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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2016-798/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2016/798",
  "legislation_title": "Directive (EU) 2016/798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on railway safety (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2016-798",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Subject matter",
  "text": "This Directive lays down provisions to ensure the development and improvement of the safety of the Union rail system and improved access to the market for rail transport services by:\n(a) harmonising the regulatory structure in the Member States;\n(b) defining responsibilities between the actors in the Union rail system;\n(c) developing common safety targets (‘CSTs’) and common safety methods (‘CSMs’) with a view to gradually removing the need for national rules;\n(d) setting out the principles for issuing, renewing, amending and restricting or revoking safety certificates and authorisations;\n(e) requiring the establishment, for each Member State, of a national safety authority and an accident and incident investigating body; and\n(f) defining common principles for the management, regulation and supervision of railway safety.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2016/798/article/1",
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  },
  "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."
}