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Dissemination of the Commission Regulation
(EC) No 352/2009/EC on Common Safety
Method on Risk Evaluation and Assessment
Maria Antova, Dragan Jovicic, and Thierry Breyne
European Railway Agency, Safety Unit, Safety Assessment Sector,
Rue Marc Lefrancq 120, F-59307 Valenciennes Cedex, France
{maria.antova, dragan.jovicic, thierry.breyne}@era.europa.eu
Abstract. In order to support the market opening across Europe,
the European Commission decided to define a common and har-
monised approach for managing the railway safety. To take this for-
ward, the EU Legislators have approved in April 2004 the railway
safety directive 2004/49/EC. This directive allocates amongst others
the task of defining a Common Safety Method (CSM) on risk evalu-
ation and assessment to the European Railway Agency (ERA). The
Regulation 352/2009/EC covering this CSM on risk assessment was
published in April 2009 in the EC o
cial journal. In order to sup-
port the railway actors in the implementation of this Regulation, as
well as in order to gain inputs for its upcoming revision, the Euro-
pean Railway Agency performed a series of dissemination workshops
for the CSM on risk assessment. The objective of this paper is to
summarise and highlight some points from the dissemination of the
Common Safety Method on risk assessment.
Keywords: EC, Regulation, Common Safety Method (CSM), Risk Assess-
ment, Dissemination, Questions, European Railway Agency (ERA).
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Introduction
The safety directive 2004/49/EC [1] in its Article 6(3)(a) requires the devel-
opment of a harmonised approach for risk assessment. This development led
to a Commission Regulation on a Common Safety Method on risk evaluation
and assessment (EC) N
◦
352/2009 [2] published in the Ocial Journal of the
European Union on 29th of April 2009. The risk assessment and risk man-
agement processes, which it describes, contain basically the following three
steps:
1. identification of hazards;
2. risk analysis and risk evaluation based on existing risk acceptance princi-
ples, identification of safety measures and resulting safety requirements;
3. demonstration of the system compliance with the identified safety re-
quirements.
