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Directive 2001/16/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system (repealed)
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‘EC’ verification is the procedure whereby a notified body checks and certifies, at the request of a contracting entity or of its authorised representative established within the Community, that a subsystem:
complies with the Directive;
complies with the other regulations deriving from the Treaty, and may be put into operation.
The subsystem is checked at each of the following stages:
overall design;
construction of subsystem, including, in particular, civil-engineering activities, constituent assembly, overall adjustment;
final testing of the subsystem.
The notified body responsible for ‘EC’ verification draws up the certificate of conformity intended for the contracting entity or its authorised representative established within the Community, which in turn draws up the ‘EC’ declaration of verification intended for the supervisory authority in the Member State in which the subsystem is located and/or operates.
The technical file accompanying the declaration of verification must be made up as follows:
for infrastructure: engineering-structure plans, approval records for excavations and reinforcement, testing and inspection reports on concrete;
for the other subsystems: general and detailed drawings in line with execution, electrical and hydraulic diagrams, control-circuit diagrams, description of data-processing and automatic systems, operating and maintenance manuals, etc.;
list of interoperability constituents, as referred to in Article 3, incorporated into the subsystem;
copies of the ‘EC’ declarations of conformity or suitability for use with which the abovementioned constituents must be provided in accordance with Article 13 of the Directive accompanied, where appropriate, by the corresponding calculation notes and a copy of the records of the tests and examinations carried out by the notified bodies on the basis of the common technical specifications;
certificate from the notified body responsible for ‘EC’ verification, accompanied by corresponding calculation notes and countersigned by itself, stating that the project complies with this Directive and mentioning any reservations recorded during performance of the activities and not withdrawn; the certificate should also be accompanied by the inspection and audit reports drawn up by the same body in connection with its task, as specified in sections 5.3 and 5.4.
The complete file referred to in paragraph 4 must be lodged with the contracting entity or its authorised agent established within the Community in support of the certificate of conformity issued by the notified body responsible for verification of the subsystem in working order. The file must be attached to the ‘EC’ declaration of verification which the contracting entity sends to the supervisory authority in the Member State concerned.
A copy of the file must be kept by the contracting entity throughout the service life of the subsystem. It must be sent to any other Member States which so request.
Each notified body must periodically publish relevant information concerning:
requests for ‘EC’ verification received;
certificates of conformity issued;
certificates of conformity refused.
The files and correspondence relating to the ‘EC’ verification procedures must be written in an official language of the Member State in which the contracting entity or its authorised representative within the Community is established or in a language accepted by the entity.
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