4th Railway Package –
Implementation of the Technical Pillar
Challenges Ahead for the Polish Railway Sector
20 April 2017, Warsaw
Josef Doppelbauer, ERA Executive Director
Objectives of the Technical Pillar of the 4RP
“Safety First”
Facilitate the completion of the
Single European Railway Area
- removing the remaining
technical barriers
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The Interoperability Vision
The legacy of national monopolies with national rules means that where rail could be most competitive
(long distance freight and medium distance high speed passenger), fragmentation undermines
competitive position of railways (“95% of our traffic is national”)
One set of rules (= network)
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Key Elements of the Technical Pillar
The Agency will issue single EU-wide vehicle authorisations and
safety certificates
to train manufacturers and railway undertakings
The Agency will be in a position to issue an approval required for the NSA
authorisation of ERTMS trackside projects
(a binding opinion on ERTMS trackside specifications)
All applications to the above processes will be handled by
the so-called One-Stop-Shop developed by the Agency
• Covering applications at the Agency, but all national applications for Safety Certification, Vehicle
authorisation, and trackside/infrastructure authorisation as well
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Timeline
Phase 2 - Check
Phase 1 – Plan / Do
Phase 3 - Act
Transposition in MS
EC Working Group on 4RP implementation
Learning cases
Establisment of learning case phase
SSC process
VA process
Revision of the CSM on Ca and Supervision
Practical Arrangements for SSC
Guide for SSC
Practical Arrangements for VA
Guide for VA
EC model for declaration of verification
ERTMS approval process
Cooperation
Agreement framework
Cooperation Agreement – Preparatory work
ICS draft specs
Definition of
fees&charges
Apportionment
of fees&charges
ERA Internal Procedure for fees&charges
ICS Dev
ICS Spec/Dev
Board of appeal (definition)
ERA /
NSAs
delivering
4RWP
Dissemination/training of
new processes
Specific Cooperation
Agreements
Agency internal staff competency
Establishment of a Pool of Experts
Definition Hard & soft
skills
(ERA/NSAs)
Internal procedures
for VA
Internal procedures for ERTMS
approval
Guide for ERTMS Approval
Study on fees
& Charges
Internal procedures
for SSC
Shadow Running
Shadow
Running
(ERA/NSAs)
(ERA/NSAs)
Shadow Running
(ERA/NSAs)
Shadow
Running
ICS Dev/Operation
ICS Operation
Board of appeal (establishment)
BoA effective
Liability
Integrated Management System (IMS in ERA)
2016
e.i.f. of legal text
15/06/2016
IMS including 4RWP processes (in ERA)
2017
2018
Mgt Board Consultation
2019
Adoption by Mgt Board
15/06/2019
2019
EC legal act
Member States are encouraged to appoint their own programme managers
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The Success of the Technical Pillar
Needs Full Commitment of All Actors
Commission
Member
States
Agency and
NSAs
• Adopt Implementing Acts during transition period for:
- practical arrangements for vehicle authorization and safety
certificates
- principles specifying fees and charges payable to the Agency
(12 legal acts in total, to be adopted during transition period)
• Put in place national legislation to
transpose the 4th railway package by 15 June 2019
• Conclude cooperation agreements before end of
transition period
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Future Cooperation Agency - NSAs
(to be signed with all NSAs)
• Description of the tasks
• Conditions for deliverables and applicable time limits
• Applicants’ fees distribution between Agency and NSAs
• Without prejudice to the Agency’s full responsibility for
its decisions
Tasks remaining
under
Member State
responsibility
• Vehicle authorisation and safety certification for
national traffic
(if applicant decides so)
• Authorisation of railway infrastructure
• Supervision (NSA)
• Accident investigation (NIB)
Cooperation
agreements
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What has the Agency done for us?
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The New Vehicle Authorisation
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Authorisation
National
by
Authorities
ERA
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SERA Conference Series
• A pan-European event series
to go along with the transition
of the 4RP into national law
• An open discussion on
expectations and realities of
the new processes among the
key players of the rail sector
• Hosted by the Commission
with ERA, in collaboration
with MS and NSAs, and sector
representatives (RUs, RMs,
IMs, NoBos etc.)
• What we expect from MS:
• Invitation lists
• Discussion topics
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We are Shaping the Future of Rail in Europe!
Single European Railway Area (SERA)
safe :: connected :: affordable
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