Division 5 APPLICATION GUIDE FOR THE COMMON SPECIFICATIONS

The application guide for the common specifications referred to in Article 7 shall be made publicly available by the Agency on its website and updated as appropriate.

It shall provide extended definitions of all the objects and parameters of the register of infrastructure and guidance on the most common situations and on solutions for modelling the railway network.

It shall contain in particular:

1. (a)

   description of the functionalities provided by the RINF application;

2. (b)

   items and their corresponding description as specified as section 3.3 and in Table 1. For each field, at least its format, limit of value, conditions under which parameter is applicable and mandatory, railway technical rules for parameters values, reference to TSIs and other technical documents related to items of the register of infrastructure;

3. (c)

   detailed definitions and specifications for parameters;

4. (d)

   presentation of provisions for modelling the network and collecting data with relevant explanations and examples;

5. (e)

   procedures for validation and submission of data from registers of infrastructure of the Member States to the RINF application.

The application guide shall provide explanations on the specifications referred to in this Annex which are necessary for the proper development of the register of infrastructure system.