case of coaches with driver’s cabin, the European Vehicle Number is also written inside the cabin.\n5.\nLOCOMOTIVES, POWER CARS AND SPECIAL VEHICLES\nThe European Vehicle Number must be marked on each sidewall of the tractive stock in the following manner:\n92 10 1108 062-6\nThe European Vehicle Number is also written inside each cabin of the tractive rolling stock.\n6.\nALPHABETICAL MARKING OF THE INTEROPERABILITY CAPABILITY\n‘ TEN ’ : Vehicle which:\n(a) complies with all relevant TSIs which are in force at the moment of placing in service and has been authorised to be placed in service in accordance with Article 22(1) of Directive 2008/57/EC; and\n(b) is provided with an authorisation valid in all Member States in accordance with Article 23(1) of Directive 2008/57/EC.\n’ PPV/PPW ’ : Vehicle which complies with PPV/PPW or PGW agreement (inside OSJD States). (original: PPV/PPW: ППВ (Правила пользования вагонами в международном сообщении); PGW: Правила Пользования Грузовыми Вагонами)\nVehicles which are not authorised to be placed in service in all Member States in accordance with Article 23(1) of Directive 2008/57/EC need a marking indicating the Member States where the vehicle is authorised to be placed in service. This marking shall be according to one of the following drawings, where D stands for the Member State who has granted the first authorisation (in the given example, Germany) and F stands for the second authorising MS (in the given example, France). The MS are codified in accordance with Decision 2007/756/EC, Appendix 6, part 4.", "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "F", "label": "F1", "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/995 of 8 June 2015 amending Decision 2012/757/EU concerning the technical specification for interoperability relating to the ‘operation and traffic management’ subsystem of the rail system in the European Union (Text with EEA relevance)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "Commission Decision 2007/756/EC of 9 November 2007 adopting a common specification of the national vehicle register provided for under Articles 14(4) and (5) of Directives 96/48/EC and 2001/16/EC ( OJ L 305, 23.11.2007, p. 30 )." } ], "outstanding_effects": [], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/757/annex/I/appendix/H", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:15.033136+00:00" }, "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0", "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/", "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives." }