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

Amendments to Commission Decision 2007/756/EC

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

13.—(1) The Annex is amended as follows.

(2) In the table in Section 1 (data)—

(a)at item 1, in the second column of the row marked “Content”—

(i)for “Technical Specification for Interoperability (TSI)” substitute “NTSN”;

(ii)for “OPE TSI” substitute “OPE NTSN”;

(b)in item 2—

(i)in the second column of the first row, for “Member State and NSA” substitute “Safety Authority”;

(ii)in the row marked “Content”, for the text in the second column substitute “Safety Authority that authorised its placing in service”;

(iii)in the row marked “Format”—

(aa)omit point 2.1;

(bb)in point 2.2, for “NSA” substitute “Safety Authority”;

(c)in item 4, after “EC”, in each place it occurs, insert “or UK”;

(d)in item 5—

(i)for “European Register of Authorised Types of Vehicles (ERATV)” substitute “UK List of Authorised Types”;

(ii)for “ERATV”, in each place it occurs, substitute “the UK List of Authorised Types”;

(e)omit item 11;

(f)in item 12, for “NSA” substitute “the Safety Authority”.

(3) Omit Section 2 (architecture).

(4) In Section 3 (operating mode)—

(a)in section 3.1 omit the third indent;

(b)in the second paragraph of paragraph 3.2.1, for the words from “to the:” to the end of the second indent substitute “to the RE.”;

(c)in paragraph 3.2.2 omit the final sentence;

(d)in paragraph 3.2.3—

(i)in the fourth indent of the first paragraph, for “REs of all the Member States where the vehicle is registered” substitute “RE”;

(ii)in the third paragraph, for “‘registration holder’” to the end of the paragraph substitute “owner of the vehicle referred to in regulation 36(8) of the 2011 Regulations”;

(iii)in the fifth paragraph—

(aa)for “OPE TSI” substitute “OPE NTSN”;

(bb)for “registration holder shall inform of” substitute “owner of the vehicle shall inform the RE of”;

(cc)omit “the RE of the Member State where the vehicle is registered”;

(e)in paragraph 3.2.4, for “REs of all the Member States where the vehicle is registered” substitute “RE”;

(f)omit paragraph 3.2.5;

(g)in paragraph 3.2.6(1)—

(i)omit from “in accordance with Articles 21 to 26 of Directive 2008/57/EC” to “Council”;

(ii)for “Articles 21 and 24 of Directive (EU) 2016/797” substitute “the 2011 Regulations”;

(iii)for “of the Member State where” substitute “with which”;

(h)omit paragraph 3.2.6(2);

(i)in section 3.3—

(i)for “to data of an NVR from a given Member State ‘XX’” substitute “for the relevant entities to data in the UK NVR”;

(ii)in the table—

(aa)in the first column of the header row, before “Entity” insert “Relevant”;

(bb)in the first column of the first row omit “of Member State ‘XX’”;

(cc)in the third column of the first row omit “of MS XX”;

(dd)in the first column of the second row, for “NSA” substitute “Safety Authority”;

(ee)omit the third row;

(ff)for the words in the first column of the ninth row substitute “Rail Accident Investigation Branch”;

(gg)in the first and second columns of the tenth row, after “EC” insert “or UK”;

(hh)in the first column of the eleventh row, for “NSA or the Agency” substitute “the Safety Authority”;

(iii)omit the sentence after the table.

(5) In Section 4 (existing vehicles)—

(a)in paragraph 4.1.1(a)—

(i)for “Countries where there is a unique country code” substitute “Vehicles with numbers issued outside the UK”;

(ii)omit from “Countries where there is both” to the end of subparagraph (a);

(b)in paragraph 4.1.1(b), for “OPE TSI” substitute “OPE NTSN”;

(c)omit paragraph 4.1.2;

(d)in the heading to paragraph 4.1.4, after “EC” insert “or UK”;

(e)in paragraph 4.1.5—

(i)in the heading, for “ERATV” substitute “UK List of Authorised Types”;

(ii)omit the second paragraph;

(f)omit paragraph 4.1.11;

(g)in section 4.2—

(i)in the first paragraph—

(aa)for “NSA” substitute “Safety Authority”;

(bb)omit “of the country where it is located”;

(ii)for the second paragraph substitute—

Existing freight wagons and passenger cars must be registered in the UK NVR.;

(iii)omit the third paragraph;

(iv)in the fourth paragraph, for “NSA” substitute “Safety Authority”;

(v)in the fifth paragraph—

(aa)for “NSA” substitute “Safety Authority”;

(bb)omit the third indent.