# Commission Directive (EU) 2016/882 of 1 June 2016 amending Directive 2007/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards language requirements (Text with EEA relevance), Division 3: In case of sections between the borders and the stations situated close to the borders and designated for cross border operations, drivers of trains operated by a railway undertaking may be exempted by the infrastructure manager from the requirements of paragraph 2, provided that the following procedure is applied:

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(a) the railway undertaking shall request a derogation to the infrastructure manager for the concerned drivers. In order to ensure a fair and equal treatment of the applicants, to each submitted request for derogation the infrastructure manager shall apply the same assessment procedure, which shall be part of the network statement;
(b) the infrastructure manager shall grant a derogation if the railway undertaking can demonstrate that it has made sufficient arrangements for ensuring communication between the concerned drivers and the staff of the infrastructure manager in routine, degraded and emergency situations, as provided for in paragraph 1;
(c) railway undertakings and infrastructure managers shall ensure that the concerned staff is aware of those rules and arrangements and receive appropriate training through their safety management systems.’

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2016/882/annex/division/8/division/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2016-882/annex/division-8/division-3
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