The Railways (Interoperability) (Notified Bodies) Regulations 2000

Made: 26th June 2000

Laid before Parliament: 27th June 2000

Coming into force: 18th July 2000

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Citation and commencement

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Interpretation

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Functions of Notified Bodies

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Notified bodies shall be responsible in Great Britain for—

• (a) assessing the conformity or suitability for use of interoperability constituents against the relevant essential requirements by applying the procedures referred to in annex IV of the Railways Interoperability Directive;

• (b) applying the procedures for the verification of structural subsystems referred to in annex VI of the Railways Interoperability Directive in respect of the rail network schemes specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations; and

• (c) consulting other notified bodies appointed pursuant to the Railways Interoperability Directive throughout the European Community in relation to the functions referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above to ensure that, particularly in the absence of technical specifications for interoperability, the procedures for assessment and verification required under the Railways Interoperability Directive are consistently applied within the European Community.

Notified bodies appointed by the Secretary of State

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Fees

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Notification to the European Commission and other Member States

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SCHEDULE 1 — RAIL NETWORK SCHEMES

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SCHEDULE 2 — MINIMUM CRITERIA FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF NOTIFIED BODIES

The minimum criteria for the purposes of regulation 4 are—

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The notified body must be able to demonstrate that those of its employees who are responsible for carrying out the assessment and verification operations:—

• (a) have had proper technical and vocational training in relation to the operations that they are to carry out;

• (b) possess a satisfactory knowledge of the requirements relating to the operations that they carry out and sufficient practice in carrying those operations;

• (c) possess the ability to draw up any such certificates, records and reports as may be required as formal record of the inspections conducted; and

• (d) are required to maintain professional confidentiality with regard to everything they learn in the performance of their duties.

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Signed

Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Gus MacDonald — Minister of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 26th June 2000

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1996/266.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: OJ No. L235, 17.9.96, p. 6.

[^f00004]: 1987 c. 53.

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The minimum criteria for the purposes of regulation 4 are—

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Editorial notes

[^key-dddb8793c70e5d4fc4357cbc14a61af5]: Regulations revoked (16.5.2002) by The Railways (Interoperability) (High-Speed) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/1166), regs. 1, 37(1) (with reg. 37(4))

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