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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
11.5 What does the schema “Schema chosen to award ECM certificates
in each member state” in ERADIS mean?
According to the Article 10.1 of the Commission Regulation (EU) No 445/2011 of 10 May 2011, the
Member States shall choose between accreditation or recognition or shall nominate the NSA as
certification body.
For recognition, when applying the article 5(2) of the Regulation 765/2008, the Member State shall
provide evidences to the Commission and the other Member States on equivalence with the ECM
accreditation scheme.
Therefore there are different schemas to be chosen by each Member State:
“Accreditation”: it means accredited certification bodies will be able to perform the ECM
certification.
“Recognition”: certification bodies recognised by the member state will be able to perform
the ECM certification.
NSA as certification body: the NSA designated by the member state as certification body
will be able to perform the ECM certification
The following link to the database ERADIS provides the choice of the different Member States:
http://eradis.era.europa.eu/safety_docs/ecm/schema/search_results.aspx
The applicant ECM is free to choose its certification body (Article 6(1) of ECM Regulation). The
ECM can contract body:
‣ with a certification accredited or recognised in any Member state;
‣ With the NSA of the Member State where the ECM is established only if the NSA has been
designated by its Member state to perform ECM certification
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