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CORRIDOR RHINE-ALPINE – Annual Report 2016 Regulatory Authorities
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I. Members
The members of the group are the representatives of the National Safety Authorities of the five countries involved in RFC Rhine-Alpine. Since 2015, the NSA Corridor Group of RFC Rhine-Alpine has been extended to include the National Safety Authorities of the countries involved in RFC ScanMed (the former RFC 3).
The Netherlands: ILT (Dutch Environment and Transport Inspectorate)
Germany: EBA (Federal Railway Authority) Switzerland: BAV (Swiss Federal Office of Transport) Italy: ANSF (Italian Railway Safety Authority) Belgium: DVIS (Belgium Railway Safety Authority) Austria: BMVIT (Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology)
Denmark: Trafik- og Byggestyrelsen (Danish Transport and Construction Agency)
Norway: SJT (Norwegian Railway Authority)
Sweden: Transportstyrelsen (Swedish Transport Agency)
Guests: Representatives of the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA), ERTMS Users Group, Infrastructure Managers, UNIFE, MRCE and NB Rail. The Spanish NSA participated in the NSA Working Group of RFCs Rhine-Al- pine and ScanMed.
NSA Corridor Group of RFC Rhine-Alpine
II. Aim of the group
As stated in the Letter of Intent signed on 3 March 2006, the NSAs shall present to the Ministries and to the Euro- pean Coordinator for ERTMS a cooperation agreement with practical measures to streamline the processes for authorising the placing into service of ERTMS equipment on the corridor infrastructure and vehicles.
The aim has been clarified further in the Common Dec- laration of the Ministers of Transport of 26 May 2009. The NSAs were asked to develop a common process for authorising the placing into service of ERTMS equipment on the corridor infrastructure and vehicles. All relevant partners (EC/ERA, notified bodies, IMs and industry) are to be involved.
In order to achieve the target, a common and sound under- standing about the technical, operational and safety-related aspects of ERTMS has to be gained. Further, as a precon- dition, the different national requirements for authorising the placing into service have to be understood before a common approach can be agreed to achieve transparency and to streamline the authorisation process in order to gain the much desired synergy effects.