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Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Show full title
Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on safety on the Community's railways and amending Council Directive 95/18/EC on the licensing of railway undertakings and Directive 2001 /14/EC on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure and safety certification (Railway Safety Directive) (repealed)
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Article 6Common safety methods
1.A first set of CSMs, covering at least the methods described in paragraph 3(a), shall be adopted by the Commission, before...(1), in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(2). They shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
A second set of CSMs, covering the remaining part of the methods as described in paragraph 3, shall be adopted by the Commission before...(2), in accordance with the procedure referred 1 in Article 27(2). They shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2.Draft CSMs and draft revised CSMs shall be drawn up by the Agency under mandates which shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(2).
The draft CSMs shall be based on an examination of existing methods in the Member States.
3.The CSMs shall describe how the safety level, and the achievement of safety targets and compliance with other safety requirements, are assessed by elaborating and defining:
(a)risk evaluation and assessment methods,
(b)methods for assessing conformity with requirements in safety certificates and safety authorisations issued in accordance with Articles 10 and 11,
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(c)as far as they are not yet covered by TSIs, methods to check that the structural subsystems of the trans-European high-speed and conventional rail systems are operated and maintained in accordance with the relevant essential requirements.
4.The CSMs shall be revised at regular intervals, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(2), taking into account the experience gained from their application and the global development of railway safety and the obligations on Member States laid down in Article 4(1).
5.Member States shall make any necessary amendments to their national safety rules in the light of the adoption of CSMs and revisions to them.
(1)
Four years after the entry into force of this Directive.
(2)
Six years after the entry into force of this Directive.
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