Article 17 Risk control management and auditsE1

The railway undertakings and infrastructure managers shall include audits of the application of this Regulation in their recurrent auditing scheme for the safety management system as referred to in F1regulations 5 and 6 of the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 or paragraphs 22 to 26 of the Schedule to the Channel Tunnel (Safety) (Amendment) Order 2013.

The entities in charge of maintenance shall include audits of the application of this Regulation in their recurrent auditing scheme for the system of maintenance as referred to in F2regulation 18A of the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 or paragraphs 55A and 55B of the Schedule to the Channel Tunnel (Safety) (Amendment) Order 2013.

F3The national safety authority shall supervise the application of this Regulation by railway undertakings, infrastructure managers and the entities in charge of maintenance that do not fall within the scope of F4Schedule 10 to the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 but are identified in its National Vehicle Register.

As part of the tasks defined in F5paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 10 to the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006, the certification body of an entity in charge of maintenance of freight wagons shall perform surveillance of the application of this Regulation by the entity in charge of maintenance.