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Guide for the application of the Art 14 (a) of the Safety Directive and Commission Regulation (EU) No 445/2011
on a system of certification of entities in charge of maintenance for freight wagons – VERSION 1.0
Picture 3 : Example of a unit
consisting of a rake of
permanently connected two
elements, those elements
cannot be operated separately
4.3 What is an ECM?
After a vehicle is placed in service, an Entity in Charge of its maintenance has to be designated
and to be identified in the National Vehicle Register. An ECM may be, but not limited to, a Railway
Undertaking, an Infrastructure Manager or a keeper.
In accordance with the Railway Safety Directive and FOR FREIGHT WAGONS ONLY, the ECM
shall be certified in accordance with the regulation 445/2011, article 2(1).
4.4 Who can be an ECM?
An ECM may be, but not limited confirmed by the European Commission, a Railway Undertaking,
an Infrastructure Manager or a keeper.
The ECM is the body reguistered as such in the NVRs. There are no conditions of nationality to
become an ECM. An ECM established outside the EU or outside the contracting countries of OTIF
can provide maintenance to wagons used on the railway system of the EU or of the contracting
countries of OTIF . In that case the ECM has to be certified against the ECM Regulation or its
equivalent in OTIF rules.
4.5 How many ECMs can a vehicle have?
Article 33(2) of Directive 2008/57/EC provides that the NVR is to contain, among other compulsory
information, the identification of the owner of the vehicle and the entity in charge of maintenance.
Decision 2007/756/EC, amended by the Decision 2011/107/EU, establishes the requirements for
the information to be contained in the NVR and, for each vehicle, the data relative to the ECM
(and not several ECM) has to be compulsorily fulfilled. Then a vehicle can only have one ECM
assigned in the NVR
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