{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-402/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-402/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Acceptance of accreditation/recognition",
  "text": "1. When granting the safety certificate or the safety authorisation in accordance with regulation 7 or 10 of the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006, or Chapter 3 of the Schedule to the Channel Tunnel (Safety) (Amendment) Order 2013, a national safety authority shall accept accreditation or recognition in Northern Ireland, as proof of the ability of the railway undertaking or infrastructure manager to act as an assessment body.\n2. When granting the certificate to an entity in charge of maintenance in accordance with Schedule 10 to the Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006, the certification body shall accept such accreditation or recognition in Northern Ireland, as proof of the ability of the entity in charge of maintenance to act as assessment body.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(1) substituted (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(9)(a)(i) (as substituted by S.I. 2019/1310, regs. 1(2)(c), 7(4)(d)(i)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/837), regs. 1, 16(9)(a)(ii) (as substituted by S.I. 2019/1310, regs. 1(2)(c), 7(4)(d)(i)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(2) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/837), regs. 1, 16(9)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(2) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/837), regs. 1, 16(9)(b)(ii) (as substituted by S.I. 2019/1310, regs. 1(2)(c), 7(4)(d)(ii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/402/article/8",
    "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."
}