Decision 2002/731/EC is hereby repealed. Its provisions shall however continue to apply in relation to the maintenance of projects authorised in accordance with the TSI annexed to that Decision and to projects for a new line and for the renewal or upgrading of an existing line which are at an advanced stage of development or the subject of a contract in course of performance at the date of notification of the present Decision.

Member States shall notify an exhaustive list of the sub-systems and interoperability constituents to which the provisions of Decision 2002/731/EC continue to apply to the Commission not later than six months after the date on which the present Decision becomes applicable.