CHAPTER II

DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF SAFETY

Common safety targets
Article 7
1
The CSTs shall be developed, adopted and revised following the procedures laid down in this Article.
2
Draft CSTs and draft revised CSTs shall be drawn up by the Agency under mandates which shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(2).
3
The first set of draft CSTs shall be based on an examination of existing targets and safety performance in the Member States and shall ensure that the current safety performance of the rail system is not reduced in any Member State. They shall be adopted by the Commission, before... , in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(2), and shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
The second set of draft CSTs shall be based on the experiences gained from the first set of CSTs and their implementation. They shall reflect any priority areas where safety needs to be further improved. They shall be adopted by the Commission, before... , in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(2) and shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
All proposals for draft and revised CSTs shall reflect the obligations on Member States laid down in Article 4(1). Such proposals shall be accompanied by an assessment of the estimated costs and benefits, indicating their likely impact for all the operators and economic agents involved and their impact on the societal acceptance of risk. They shall contain a timetable for gradual implementation, where necessary, in particular to take account of the nature and extent of investment required to apply them. They shall analyse the possible impact on TSI for the subsystems and contain, where appropriate, consequential proposals for amendments to the TSI.
4
The CSTs shall define the safety levels that must at least be reached by different parts of the railway system and by the system as a whole in each Member State, expressed in risk acceptance criteria for:
a
individual risks relating to passengers, staff including the staff of contractors, level crossing users and others, and, without prejudice to existing national and international liability rules, individual risks relating to unauthorised persons on railway premises;
b
societal risks.
5
The CSTs shall be revised at regular intervals, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 27(2), taking into account the global development of railway safety.
6
Member States shall make any necessary amendments to their national safety rules in order to achieve at least the CSTs, and any revised CSTs, in accordance with the implementation timetables attached to them. They shall notify these rules to the Commission in accordance with Article 8(3).
Five years after entry into force of this Directive.
Seven years after entry into force of this Directive.