Division 3 The assessment body shall be accredited or recognised for assessing the overall consistency of the risk management and the safe integration of the system under assessment into the railway system as a whole. This shall include competence of the assessment body in checking the following:

organisation, that is the arrangements necessary to ensure a coordinated approach to achieving system safety through a uniform understanding and application of risk control measures for subsystems;

methodology, that is evaluation of the methods and resources deployed by various stakeholders to support safety at subsystem and system level; and

the technical aspects necessary for assessing the relevance and completeness of risk assessments and the level of safety for the system as a whole.