Citation, commencement and extent

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Channel Tunnel (Safety) (Amendment) Order 2013.

(2) This Order comes into force on the date on which the regulation of the Intergovernmental Commission to amend the bi-national regulation of the IGC of 24 January 2007 on the safety of the Channel Fixed Link, done on 6th February 2013(5) (being a regulation drawn up under article 10(3)(e) of the Treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the French Republic concerning the construction and operation by private concessionaires of a Channel fixed link signed at Canterbury on 12th February 1986(6)) comes into force, as provided for in article 2 of that regulation.

(3) The Secretary of State shall give notice in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes of the date provided for in paragraph (2).

(4) Subject to paragraph (5), this Order does not extend to Northern Ireland.

(5) The following provisions extend to Northern Ireland-

(a)article 2(1), to the extent that it relates to article 2(2), 2(3) and 2(6),

(b)article 2(2),

(c)article 2(3), and

(d)article 2(6).

Amendment of the Channel Tunnel (Safety) Order 2007

2.-(1) The Channel Tunnel (Safety) (Order) 2007(7) is amended as follows.

(2) In article 1(2), omit "Subject to paragraph (3),", and, for "this", substitute "This".

(3) Omit article 1(3).

(4) In article 4(4)-

(a)in sub-paragraph (a), after "52(a) and (b)", insert ",55A, 55B", and

(b)in sub-paragraph (b)(i), for "authorisation of rolling stock", substitute "vehicle authorisation".

(5) In article 6(1), after "52(a) and (b)", insert ",55A, 55B".

(6) Omit article 9.

(7) After article 10 insert-

"Review

11.-(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time-

(a)carry out a review of this Order,

(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report, and

(c)publish the report.

(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on safety on the Community's railways and amending Council Directive 95/18/EC on the licensing of railway undertakings and Directive 2001/14/EC on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure and safety certification(8), and Directive 2008/57/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the rail system within the Community (Recast) (9), are implemented in other member States.

(3) The report must in particular-

(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by this Order,

(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4) The first report under this article must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which the Channel Tunnel (Safety) (Amendment) Order 2013 comes into force.

(5) Subsequent reports under this Order are to be published at intervals not exceeding five years."

(8) For the content of the Schedule, substitute the content of the Schedule to this Order.

Article 2(8)

SCHEDULERegulation of the Intergovernmental Commission on the safety of the Channel Fixed Link as amended

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Channel Tunnel (Safety) Order 2007 ("the principal Order"). The principal purpose of these amendments is to give effect to a bi-national regulation ("the new bi-national regulation") made by the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC). The new bi-national regulation in turn implements, in relation to the Channel Tunnel, some parts of Directive 2008/57/EC, including its amendments to Directive 2004/49EC, and other amendments made to Directive 2004/49/EC by Directives 2008/110/EC and 2009/149/EC. The new bi-national regulation amends an earlier regulation made by the IGC on 24th January 2007 ("the 2007 bi-national regulation").

The full citation of the above Directives is:

• Directive 2008/57 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the interoperability of the rail system with the Community (OJ No. L 191, 18.7.2008, p. 1);

• Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on safety on the Community's railways and amending Council Directive 95/18/EC on the licensing of railway undertakings and Directive 2001/14/EC on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for use of railway infrastructure and safety certification (OJ No. L 164, 30.4.2004, p. 44).

• Directive 2008/110/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2004/49/EC on safety on the Community's railways (Railway Safety Directive) (OJ No. L 345, 23.12.2008, p.62).

• Commission Directive 2009/149/EC amending Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards Common Safety Indicators and common methods to calculate accident costs (OJ No. L 313, 28.11.2009, p.65)

More specifically, in amending the 2007 bi-national regulation, the new bi-national regulation:

• places restrictions on the scope of the verifications required by the Safety Authority (the IGC) before it issues additional authorisations, where these are required (see article 64 of the amended 2007 bi-national regulation, as set out in the Schedule);

• requires the IGC to deal with applications for safety authorisations for railway undertakings within certain time limits (see articles 5(b) and 5A of the amended 2007 bi-national regulation, as set out in the Schedule);

• provides that railway vehicles already certified as complying fully with the Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs - harmonised technical rules on railways covering, among other things, the construction of railway vehicles) will no longer need further authorisation in order to be used within the Tunnel if and when the Tunnel itself becomes fully compliant with the TSIs, or when the trains run under the conditions specified in any corresponding TSIs (see article 62 of the amended 2007 bi-national regulation, as set out in the Schedule);

• provides for the authorisation of railway vehicles to cover types, as well as individual vehicles (see article 65 of the amended 2007 bi-national regulation, as set out in the Schedule);

• provides that no person may place a railway vehicle in service in the Tunnel unless an entity in charge of maintenance has been assigned to it, with the entity in charge of maintenance, in the case of a freight wagon, having to hold an "ECM certificate" (i.e. a certificate issued in accordance with Commission Regulation (EU) 445/2011 on a system of certification of entities in charge of maintenance for freight wagons and amending Regulation (EC) 653/2007 (OJ No. L122, 11.05.2011, p22) or a certificate or self-declaration recognised as equivalent to such a certificate); the entity in charge of maintenance must also set up a maintenance system to ensure the railway vehicle is in a safe state of running (see articles 55A and 55B of the amended 2007 bi-national regulation, as set out in the Schedule);

• revises the Common Safety Indicators (a harmonised way of measuring the safety performance of European railways) (see definition of common safety indicators in article 1 of the amended 2007 bi-national regulation, as set out in the Schedule);

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An impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sectors has been produced and is available from the Rail International and Safety Policy, Division, Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 4DR. It is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on the Legislation website (www.legislation.gov.uk). A transposition note is also annexed to that Memorandum.