Annexes to COM(1994)107 - Interoperability of the European high speed train network - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(1994)107 - Interoperability of the European high speed train network. |
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| document | COM(1994)107  |
| date | July 23, 1996 |
THE TRANS-EUROPEAN HIGH-SPEED RAIL SYSTEM
1. Infrastructure
(a) The infrastructure of the trans-European high-speed rail system shall be that on the lines of the trans-European transport network identified in the framework of the guidelines referred to in Article 129c of the Treaty:
- those specially built for high-speed travel,
- those specially upgraded for high-speed travel.
They may include connecting lines, in particular junctions of new lines or lines upgraded for high speed with town centre stations located on them, on which speeds must take account of local conditions.
(b) High-speed lines shall comprise:
- specially built high-speed lines equipped for speeds generally equal to or greater than 250 km/h,
- specially upgraded high-speed lines equipped for speeds of the order of 200 km/h,
- specially upgraded high-speed lines which have special features as a result of topographical, relief or town-planning constraints, on which the speed must be adapted to each case.
2. Rolling stock
The high-speed advanced-technology trains shall be designed in such a way as to guarantee safe, uninterrupted travel:
- at a speed of at least 250 km/h on the lines specially built for high speed, while enabling speeds of over 300 km/h to be reached in appropriate circumstances;
- at a speed of the order of 200 km/h on existing lines which have been or are to be specially upgraded;
- at the highest possible speed on other lines.
3. Compatibility of infrastructure and rolling stock
High-speed train services presuppose excellent compatibility between the characteristics of the infrastructure and those of the rolling stock. Performance levels, safety, quality of service and cost depend upon that compatibility.
ANNEX II
SUBSYSTEMS
1. For the purposes of this Directive, the system constituting the trans-European high-speed rail system may be broken down into subsystems, as follows:
1.1. basically structural areas:
- infrastructures
- energy
- control and command and signalling
- rolling stock;
1.2. basically operational areas:
- maintenance
- environment
- operation
- users.
2. For each subsystem, the list of aspects relating to interoperability is indicated in the order given to the representative joint body for drawing up draft TSIs.
Under the provisions of Article 6 (1), this order shall be established in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 21 (2).
Where necessary, the list of aspects relating to interoperability indicated in the order is specified by the representative joint body in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 (3) (e).
3. Within the meaning of Article 5 (3) (b), the following are regarded as basic parameters for achieving interoperability:
BASIC PARAMETERS
- Minimum infrastructure gauges
- Minimum radius of curvature
- Track gauge
- Maximum track stressing
- Minimum platform length
- Platform height
- Power-supply voltage
- Catenary geometry
- ERTMS characteristics (1*)
- Axle loading
- Maximum train length
- Gauge of rolling stock
- Minimum braking characteristics
- Boundary electrical characteristics of rolling stock
- Boundary mechanical characteristics of rolling stock
- Operating characteristics linked to train safety
- Boundary characteristics linked to outside noise
- Boundary characteristics linked to outside vibrations
- Boundary characteristics linked to outside electromagnetic interference
- Boundary characteristics linked to inside noise
- Boundary characteristics linked to air conditioning
- Characteristics linked to the carriage of disabled persons.
(1*) European Rail Traffic Management System.
ANNEX III
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
1. General requirements
1.1. Safety
1.1.1. The design, construction or assembly, maintenance and monitoring of safety-critical components, and more particularly of the components involved in train movements must be such as to guarantee safety at the level corresponding to the aims laid down for the network, including those for specific degraded situations.
1.1.2. The parameters involved in the wheel/rail contact must meet the stability requirements needed in order to guarantee safe movement at the maximum authorized speed.
1.1.3. The components used must withstand any normal or exceptional stresses that have been specified during their period in service. The safety repercussions of any accidental failures must be limited by appropriate means.
1.1.4. The design of fixed installations and rolling stock and the choice of the materials used must be aimed at limiting the generation, propagation and effects of fire and smoke in the event of a fire.
1.1.5. Any devices intended to be handled by users must be so designed as not to impair their safety if used foreseeably in a manner not in accordance with the posted instructions.
1.2. Reliability and availability
The monitoring and maintenance of fixed or movable components that are involved in train movements must be organized, carried out and quantified in such a manner as to maintain their operation under the intended conditions.
1.3. Health
1.3.1. Materials likely, by virtue of the way they are used, to constitute a health hazard to those having access to them must not be used in trains and railway infrastructures.
