DECISION n°274 of the Management Board of the European Union Agency for Railways adopting the policy on monitoring the performance and decision-making of National Safety Authorities (NSAs) for the years 2022 onwards and repealing Decisions n° 161, 188, 21

Management Board Decision n°161 regulated the policy on monitoring the performance of NSAs during the 1st audit cycle.  In order to initiate the 2nd audit cycle, the Board approved the update of the NSA monitoring tools for the 2nd audit cycle due to start in 2022.

The main changes were introduced to:

• update the NSA monitoring tools with the currently legal framework
• improve efficiency of the NSA monitoring programme by simplifying the various documents and facilitate their use by the auditors and the audited NSAs
• better align the 2 audit referential (Matrix and Compliance) regarding the technical requirements to foster consistency between audits

This decision was adopted in meeting 57 on 23 November 2021.