The Railways (Interoperability) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Amendments to Commission Decision 2007/756/EC

19.—(1) Appendix 6 is amended as follows.

(2) In Part ‘0’ (vehicle identification)—

(a) in the table, in relation to rolling stock group “Tractive rolling stock and units in a train set in fixed or pre-defined formation”, in the fourth column for technical characteristics omit “[the meaning of these figures is defined by Member States, eventually by bilateral or multilateral agreements]”;

(b) in the first paragraph after the table, for “In a given country, the” substitute “The”;

(c) in the second paragraph after the table, beginning “Alphabetical markings” omit subparagraph (a);

(d) in the last paragraph after the table, beginning “The European Vehicle Number”, for the second sentence substitute “Such technical modifications may require a new authorisation for placing in service in accordance with regulation 13 of the 2011 Regulations.”.

(3) In Part 1 (Vehicle Keeper Marking)—

(a) in point 1 omit the second paragraph;

(b) in point 2 omit the second and third paragraphs;

(c) in point 3, in the first paragraph omit the first indent;

(d) in point 4—

(i) in the second paragraph—

(aa) for “applicant’s competent national authority and forwarded to the ERA” substitute “Safety Authority”;

(bb) omit the second sentence;

(ii) in the third paragraph—

(aa) for “competent national authority”, in the first place it occurs, substitute “Safety Authority”;

(bb) omit “and the competent national authority will forward the information to the ERA”.

(4) In Part 6 (Interoperability codes used for wagons)—

(a) in the first column, for “TSI WAG” substitute “WAG NTSN”;

(b) in relation to the entry for “Other wagons”, in the column marked “9”, omit “not placed in service in EU”.

(5) In Parts 9 to 13—

(a) for “ERA website”, in each place it occurs, substitute “website of the European Union Agency for Railways”;

(b) in the second paragraph of each Part omit “(as referred to in Decision 2007/756/EC)” to the end of the paragraph.