1.3.2. Those materials must be selected, deployed and used in such a way as to restrict the emission of harmful and dangerous fumes or gases, particularly in the event of fire.
1.4. Environmental protection
1.4.1. The repercussions on the environment of the establishment and operation of the trans-European high-speed rail system must be assessed and taken into account at the design stage of the system in accordance with the Community provisions in force.
1.4.2. The materials used in the trains and infrastructures must prevent the emission of fumes or gases which are harmful and dangerous to the environment, particularly in the event of fire.
1.4.3. The rolling stock and energy-supply systems must be designed and manufactured in such a way as to be electromagnetically compatible with the installations, equipment and public or private networks with which they might interfere.
1.5. Technical compatibility
The technical characteristics of the infrastructures and fixed installations must be compatible with each other and with those of the trains to be used on the trans-European high-speed rail system.
If adherence to these characteristics proves difficult on certain sections of the network, temporary solutions, which ensure compatibility in the future, may be implemented.
2. Requirements specific to each subsystem
2.1. Infrastructures
2.1.1. Safety
Appropriate steps must be taken to prevent access to or undesirable intrusions into installations on lines travelled at high speed.
Steps must be taken to limit the dangers to which persons are exposed, particularly in stations through which trains pass at high speed.
Infrastructures to which the public has access must be designed and made in such a way as to limit any human health hazards (stability, fire, access, evacuation, platforms, etc.).
Appropriate provisions must be laid down to take account of the particular safety conditions in very long tunnels.
2.2. Energy
2.2.1. Safety
Operation of the energy-supply systems must not impair the safety either of high-speed trains or of persons (users, operating staff, trackside dwellers and third parties).
2.2.2. Environmental protection
The functioning of the energy-supply systems must not interfere with the environment beyond the specified limits.
2.2.3. Technical compatibility
The electricity supply systems used throughout the trans-European high-speed rail system must:
- enable trains to achieve the specified performance levels;
- be compatible with the collection devices fitted to the trains.
2.3. Control and command and signalling
2.3.1. Safety
The control and command and signalling installation and procedures used on the trans-European high-speed rail system must enable trains to travel with a level of safety which corresponds to the objectives set for the network.
2.3.2. Technical compatibility
All new high-speed infrastructures and all new high-speed rolling stock manufactured or developed after adoption of compatible control and command and signalling must be tailored to the use of those systems.
The control and command and signalling equipment installed within the train drivers' cabs must permit normal operation, under the specified conditions, throughout the trans-European high-speed rail system.
2.4. Rolling stock
2.4.1. Safety
The rolling-stock structures and those of the links between vehicles must be designed in such a way as to protect the passenger and driving compartments in the event of collision or derailment.
The electrical equipment must not impair the safety and functioning of the control and command and signalling installations.
The braking techniques and the stresses exerted must be compatible with the design of the tracks, engineering structures and signalling systems.
Steps must be taken to prevent access to electrically-live constituents in order not to endanger the safety of persons.
In the event of danger devices must enable passengers to inform the driver and accompanying staff to contact him.
The access doors must incorporate an opening and closing system which guarantees passenger safety.
Emergency exits must be provided and indicated.
Appropriate provisions must be laid down to take account of the particular safety conditions in very long tunnels.
An emergency lighting system having a sufficient intensity and duration is an absolute requirement on board trains.
Trains must be equipped with a public address system which provides a means of communication to the public from on-board staff and ground control.
2.4.2. Reliability and availability
The design of the vital equipment and the running, traction and braking equipment and also the control and command system must, in a specific degraded situation, be such as to enable the train to continue without adverse consequences for the equipment remaining in service.
2.4.3. Technical compatibility
The electrical equipment must be compatible with the operation of the control and command and signalling installations.
The characteristics of the current-collection devices must be such as to enable trains to travel under the energy-supply systems for the trans-European high-speed rail system.
The characteristics of the rolling stock must be such as to allow it to travel on any line on which it is expected to operate.
2.5. Maintenance
2.5.1. Health
The technical installations and the procedures used in the maintenance centres must not constitute a danger to human health.
2.5.2. Environmental protection
The technical installations and the procedures used in the maintenance centres must not exceed the permissible levels of nuisance with regard to the surrounding environment.
2.5.3. Technical compatibility
The maintenance installations on high-speed trains must be such as to enable safety, health and comfort operations to be carried out on all trains for which they have been designed.
