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Division 5 OUTCOMES OF SUPERVISION ACTIVITIES

United Kingdom

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F1(1.)

The national safety authority shall:

  1. (a)

    share results of its supervision activities with the relevant railway undertaking or infrastructure manager, including identifying areas of non-compliance on the part of the railway undertaking or infrastructure manager and any areas of good practice to support safety improvement;

  2. (b)

    have an overview of the safety performance of the individual railway undertakings or infrastructure managers operating in its F2geographical area of responsibility;

  3. (c)

    publish and communicate to relevant stakeholders its views on the overall safety performance in the F3geographical area of responsibility;

  4. (d)

    publish and communicate to relevant stakeholders its views on the effectiveness of the safety regulatory framework;

  5. (e)

    use and when relevant, share information on the performance of the safety management system gathered during the supervision of railway undertakings or infrastructure managers, prior to reassessing the application for a renewal or an update of the single safety certificate or the safety authorisation, with the F4... safety certification body or the relevant national safety authority, in the case of cross-border infrastructure;

  6. (f)

    where appropriate, take any enforcement actions, identify whether there is a case for restricting or revoking the single safety certificate or safety authorisation and in cases where it is not responsible for issuing the single safety certificate or safety authorisation, inform the competent authority accordingly.

F5(2.)

For the purposes of subparagraph 1(e), “safety certification body” means the European Union Agency for Railways acting as a body responsible for issuing a single safety certificate under Article 10 of Directive (EU) 2016/798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on railway safety (recast) and “national safety authority” includes a safety authority established in a member State of the European Union under Article 16 of that Directive.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Annex 1 para. 5 renumbered as Annex 1 para. 5(1) (31.12.2020) by The Railways (Safety, Access, Management and Interoperability) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1310), regs. 1(2)(d), 11(6)(a)(i), 12(6)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Words in Annex 1 para. 5(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Railways (Safety, Access, Management and Interoperability) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1310), regs. 1(2)(d), 11(6)(a)(ii), 12(6)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3

Words in Annex 1 para. 5(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Railways (Safety, Access, Management and Interoperability) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1310), regs. 1(2)(d), 11(6)(a)(ii), 12(6)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4

Words in Annex 1 para. 5(1)(e) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Railways (Safety, Access, Management and Interoperability) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1310), regs. 1(2)(d), 11(6)(a)(ii), 12(6)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5

Annex 1 para. 5(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Railways (Safety, Access, Management and Interoperability) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1310), regs. 1(2)(d), 11(6)(a)(iii), 12(6)(a)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)