Agency’s activities concerning national safety rules

1. Agency’s activities concerningnational safety rules Natalja Skačenko Safety Unit Safety Regulation Sector Meeting in Sofia

2. Registration of the notifiednational safety rules Meeting in Sofia

3. Validation of notifications • 1200 rules are notified: • Clarified and renewed notifications of existing rules received in 2008 (less than 1000 rules, i.e. 5 times less than in 2005) • Rules of Bulgaria and Romania • New rules of other countries • So far 618 rules are uploaded to the PDB. • Some of these rules have been uploaded by the MS/NSA’s as part of the actual notification. Meeting in Sofia

4. Use of rule declaration form - April 2009 Meeting in Sofia

5. Number of the rules in the PDB - 618 Meeting in Sofia

6. Types of rules in some countries Meeting in Sofia

7. Legal changes for type 3 NSR • Directive 2008/57/EC (the new Interoperability Directive) • Directive 2008/110/EC amending the Railway Safety Directive ↓ Type 3 rules are now included as national technical rules to be notified under Article 17 (3) of the Interoperability Directive. ↓ Short note and updates of the Guideline for NSR notification Meeting in Sofia

8. Changes in the notification procedure The Commission is introducing a new electronic system for notifying NSR and NTR: RISD – Railway Interoperability and Safety Database Planned use as from September 2009 Same rule declaration form will be used Meeting in Sofia

9. Existing solutions (source DG TREN) • Member States notify their safety rules online • Through the ERA web application. • Notification of technical rules • Via email exchanges + letters between the Member States and the Commission. Meeting in Sofia

10. Existing problems (source DG TREN) • Huge amount of email + paper files • Inefficiency in management of required follow-up • No data content harmonisation: increase the work effort for he Commission in order to merge the information. • No transparency • Difficulties in storing information • Two separate workflows(Commission & ERA) Meeting in Sofia

11. Proposed solution (source DG TREN) • The RISD web application:Railway Interoperability and Safety Database: PURPOSE: • Unique entry point for all notifications (safety and technical rules) • Automatisation of notification process • Harmonization of content Meeting in Sofia

12. Proposed solution (source DG TREN) • Help the member States in their notification tasks (pre-filled forms, features to save ongoing notifications, etc) • Assure persistence of information • Facilitate its retrieval • Provide automatic transparency: notifications automatically available to Member States and public Meeting in Sofia

13. Preparations for using RISD The Commission will: • Create steering group with volunteered MS and ERA • Organise workshop on the use of the database • Update Guideline for NSR notification (procedure and use of rule declaration form) ERA will: Download NSR to RISD – no need to re-notify NSR! Solution for NTR will be discussed with RISC Meeting in Sofia

14. Evaluation of how national safety rules are published and made available in the Member States Meeting in Sofia

15. Phase I Scope: Notifications that were accepted (NO, NL), clarified (BE, EE, FR, SE), clarified but not yet notified (DK, IE, IT) and new (NO, SE, DK) 67 interview partners contributed to the external study Preliminary conclusions and examples of good practice have been discussed with MS/NSA (Please consult details on ERA Extranet) Meeting in Sofia

16. Phase I – examples of preliminary conclusions • Transparent policy on consultation of stakeholders – list including RU, IM, and manufacturers • preparation of rules • formal consultation of draft rule • Systematic review of NSR to take into account: • technological developments of RS • operational practices, • European legislation • Develop NSA web – sites as primary source with search aids Meeting in Sofia

17. Phase I – examples of good practice • NSA web sites as primary source of NSR • collections of relevant legislation (NO) • handbooks of rules (SE) • guidelines (IE) • IM provides access to all operational rules (IT) Meeting in Sofia

18. Proposal for NSR task force • Propose and exchange good practice • policy and procedures for consultation of stakeholders • regimes for monitoring and reviewing NSR • guidelines on publication and accessibility of NSR • New approaches to establishment of NSR Proposal on task force activities in 2010 Meeting in Sofia

19. Current activities in Phase 2 Scope: Renewed notifications from AT, CZ, DE, EL, ES, FI, HU, LT, LU, LV, PL, PT, SI, SK, UK and CT and notifications from BG and RO. Activities: • Validation of the notifications • Registration of the rules in the database • Examination of the rules how they are published and made available Meeting in Sofia

20. Evaluation of the rules how they are published and made available (1) • A consortium, KEMA - CETREN, has interviewed ministries, NSA, RU and IM in 17 MS and CT during March-April 2009 • The consortium will deliver report end July 2009 with information from the interviews • As in phase I, the report will be sent to the concerned NSR contact persons for validation Meeting in Sofia

21. Evaluation of the rules how they are published and made available (2) The Agency will: • examine the notified rules using the findings in the report from the consortium • prepare a combined report for phase 1 and 2 concerning the publication and availability of the rules • deliver recommendations to the Commission for publication of the rules in order to make the relevant information more easily accessible - end 2009 Meeting in Sofia

22. Other activities Meeting in Sofia

23. Other NSR-related activities The Agency assists the Commission: • First technical advice to the Commission was issued on 3 April 2009 • The Agency evaluates national laws implementing the Directive 2004/49/EC (mandate in July 2008) The Agency shall issue technical opinion by request of: • The Commission – on new national safety rules • DERC or regulatory bodies – on safety issues Meeting in Sofia

24. Thank you for your attention