2.6. Environment
2.6.1. Health
Operation of the trans-European high-speed rail system must remain within the statutory noise-nuisance limits.
2.6.2. Environmental protection
Operation of the trans-European high-speed rail system must not cause a level of ground vibrations which is unacceptable for activities and the immediate environment in the vicinity of the infrastructure and in a normal state of maintenance.
2.7. Operation
2.7.1. Safety
Alignment of the network operating rules and the qualifications of drivers and on-board staff must be such as to ensure safe international operation.
The operations and maintenance intervals, the training and qualifications of maintenance staff and the quality assurance system set up in the maintenance centres of the operators concerned must be such as to ensure a high level of safety.
2.7.2. Reliability and availability
The operation and maintenance periods, the training and qualifications of the maintenance staff and the quality assurance system set up by the operators concerned in the maintenance centres must be such as to ensure a high level of system reliability and availability.
2.7.3. Technical compatibility
The alignment of the operating rules of the networks and the qualifications of drivers, on-board staff and managers in charge of traffic must be such as to ensure operating efficiency on the trans-European high-speed rail system.
ANNEX IV
INTEROPERABILITY CONSTITUENTS
EC declaration - of conformity - of suitability for use
1. Interoperability constituents
The EC declaration applies to the interoperability constituents involved in the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail systems, as referred to in Article 3. These interoperability constituents may be:
1.1. multiple-use constituents
These are constituents that are not specific to the railway system and which may be used as such in other areas;
1.2. multiple-use constituents having specific characteristics
These are multiple-use constituents which are not, as such, specific to a railway system, but which must display specific performance levels when used for railway purposes;
1.3. specific constituents
These are constituents that are specific to railway applications.
2. Scope
The EC declaration covers:
- either the assessment by a notified body or bodies of the intrinsic conformity of an interoperability constituent, considered in isolation, to the technical specifications to be met;
- or the assessment/judgment by a notified body or bodies of the suitability for use of an interoperability constituent, considered within its railway environment and in particular in cases where the interfaces are involved, in relation to the technical specifications, particulary those of a functional nature, which are to be checked.
The assessment procedures implemented by the notified bodies at the design and production stages will draw upon the modules defined in Decision 93/465/EEC, in accordance with the conditions referred to in the TSIs.
3. Contents of the EC declaration
The EC declaration of conformity or of suitability for use, and the accompanying documents must be dated and signed.
That declaration must be written in the same language as the instructions and must contain the following:
- the Directive references;
- the name and address of the manufacturer or his authorized representative established within the Community (give trade name and full address and in the case of the authorized representative also give the trade name of the manufacturer or constructor);
- description of interoperability constituent (make, type, etc.);
- description of the procedure followed in order to declare conformity, suitability for use (Article 13);
- all of the relevant descriptions met by the interoperability constituent and in particular its conditions of use;
- name and address of notified body (bodies) involved in the procedure followed in respect of conformity or suitability for use and date of examination certificate together, where appropriate, with the duration and conditions of validity of the certificate;
- where appropriate, reference to the European specification;
- identification of signatory having received powers to engage the manufacturer or his authorized representative established within the Community.
ANNEX V
SUBSYSTEMS
EC DECLARATION OF VERIFICATION
The EC declaration of verification and the accompanying documents must be dated and signed.
That declaration must be written in the same language as the technical file and must contain the following:
- the Directive references;
- name and address of the contracting entity or its authorized representative established within the Community. (Give trade name and full address, and in the case of the authorized representative also give the trade name of the contracting entity);
- a brief description of the subsystem;
- name and address of the notified body which has conducted the EC inspection referred to in Article 18;
- the references of the documents contained in the technical file;
- all of the relevant temporary or final provisions to be complied with by the subsystems and in particular, where appropriate, any operating restrictions or conditions;
- if temporary: duration of validity of the EC declaration;
- identity of signatory.
ANNEX VI
SUBSYSTEMS
EC VERIFICATION
1. EC verification is the procedure whereby a notified body checks and certifies, at the request of a contracting entity or its authorized representative established within the Community, that a subsystem:
- complies with the Directive;
- complies with the other regulations deriving from the Treaty and may be put into operation.
2. The subsystem is checked at each of the following stages:
- overall design;
- structure of subsystem, including, in particular, civil-engineering activities, constituent assembly, overall adjustment;
- final testing of the subsystem.
