The Railways (Interoperability) (High-Speed) Regulations 2002

1. Introductory Text

2. PART I Preliminary

   1. 1. Citation and commencement

   2. 2. Interpretation etc.

   3. 3. Application of the Regulations

3. PART II Notified Bodies

   1. 4. Notified bodies

   2. 5. Appointment of notified bodies by the Authority

   3. 6. Requirement on notified bodies to carry out functions

   4. 7. Notified bodies: certificates of conformity etc.

   5. 8. Duties on notified bodies to consult

   6. 9. Notified bodies: fees

   7. 10. The Strategic Rail Authority: fees

4. PART III General Provisions

   1. 11. Interoperability constituents: prohibition on placing on the market

   2. 12. Interoperability constituents: duties on persons other than the person responsible

   3. 13. Structural subsystems: duties on a contracting entity

   4. 14. Structural subsystems: authorisation

   5. 15. Exemption from need to conform with the TSIs

   6. 16. Structural subsystems: screening decisions

   7. 17. Structural subsystems: staged works decisions

   8. 18. Fees payable to the supervisory authority

5. PART IV Assessment Procedures

   1. 19. Interoperability constituents: appropriate assessment procedure

   2. 20. Structural subsystems: appropriate verification assessment procedure

   3. 21. Effect of declarations

6. PART V Miscellaneous

   1. 22. Accessibility compliance certificates

   2. 23. Interoperability constituents: duties on operators

   3. 24. Structural subsystems: duties on owners

   4. 25. Interoperability constituents: position after placing on the market

   5. 26. Structural subsystems: duties in respect of registers

   6. 27. Notification of standards, technical specifications and technical rules to the Commission

   7. 28. Interoperability constituents: notification to the Commission

   8. 29. Notification to the Commission of additional checks

   9. 30. Interoperability constituents: recognition of assessments of other Member States

7. PART VI Enforcement

   1. 31. Enforcement in Great Britian

   2. 32. Enforcement in Northern Ireland

   3. 33. Notices relating to interoperability constituents not meeting the essential requirements

   4. 34. Defence of Due Diligence

   5. 35. Liability of persons other than the principal offender

8. PART VII Consequential Amendment

   1. 36. Amendment of the Railways and Other Transport Systems (Approval of Works, Plant and Equipment) Regulations 1994

9. PART VIII Transitional Provisions and Revocations

   1. 37. Transitional provisions and revocations

10. Signature

11. 1. SCHEDULE 1

       (Annex I to the high-speed Directive)

       1. 1. Infrastructure

       2. 2. Rolling Stock

       3. 3. Compatibility of infrastructure and rolling stock

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       (Annex II to the high-speed Directive)

       1. 1. For the purposes of this Directive, the system constituting the...

       2. 1.1. basically structural areas: infrastructures energy control and command and signalling...

       3. 1.2. basically operational areas: maintenance environment operation users.

       4. 2. For each subsystem, the list of aspects relating to interoperability...

       5. 3. Within the meaning of Article 5(3)(b), the following are regarded...

       6. BASIC PARAMETERS

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       (Annex III to the high-speed Directive)

       1. 1. General requirements

       2. 1.1. Safety

       3. 1.1.1. The design, construction or assembly, maintenance and monitoring of safety-critical...

       4. 1.1.2. The parameters involved in the wheel/rail contact must meet the...

       5. 1.1.3. The components used must withstand any normal or exceptional stresses...

       6. 1.1.4. The design of fixed installations and rolling stock and the...

       7. 1.1.5. Any devices intended to be handled by users must be...

       8. 1.2. Reliability and availability The monitoring and maintenance of fixed or...

       9. 1.3. Health

       10. 1.3.1. Materials likely, by virtue of the way they are used,...

       11. 1.3.2. Those materials must be selected, deployed and used in such...

       12. 1.4. Environmental protection

       13. 1.4.1. The repercussions on the environment of the establishment and operation...

