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The Amendments To The Railway Law

Original Language Title: Grozījumi Dzelzceļa likumā

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The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law on the amendments to the railway to make Railway Act (the Saeima of the Republic of Latvia and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1998, no. 9; 1999, no. 5, 23; 2001, nr. 1; 2003, 6, 10, 23; 2004, nr. 8. No; 2005; 2006 21 no, no 1) the following amendments: 1. Add to article 1 to 22 the following: "22) security management system — a set of organisational arrangements enforced by the infrastructure manager and the railway carrier to guarantee the safe management of its operations. " 2. in article 5: turn off the first part of paragraph 2, the word "goods"; Add to article 2.1 part as follows: "(21) the railway infrastructure manager determines the managed use of railway infrastructure for the order in the railway sector regulatory requirements and regulations of the railway infrastructure, equipment and features." replace the third paragraph, the words "conditions of use" with the words "in terms of use and conditions" of the closure. 3. To supplement the law with article 12.1, as follows: "article 12.1. Of the rail infrastructure services (1) of the rail infrastructure railway infrastructure provided basic services, as well as other services related to access to the railway infrastructure. (2) the use of the railway infrastructure, basic services include: 1) the handling of requests for infrastructure capacity; 2) the right to utilise the infrastructure capacity; 3) into the existing crossings and track use; 4) train control, which includes the Organization of train movements and coordination, alarm systems, communication, coordination of train movements, as well as information on train movement; 5) with the information required to implement or provide the services, which divided into the railway infrastructure capacity. (3) access to the railway infrastructure includes the right of access to such facilities and the railway infrastructure services: 1) electrical equipment for use in the abstraction of the traction current, where available; 2) refuelling facilities; 3 passenger stations, their) buildings and equipment; 4) freight yard; 5) sorting the parks; 6) train forming equipment; 7) special interest links; 8) maintenance and other technical facilities. (4) the railway infrastructure manager may also provide the following additional services: 1 traction power supply); 2) passenger train warming up; 3) supply of fuel, shunting works and with the equipment referred to in the third subparagraph of the provision of services provided; 4) order contracts for the transport of dangerous goods control and for their help in driving the train is not the standard; 5) rolling stock technical inspection; 6) access to the telecommunications network; 7) additional information; 8) as well as the other services. " 4. Express article 33, third subparagraph of paragraph 3 as follows: "3) investigate railway accidents;". to make the fourth part of paragraph 5 by the following: "5) check the merchant of the members of the Commission and the responsible person that performs merchant specialist rail knowledge test, compliance with the requirements of the qualification." 5. Express article 33.1 as follows: "article 20.6. Transport accident and incident investigation Bureau (1) heavy rail accident investigation activities organized, conducted and controlled by a Transport accident and incident investigation Bureau of the Ministry of transport, under the supervision of an existing direct public administration institution. (2) Transport of accident and incident investigation Bureau institutional, legal, and their decision-making is independent of infrastructure managers, railway carriers and railway technical operation control and supervisory bodies as well as of the institutions responsible for rail infrastructure charging and collection, the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity or of the implementation of the public administration in the field of rail transport, and of the persons whose interests may be in conflict with the Transport accident and incident investigation Bureau. (3) a railway accident investigation, accident and incident investigation Bureau investigators have the right to: 1) free access to the crash site, the crash involved rolling stock to the relevant railway infrastructure, the ground control and signalling installations; 2) immediately initiate direct evidence, the rolling stock and the wreck debris, rail infrastructure installations or components for examination or analysis of the collection; 3) access to rolling stock data logging devices, voice recording devices, signalling and traffic management system registration equipment and use it; 4) look at the victims ' mortal remains and the victim survey results; 5) look at the rail crash in rail professional, other persons involved in the accident, as well as the questioning of witnesses and the survey results and the evidence; 6) questioned the crash involved the rail professionals, other persons involved in the accident, as well as witnesses; 7) to access the national railway technical inspection, railway infrastructure managers and participating carriers emergency information and documentation; 8) determine when the rolling stock, its parts or debris, wrecks, cargoes and other evidence can be removed from the scene, as well as destroy the law prescribed; 9) within their competence to make laws and certain other transactions. " 6. Add to article 34 of the tenth part as follows: "(10) is valid in Latvia, other Member State of the European Union issued license." 7. Article 35 be expressed as follows: "article 35. Security certificate (1) for the right of access to public-use railway infrastructure and guarantee safe delivery of services in appropriate stages of infrastructure, carrier before the commencement of the carriage must receive a security certificate, which shall be composed of (A) and (B) of part. (2) a safety certificate part A national railway technical inspectorate or a Member State of the European Union the authority issued by the carrier, which has created and maintains the security management system. (3) a safety certificate part B national railway technical inspection issued to carriers that comply with the technical requirements in the field of operational and safety requirements in relation to staff, rolling stock and the internal organisation of the company. (4) the order in which the issue, suspend or revoke the security certificate part A and part B, as well as the issuance, suspension and cancellation criteria are established by the Cabinet of Ministers. " 8. Replace article 40 1.1 subparagraph, in the second sentence the words "serious rail accident investigation body immediately assessed the" with the words "Transport accident and incident investigation Bureau immediately appreciated". 9. Article 43: complement the second part of the third sentence as follows: "Cabinet of Ministers rules issued for each railway technical specifications for interoperability for the application."; off in the third paragraph, the words "shall take a decision on the inclusion in the trans-European high-speed or conventional rail system and". 10. transitional provisions: exclude paragraph 10; Replace paragraph 13, the words "with the term" company "with the words" With the terms "company" and "economic operator"; turn 18; transitional provisions be supplemented with 19, 20, 21 and 22 as follows: "19. Article 35 of this law, the new version shall enter into force on January 1, 2008. Cabinet 1 January 2008 issue of article 35 of this law in the fourth paragraph (new version) these provisions. 20. Security certificates, issued to the transitional provisions of the Act referred to in paragraph 19 of the amendment's entry into force, shall be valid until the expiry of the period specified therein. 21. The Cabinet of Ministers to the 2007 November issue 1 article 43 of this law as provided for in the third subparagraph on the European railway system interoperability. Up to the date of entry into force of the relevant provisions, but not longer than until 1 November 2007 shall be applicable to the Cabinet on 19 December 2006, Regulation No 1025 of the "provisions on the system of the European railway interoperability ', in so far as they do not conflict with this Act. 22. This law, the new version of article 33.1 and amendment article 40 of this law in part 1 shall enter into force on 1 July 2007. " 11. Add to the informative reference to European Union directive to point 9 and 10 by the following: "9) the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004, Directive 2004/50/EC, amending Council Directive 96/48/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system and Directive 2001/16/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European conventional rail system; 10) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004, Directive 2004/51/EC amending Council Directive 91/440/EEC on the development of the community's railways. "
The Parliament adopted the law of 24 May 2007. The President of the Parliament instead of the President i. Emsis, Riga, 12 June 2007 in