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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-757/annex-I/division-4/division-4.2/division-4.2.3/division-4.2.3.6/division-4.2.3.6.3",
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  "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/division/4/division/4.2/division/4.2.3/division/4.2.3.6/division/4.2.3.6.3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4.2.3.6.3",
  "heading": "Contingency arrangements",
  "text": "The infrastructure manager in conjunction with all the railway undertakings operating over his infrastructure, and neighbouring infrastructure managers as appropriate, must define, publish and make available appropriate contingency measures and assign responsibilities based on the requirement to reduce any negative impact as a result of degraded operation.\nThe planning requirements and the response to such events must be proportional to the nature and potential severity of the degradation.\nThese measures, which must as a minimum include plans for recovering the network to ‘ normal ’ status, may also address:\nrolling stock failures (for example, those which could result in substantial traffic disruption, the procedures for rescuing failed trains),\ninfrastructure failures (for example, when there has been a failure of the electric power or the conditions under which trains may be diverted from the booked route),\nextreme weather conditions.\nThe infrastructure manager must establish and keep updated contact information for key infrastructure manager and railway undertaking staff who may be contacted in the event of service disruption leading to degraded operation. This information must include contact details both during and outside office hours.\nThe railway undertaking must submit this information to the infrastructure manager and advise the infrastructure manager of any changes to these contact details.\nThe infrastructure manager must advise all the railway undertaking(s) of any changes to his details.",
  "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)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/757/annex/I/division/4/division/4.2/division/4.2.3/division/4.2.3.6/division/4.2.3.6.3",
    "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."
}