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Additional requirements for mutual recognition were included in the process:
Hazard Management and independent assessment of the correct application
and results of the CSM process performed by an Assessment Body. The pro-
cess has to be applied to any safety related change of the railway system in
a Member State, which is considered to be significant.
Due to the relative novelty of some aspects of the formal CSM process for
risk assessment, this CSM Regulation will have a gradual implementation.
From 19 July 2010, it applies:
- to all significant technical changes affecting vehicles as defined in Article
2(c) of Directive 2008/57/EC [3];
- to all significant changes concerning structural sub-systems, where re-
quired by Article 15(1) of Directive 2008/57/EC or by a TSI.
In order to give su
cient time to the concerned actors, where needed, to learn
and apply the new common approach as well as to gain experience from it,
the CSM Regulation remains voluntary with respect to the operational or
organisational changes until 1 July 2012.
For the purpose of providing further support and detailed presentation
on the CSM Regulation to all the actors from the European railway commu-
nity, in the period of mid-2009 until mid-2010, the Agency has organised a
series of CSM dissemination workshops. This dissemination exercise is also
considered as a part of the activity related to the fulfilment of the require-
ment in Article 9(3) of the CSM Regulation. It requests ERA to monitor and
collect feedback on the application of the CSM on risk assessment in order to
make recommendations to the Commission with a view to improving it. The
dissemination workshops were supported by a questionnaire, which was filled
in by the participants of the workshop in advance. The purpose was also to
allow the Agency to see, at an early stage, how the railway actors under-
stand the concepts defined in the CSM Regulation to adapt the presentation
to their needs and to collect feedback, ideas and suggestions how to improve
the CSM in the scope of its upcoming revision.
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Topics from the dissemination of the CSM on risk
assessment and evaluation
In the following sections there is a presentation of some questions, which
have been discussed during the CSM dissemination workshops, which took
place so far. It is to be paid attention that it is not possible to cover all the
questions, within the scope of one single paper. All topics, which have been
discussed during this series of dissemination meetings, are considered to be
equally important.
The gained inputs are going to be considered in the scope of the revision
of the CSM on risk assessment, the work on which is going to start at the
beginning of 2011. The report for the revision of the CSM on risk assessment
should be made by ERA and sent to the Commission by the end of 2011.
