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The Railway Safety Directive requires the Member States to notify their national safety rules to the Commission and to provide accompanying legal information.
 
We evaluate that notified rules match the definition of safety rules, that they are correctly classified and that the legal information is complete and correct. This work reduces unnecessary rules and helps the users to identify the safety rules that are applicable to their operations.
 
Evaluated notifications are validated by the Commission and registered in the public database Notif-IT. We help the Commission administer this database.
 

 

 Actions in summary

 
In due course, the Agency will update the guidelines in line with the Commission's Notif-IT User Guide.
We have issued general guidelines for the Member States on rule notification:
On request we provide further assistance to the Member States concerning the notification of the rules in the Notif-IT.
 
We continuously evaluate each new notification and provide relevant conclusions to the Member States and the Commission in the Notif-IT system. The methodology for evaluations of the notifications emerged from the findings in the very first evaluation of all notifications in December 2006:
 
 

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  • Natalja Skačenko
    Project Officer
    +33 (0) 3 27 09 65 05
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