3. The notified body responsible for EC verification draws up the certificate of conformity intended for the contracting entity or its authorized representative established within the Community, which in turn draws up the EC verification declaration intended for the supervisory authority in the Member State within which the subsystem is located and/or operates.
4. The technical record accompanying the verification statement must be made up as follows:
- for infrastructures: engineering-structure plans, approval records for excavations and reinforcement, testing and inspection reports on concrete;
- for the other subsystems: general and detailed drawings in line with execution, electrical and hydraulic diagrams, control-circuit diagrams, description of dat-processing and automatic systems, operating and maintenance manuals, etc.;
- list of interoperability constituents, as referred to in Article 3, incorporated into the subsystem;
- copies of the EC declarations of conformity or suitability for use with which said constituents must be provided in accordance with Article 13 of the Directive, accompanied where appropriate by the corresponding calculation notes and a copy of the records of the tests and examinations carried out by the notified bodies on the basis of the common technical specifications;
- certificate from the notified body responsible for EC verification, accompanied by corresponding calculation notes and countersigned by itself, stating that the project complies with this Directive and mentioning, where appropriate, reservations recorded during performance of the activities and not withdrawn; the certificate should also be accompanied by the inspection and audit reports drawn up in connection with the verification, as specified in points 5.3 and 5.4.
5. Monitoring
5.1. The aim of EC monitoring is to ensure that the obligations deriving from the technical record have been met during production of the subsystem.
5.2. The notified body responsible for checking production must have permanent access to building sites, production workshops, storage areas and, where appropriate, prefabrication or testing facilities and, more generally, to all premises which it considers necessary for its task. The contracting entity or its authorized representative within the Community must send it or have sent to it all the documents needed for that purpose and in particular the implementation plans and technical records concerning the subsystem.
5.3. The body notified responsible for checking implementation must periodically carry out audits in order to confirm compliance with the Directive. It must provide those responsible for implementation with an audit report. It may require to be present at certain stages of the building operations.
5.4. In addition, the notified body may pay unexpected visits to the worksite or to the production workshops. At the time of such visits the notified body may conduct complete or partial 'audits`. It must provide those responsible for implementation with an inspection report and, if appropriate, an audit report.
6. The complete record referred to in paragraph 4 must be lodged with the contracting entity or its authorized agent established within the Community in support of the certificate of conformity issued by the notified body responsible for checking the subsystem in working order. The record must be attached to the EC declaration of verification which the contracting entity sends to the supervisory authority in the Member State concerned.
A copy of the record must be kept by the contracting entity throughout the service life of the subsystem. It must be sent to any other Member States who so request.
7. Each body must periodically pass on relevant information concerning the following:
- requests for EC verification received;
- certificates of conformity issued;
- certificates of conformity refused.
8. The records and correspondence relating to the EC verification procedures must be written in an official language of the Member State in which the contracting entity or its authorized representative is established within the Community, or in a language accepted by the Community.
ANNEX VII
MINIMUM CRITERIA WHICH MUST BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY THE MEMBER STATES WHEN NOTIFYING BODIES
1. The body, its Director and the staff responsible for carrying out the checking operations may not become involved either directly or as authorized representatives in the design, manufacture, construction, marketing or maintenance of the interoperability constituents or subsystems or in their use. This does not exclude the possibility of an exchange of technical information between the manufacturer or constructor and that body.
2. The body and the staff responsible for inspection must carry out the checking operations with the greatest possible professional integrity and the greatest possible technical competence and must be free of any pressure and incentive, in particular of a financial type, which may affect their judgment or the results of their inspection, and in particular those generated by persons or groups of persons affected by the results of the checks.
3. That body must employ staff and possess the means required to perform adequately the technical and administrative tasks linked with the conducting of checks. It should also have access to the equipment needed for exceptional checks.
4. The staff responsible for the checks must possess:
- proper technical and vocational training;
- a satisfactory knowledge of the requirements relating to the checks that they carry out and sufficient practice in those checks;
- the ability to draw up the certificates, records and reports which constitute the formal record of the inspections conducted.
5. The independence of the staff responsible for inspections must be guaranteed. No official must be remunerated either on the basis of the number of inspections performed or of the results of those inspections.
6. The body must take out civil liability insurance unless that liability is covered by the State under national law or unless the inspections are carried out directly by that Member State.
7. The staff of that body are bound by professional secrecy with regard to everything they learn in the performance of their duties (with the exception of the competent administrative authorities in the State where they perform those activities) in pursuance of this Directive or any provision of national law implementing the Directive.