{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-402/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-402/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/402",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 402/2013 of 30 April 2013 on the common safety method for risk evaluation and assessment and repealing Regulation (EC) No 352/2009 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-402",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Accreditation/recognition of the assessment body",
  "text": "The assessment body provided for in Article 6 shall be either:\n(a)accredited by the national accreditation body ... using the criteria defined in Annex II; or\n(b)recognised by the recognition body ... using the criteria defined in Annex II; or\n(c)the national safety authority where it fulfils the requirements set out in Annex II and the accreditation functions of the national safety authority are demonstrably independent of its other functions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7 omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/837), regs. 1, 16(8)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1); and words in Art. 7 omitted (N.I.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/837), regs. 1, 21(8)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/837), regs. 1, 16(8)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1); and words in Art. 7 substituted (N.I.) (31.12.2020) by The Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/837), regs. 1, 21(8)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/402/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:41.795166+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."
}