ERA Railway Terminology Collection
Last updated: 12 March 2026
The ERA Railway Terminology Collection gathers terms and abbreviations that are contained in the EU legal framework for railway, technical documents produced by bodies which are engaged in the development of important evolution in the railway system and other relevant glossaries.
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Starting with "D" (379)
| Term | Context | Document Type | Origin document | |
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RNE Glossary |
Glossary |
RNE Glossary - NS_CID_Glossary_2025 |
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SMS Safety Culture Human and Organisational Factor |
ISO |
ISO 9000:2015(en) Quality management systems — Fundamentals and vocabulary |
Latest release |
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RNE Glossary |
Glossary |
RNE Glossary - NS_CID_Glossary_2025 |
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SMS Safety Culture Human and Organisational Factor |
ISO |
ISO 22301:2019(en) Security and resilience — Business continuity management systems — Requirements |
Latest release |
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EU Policy |
Regulation |
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities |
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Infrastructure |
Regulation |
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/777 of 16 May 2019 on the common specifications for the register of railway infrastructure and repealing Implementing Decision 2014/880/EU |
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Infrastructure |
TSI |
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1299/2014 of 18 November 2014 on the technical specifications for interoperability relating to the ‘infrastructure’ subsystem of the rail system in the European Union |
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Single Market Mutual Recognition Conformity Assessment |
Regulation |
Regulation (EU) 2023/988 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023 on general product safety, amending Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive (EU) 2020/1828 of the European Parliament and the Council, and repealing Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Directive 87/357/EEC |
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International Standard |
ISO |
ISO/IEC 10026-1:1998(en) Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — Distributed Transaction Processing — Part 1: OSI TP Model |
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Withdrawn |
Application Guide |
TAP TSI Annex B.50 Timetable application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013 |
Latest release |
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Withdrawn |
Application Guide |
TAP TSI Annex B.51 Tariff application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013 |
Latest release |
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Withdrawn |
Application Guide |
TAP TSI Annex B.52 Reservation application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013 |
Latest release |
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Energy |
Regulation |
Regulation (EU) 2023/1804 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 September 2023 on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure, and repealing Directive 2014/94/EU |
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Withdrawn |
TSI |
Commission Regulation (EU) No 454/2011 of 5 May 2011 on the technical specification for interoperability relating to the subsystem ‘telematics applications for passenger services’ of the trans-European rail system |
Latest release |
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Single Market Mutual Recognition Conformity Assessment |
Decision |
Decision No 768/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 on a common framework for the marketing of products, and repealing Council Decision 93/465/EEC |
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ERTMS |
Directive |
Directive 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC |
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Single Market Mutual Recognition Conformity Assessment |
Regulation |
Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 setting out the requirements for accreditation and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93 |
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Withdrawn |
Application Guide |
TAP TSI Annex B.51 Tariff application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013 |
Latest release |
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Withdrawn |
Application Guide |
TAP TSI Annex B.52 Reservation application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013 |
Latest release |
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Withdrawn |
Application Guide |
TAP TSI Annex B.53 Direct Fulfilment application_guide - version 1.0 of 06/12/2013 |
Latest release |