Examinations organised to assess train drivers’ competence in accordance with Article 25 of Directive 2007/59/EC shall meet the following criteria:
in case of examinations conducted by two or more persons, at least the person who is leading the examination shall be a recognised examiner in accordance with the provisions of this Decision;
where the examination concerns the practical part of train driving competences, the examiner shall be licensed as train driver and hold a complementary certificate authorising the use of infrastructure and the driving of rolling stock that is subject to the examination, or a similar type of line/rolling stock; when the examiner does not hold a valid certificate for the infrastructure/rolling stock of the examination, a driver holding the certificate for that infrastructure/rolling stock shall be present to the examination in accordance with Article 4(2)(e) of Directive 2007/59/EC;
examinations shall be performed in a transparent manner and shall have adequate duration in order to prove with sufficient documented evidence that all the relevant subjects of the Annexes to Directive 2007/59/EC are covered;
in cases where the examiner participating to the examination provided the training on the subject of examination to the train driver or candidate train driver, a second examiner, who was not involved in preparation training, will conduct the examination;
an examination shall be prepared with particular care in regard to the confidentiality of the questions foreseen during the examination.
In regard to new or newly equipped lines or newly introduced rolling stock a Member State may specify conditions under which a recognised examiner may perform examinations in derogation to Article 9.
The use of this derogation shall be strictly limited to the case in which no examiner holding a certificate already covering the new or newly equipped line or the new rolling stock is yet available.
The examiner shall fulfil all other requirements of Article 4(2)(c) in regard to the licence and to the certificate as provided in Articles 14 and 15 of Directive 2007/59/EC, and to the required period of professional practice.