1.Each railway undertaking, infrastructure manager and entity in charge of maintenance:
(a)shall be responsible for conducting the monitoring process set out in the Annex;
(b)shall ensure that risk control measures implemented by their contractors are also monitored in compliance with this Regulation. To this end, they shall apply the monitoring process set out in the Annex or require their contractors to apply this process through contractual arrangements.
2.The monitoring process shall contain the following activities:
(a)the definition of a strategy, priorities and plan(s) for monitoring;
(b)the collection and analysis of information;
(c)the drawing up of an action plan for instances of unacceptable non-compliance with requirements laid down in the management system;
(d)the implementation of the action plan, if such a plan is drawn up;
(e)the evaluation of the effectiveness of action plan measures, if such a plan is drawn up.