       14. 1.4.2. The materials used in the trains and infrastructures must prevent...

       15. 1.4.3. The rolling stock and energy-supply systems must be designed and...

       16. 1.5. Technical compatibility The technical characteristics of the infrastructures and fixed...

       17. 2. Requirements specific to each subsystem

       18. 2.1. Infrastructures

       19. 2.1.1. Safety Appropriate steps must be taken to prevent access to...

       20. 2.2. Energy

       21. 2.2.1. Safety Operation of the energy-supply systems must not impair the...

       22. 2.2.2. Environmental protection The functioning of the energy-supply systems must not...

       23. 2.2.3. The electricity supply systems used throughout the trans-European high-speed rail...

       24. 2.3. Control and command and signalling

       25. 2.3.1. Safety The control and command and signalling installation and procedures...

       26. 2.3.2. Technical compatibility All new high-speed infrastructures and all new high-speed...

       27. 2.4. Rolling stock

       28. 2.4.1. Safety The rolling-stock structures and those of the links between...

       29. 2.4.2. Reliability and availability The design of the vital equipment and...

       30. 2.4.3. Technical compatibility The electrical equipment must be compatible with the...

       31. 2.5. Maintenance

       32. 2.5.1. Health The technical installations and the procedures used in the...

       33. 2.5.2. Environmental protection The technical installations and the procedures used in...

       34. 2.5.3. Technical compatibility The maintenance installations on high-speed trains must be...

       35. 2.6. Environment

       36. 2.6.1. Health Operation of the trans-European high-speed rail system must remain...

       37. 2.6.2. Environmental protection Operation of the trans-European high-speed rail system must...

       38. 2.7. Operation

       39. 2.7.1. Safety Alignment of the network operating rules and the qualifications...

       40. 2.7.2. Reliability and availability The operation and maintenance periods, the training...

       41. 2.7.3. Technical compatibility The alignment of the operating rules of the...

    4. SCHEDULE 4

       (Annex IV of the high-speed Directive)

       1. EC declaration

       2. 1. EC declaration

       3. 1.1. multiple-use constituents These are constituents that are not specific to...

       4. 1.2. multiple-use constituents having specific characteristics These are multiple-use constituents which...

       5. 1.3. specific constituents These are constituents that are specific to railway...

       6. 2. Scope The EC declaration covers: either the assessment by a...

       7. 3. Contents of the EC declaration The EC declaration of conformity...

    5. SCHEDULE 5

       (Annex V of the high-speed Directive)

       1. EC declaration of verification

    6. SCHEDULE 6

       (Annex VI to the high-speed Directive)

       1. EC verification

       2. 1. EC verification

       3. 2. The subsystem is checked at each of the following stages:...

       4. 3. The notified body responsible for EC verification draws up the...

       5. 4. The technical record accompanying the verification statement must be made...

       6. 5. Monitoring

       7. 5.1. The aim of EC monitoring is to ensure that the...

       8. 5.2. The notified body responsible for checking production must have permanent...

       9. 5.3. The body notified responsible for checking implementation must periodically carry...

       10. 5.4. In addition, the notified body may pay unexpected visits to...

       11. 6. The complete record referred to in paragraph 4 must be...

       12. 7. Each body must periodically pass on relevant information concerning the...

       13. 8. The records and correspondence relating to the EC verification procedures...

    7. SCHEDULE 7

       (Annex VII to the high-speed Directive)

       1. 1. The body, its Director and the staff responsible for carrying...

       2. 2. The body and the staff responsible for inspection must carry...

       3. 3. That body must employ staff and possess the means required...

       4. 4. The staff responsible for the checks must possess: proper technical...

       5. 5. The independence of the staff responsible for inspections must be...

       6. 6. The body must take out civil liability insurance unless that...

       7. 7. The staff of that body are bound by professional secrecy...

    8. SCHEDULE 8

       RAIL NETWORK SCHEMES

       1. 1. The rail network schemes are the following lines—

12. Explanatory Note