Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/387 of 9 March 2020 amending Regulations (EU) No 321/2013, (EU) No 1302/2014 and (EU) 2016/919 as regards the extension of the area of use and transition phases (Text with EEA relevance)

Regulation (EU) No 321/2013 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 3, point (d) is added as follows: ‘(d) when the area of use is extended in accordance with art. 54(3) of Directive (EU) 2016/797, provisions in Section 7.2.2.4 of the Annex to this Regulation shall apply;’ (2) the Annex is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation.

‘2 The TSI shall not apply to existing rolling stock of the rail system in the Union which is already placed in service on all or part of the network of any Member State on 1 January 2015, except when (a) it is subject to renewal or upgrading in accordance with Section 7.1.2 of the Annex to this Regulation; or (b) the area of use is extended in accordance with Article 54(3) of Directive (EU) 2016/797, in which case the provisions in Section 7.1.4 of the Annex to this Regulation shall apply.’;

‘2 The TSI shall not apply to existing “trackside control-command and signalling” and “on-board control-command and signalling” subsystems of the rail system already placed in service on all or part of any Member State’s railway network on the day this Regulation enters into force, except when (a) the subsystem is subject to renewal or upgrading in accordance with Section 7 of the Annex to this Regulation; or (b) the area of use is extended in accordance with Article 54(3) of Directive (EU) 2016/797, in which case the provisions of Section 7.4.2.4 of the Annex to this Regulation shall apply.’

1 Notifications of conformity assessment bodies for the purposes of Regulations (EU) No 321/2013, (EU) No 1302/2014 and (EU) 2016/919 shall remain valid on the basis of those Regulations, as amended by the present Regulation.

2 Conformity assessment bodies notified in accordance with Directive 2008/57/EC may issue ‘EC’ certificate of verification and ‘EC’ certificate of conformity or suitability for use of interoperability constituents in accordance with this Regulation as long as Directive 2008/57/EC applies in the Member State where they are established in accordance with Article 57(2) of Directive (EU) 2016/797 and until 15 June 2020 at the latest.

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