http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/545/article/17Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/545 of 4 April 2018 establishing practical arrangements for the railway vehicle authorisation and railway vehicle type authorisation process pursuant to Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/545Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/545 of 4 April 2018 establishing practical arrangements for the railway vehicle authorisation and railway vehicle type authorisation process pursuant to Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)2020-12-12King's Printer of Acts of Parliamenthttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02018R0545-20200616texttext/xmlen2020-06-16 CHAPTER 2 <Strong>PREPARATION OF THE APPLICATION</Strong> Identification of the rules including non-application of TSIs Article 17 1 Based on the choice of the authorisation case in accordance with Article 14 and the requirements capture set out in Article 13 the applicant shall identify all applicable rules, in particular the TSIs and national rules. The applicant shall also consult and take into account the list of TSI deficiencies that is published on the Agency website. In that case, the applicant shall identify the acceptable means of compliance issued by the Agency that is to be used in conjunction with the TSIs for the vehicle type authorisation and/or vehicle authorisation for the placing on the market process when establishing compliance with the TSIs. 2 The applicant shall identify any case which requires the non-application of TSIs and submit its application to the concerned Member States in accordance with the provisions of Article 7 of Directive (EU) 2016/797. When non-application of TSIs concerns vehicles with an area of use covering more than one Member State, the authorising entity and the concerned NSAs for the area of use of the vehicle have to coordinate with the applicant on the alternative measures to take in order to promote the final interoperability of the project. 3 When a new version of a TSI provides for transitional measures, the applicant may already select requirements from this new version of that TSI during the transitional period, if this new version explicitly allows it. 4 Where, pursuant to paragraph 3, requirements from a newer version of a TSI are selected the following shall apply: a the applicant may select the requirements to be applied from different versions of a TSI and shall: justify and document the consistency between the sets of requirements selected from different versions of a TSI to be applied; specify the partial selection of requirements from different versions of a TSI in the application for authorisation as required by Annex I; where there is a pre-engagement baseline and where relevant, the applicant shall request to the authorising entity an amendment or update of that pre-engagement baseline for the concerned TSI in accordance with the provisions in Article 24(4); b the authorising entity when assessing the application shall check the completeness of the TSI requirements proposed by the applicant; c the applicant shall not be required to submit a request for non-application of the TSI pursuant to Article 7 of Directive (EU) 2016/797 for those requirements. 5 Where this is provided for by the Member State legislation, the applicant may select requirements from different national rules in the same way as laid down in paragraph 3 for TSIs. 6 The applicant and the notified body or bodies may use the acceptable means of compliance referred to in Article 6(3) of Directive (EU) 2016/797 in the context of an EC verification of conformity, pending the adoption of the concerned TSIs. 7 The applicant and the designated body or bodies may use the acceptable national means of compliance referred to in Article 13(2) of Directive (EU) 2016/797 in the context of demonstrating compliance with national rules.