Commisson Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/772 of 16 May 2019 amending Regulation (EU) No 1300/2014 as regards inventory of assets with a view to identifying barriers to accessibility, providing information to users and monitoring and evaluating progress on accessibility (Text with EEA relevance.)

1 Within nine months after 16 June 2019, each Member State shall decide which entities are in charge of collecting, maintaining and exchanging the accessibility data.

2 Member States may ask the Commission for an extension of the time limit. This extension shall be exceptional, duly justified and limited in time. In particular it is considered to be justified if the data collection tool and the operating modes as set out in the Annex of this regulation are not made available and fully operational by the European Union Agency for Railways two months following its entry into force.

3 For each station, there shall be an entity responsible for exchanging the accessibility data.

4 Collection and conversion of data shall be finalised within 36 months following the entry into force of this Regulation.

5 Until the architecture for data exchange described in sections 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 of Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) No 454/2011 is completely operational, the exchange of the accessibility data shall consist of transfer of that data to the European Railway Stations Accessibility Database (ERSAD) hosted by the European Union Agency for Railways.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.