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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
4.6 What is a maintenance workshop?
Maintenance workshop is a mobile or fixed entity composed of staff, including those with
management responsibility, tools and facilities organised to deliver maintenance on vehicles, parts,
components or sub-assemblies of vehicles (Source: Regulation 445/2011/EU article 3(2)e).
A Maintenance workshop is an entity having a management, staff, tools and facilities necessary to
carry out maintenance operations on the vehicle itself or on parts and components of the vehicle.
Mobile teams, depending on a fixed structure where maintenance works are performed or being
self-supporting, and fulfilling the requirements of the definition of a maintenance workshop as
defined hereinbefore, are assimilated to maintenance workshops.
A maintenance Workshop is in charge, of the maintenance delivery function as described in the
Art.4(d) of the ECM Regulation.
4.7 What is A National Vehicle Register (NVR)?
As established in the Commission Decision 2007/756/EC of 9 November 2007 [11] and amended
by the Decision 2011/107/EU, where Member States authorise the placing in service of rolling
stock, they have to ensure that an identification code is assigned to each individual vehicle. This
code should then be entered in a national vehicle register (hereafter NVR). This register must be
accessible for consultation by authorised representatives from competent authorities and
stakeholders. The different national registers should be consistent as regards data contents and
data formatting. This requires their establishment on the basis of common operational and technical
specifications.
Section 2.2 of the mentioned Decision also describes the implementation of the European
global architecture for national vehicle registers (NVRs).
In addition, Article 3(2) of Decision 2011/107/EU mentions that the member states shall ensure
that, for the vehicles registered before the entry into force of this decision, the registered business
number of the entity in charge of maintenance is recorded in the national vehicle register.
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