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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-1136/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2015/1136",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1136 of 13 July 2015 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 402/2013 on the common safety method for risk evaluation and assessment (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-1136",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Implementing Regulation (EU) No 402/2013 is amended as follows:\n(1) Article 3 is amended as follows:\n(a) point (9) is replaced by the following:\n(9) ‘“safety requirements” means the safety characteristics (qualitative or quantitative, or when needed both qualitative and quantitative) necessary for the design, operation (including operational rules) and maintenance of a system in order to meet legal or company safety targets;’\n(b) point (23) is replaced by the following:\n(23) ‘“catastrophic accident” means an accident typically affecting a large number of people and resulting in multiple fatalities;’\n(c) the following points (32) to (37) are added:\n(32) ‘“systematic failure” means a failure that occurs repeatedly under some particular combination of inputs or under some particular environmental or application conditions;\n(33) “systematic fault” means an inherent fault in the specification, design, manufacturing, installation, operation or maintenance of the system under assessment;\n(34) “barrier” means a technical, operational or organisational risk control measure outside the system under assessment that either reduces the frequency of occurrence of a hazard or mitigates the severity of the potential consequence of that hazard;\n(35) “critical accident” means an accident typically affecting a very small number of people and resulting in at least one fatality;\n(36) “highly improbable” means an occurrence of failure at a frequency less than or equal to 10– 9 per operating hour;\n(37) “improbable” means an occurrence of failure at a frequency less than or equal to 10– 7 per operating hour.’\n(2) Annex I is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/1136/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:35.406053+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."
}