Chapter 3, Article 18 · TAF TSI

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Article 18Compliance assessment#

1.The Agency shall provide a web application enabling telematics stakeholders to automatically self-assess individual messages.The Agency shall publish a user manual describing the different functions of the web applications.

2.Each telematics stakeholder subject to reporting obligations pursuant to Article 17 shall self-assess the compliance of its telematics applications only in relation to the data shared using the web application referred to in paragraph 1 before the implementation deadlines set out in Article 16. Individual messages self-assessed shall comply with the testing procedure set out in point 1.6 of the Annex and Appendix D.1 thereto.

3.Where self-assessment results are positive, the web application referred to in paragraph 1 shall automatically perform all the following functions:

(a)issue an evidence-based declaration providing to the self-assessed telematics stakeholder and to the Agency a presumption of compliance of self-assessed messages and associated telematics applications with the provisions of this Regulation;

(b)compile the relevant information associated with this self-assessment as set out in point 1 of Appendix D.1 to the Annex;

(c)generate and publish a list of telematics applications which are presumed to be compliant.

4.Where a telematics application has received a positive compliance assessment delivered and published by the Agency before the date of entry into force of this Regulation, such an assessment shall remain valid unless changes are made to it.

5.Changes to a telematics application shall be self-assessed where such changes have an impact on any of the following matters:

(a)the data elements, data structure or sequence to be shared pursuant to Article 7(3);

(b)the implementation of a new or updated API or web UI;

(c)cybersecurity measures pursuant to Article 7(2).

6.In the case a justified alleged non-compliance of a telematics application used by a telematic stakeholder, or where there is justified doubt, the Agency shall, on its own initiative or upon request of the Commission, a Union body, a public sector body or a telematics stakeholder, evaluate the correctness of the self-assessment based on the relevant information compiled pursuant to paragraph 3(b) and in accordance with the testing procedure set out in Appendix D.2.

7.The Agency shall inform the requesting entity and the telematics stakeholder using the telematics applications evaluated of the result, of its evaluation that may be used for follow-up actions, including enforcement by a national safety authority as defined in Article 3, point (7), of Directive (EU) 2016/798, or other national authorities responsible for the implementation of this Regulation.

8.The Agency shall also evaluate the correctness of the self-assessment on the basis of the information compiled in accordance with paragraph 3(b) for projects of telematics applications where an application for Union financial support has been submitted.Upon request, the Agency may also perform such evaluation for projects not subject to Union financial support as a service pursuant to Article 64(2), point (d), and Article 80(2), point (c), of Regulation (EU) 2016/796.

9.The Agency shall set out, publish and apply the procedures and deadlines to evaluate the correctness of the self-assessment for the purposes of paragraphs 6, 7 and 8.

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access node
means access node as defined in Article 2, point (25), of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1926;
access to data
means the right to consult the data with or without control over it, distinctively from other rights and obligations relating to its use for non-commercial or commercial purposes;
API
means a set of functions, procedures, definitions and protocols for interoperable data sharing between telematics applications;
applicant
means applicant as defined in Article 3, point (19), of Directive 2012/34/EU;
attributing system
means the railway undertaking’s digital system that hosts the online catalogue of individual rail transport services and that enables distributors to check the availability of those services and make reservations;
consignment note
means a transport document referred to in Article 6 of Council Regulation No 11;
data
means a machine-readable representation of acts, facts or information and any compilation of such acts, facts or information intended to be shared in a harmonised and structured format;
data element
means a field, value, or attribute of the data shared, which is structured in a consistent manner with the overall protocol used for data sharing and carries essential information that contributes to the meaning and purpose of the data shared, enabling data sharing between systems, applications or organisations;
data holder
means a natural or legal person that has the right to use or an obligation to produce and make available data;
data quality
means the degree of fitness for use at which the characteristics of data satisfy the stated and implied level of accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness and uniqueness of datasets, and create actionable insights for other users under specified conditions.
data recipient
means a natural or legal person that has the right to access the data produced and made available by the data holder under specified access conditions for use;
data sharing
means the provision of data by a data holder to a data recipient for the purpose of the joint or individual use of such data, directly or through an intermediary, for example under open or commercial licences subject to a fee or free of charge;
direct rail transport service
means a rail transport service that may include intermediate commercial stops between its origin and destination but does not involve any transfer of passengers or freight between trains;
distributor
means an entity that, deriving from contractual provisions, has:
freight customer
means the entity that has issued the consignment information to the relevant freight railway undertaking and which may be a logistics service provider, an intermodal transport operator, a freight forwarder, a fleet manager of empty wagons, or where relevant the data holder, that has concluded a contract of carriage covering transport services for goods;
intermodal transport operator
means an entity that organises freight transport services connecting two or more freight terminals with more than one transport mode;
issuer
means an entity that has the legal and technical capacity, deriving from contractual provisions, to issue, for a retailer, a ticket on which the parties to the contract of carriage are indicated;
journey
means an end-to-end trip of a passenger or a load that can include multiple legs;
journey planner
means a search engine used to find an optimal journey based on defined criteria set out by its user;
meta station
means a group of stations within a functional urban area, including one or more urban nodes listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2024/1679, that may extend across multiple Member States and where distinct stations can be reached by connecting urban transport modes and urban transport services, whether scheduled or unscheduled;
metadata
means metadata as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854;
minimum connection time
means the minimum amount of time that is sufficient for a passenger to connect between the access nodes of two consecutive passenger transport services included in a journey;
multi-network process
means a process that is affected by the operation of a rail transport service across two or more networks managed by different infrastructure managers or operators of rail freight service facilities;
national access point
means a national access point within the meaning of Article 3 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1926;
offer
means the aggregated data established by a distributor combining applicable tariffs that include the rail product price due by the retailer to the distributor and which may vary from the price set out by the railway undertaking due to the application of automated pricing rules, discounts or other commercial conditions;
operator of rail freight service facility
means operators of service facilities as defined in Article 3, point (12), of Directive 2012/34/EU, that provide services necessary for operating a freight rail transport service and whose service facilities are listed in point (2), subpoints (b), (c), (d) and (g), of Annex II to Directive 2012/34/EU and are connected to the trans-European transport network as specified in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2024/1679, limited to the multimodal freight terminals identified pursuant to Article 36 of that Regulation;
passenger timetable
means the date and time of passenger rail transport services operated as a commercial service by a railway undertaking during a given time interval that are used in the context of rail ticketing and rail passenger travel information referred to in Section 4 of the Annex;
person with reduced mobility
means a person with disabilities and person with reduced mobility as defined in point 2.2 of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1300/2014 (‘PRM TSI’);
public arrival time
means the alighting time for passengers, that is the point in time when the doors of the train are opened at the destination platform or terminal and disembarkation is allowed for passengers;
public departure time
means the boarding time limit for passengers, that is the point in time when access to the train, platform or station is closed in preparation for departure and after which passengers are no longer allowed to board and that takes into account the time that may be required for the check-in of passengers, bicycles, or luggage;
public sector body
means public sector body as defined in Article 2, point (28), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854;
rail product
means a tailored service in relation to a passenger rail transport service linked to a tariff;
rail ticketing
means the process comprising at least one of the following for passenger rail transport services:
rail transport service
means a scheduled service for carriage by rail between a point of departure and a point of arrival and covers transport services for goods, passengers, luggage, bicycles or cars, and tailored transport arrangements, as well as passenger assistance including services for re-routing and journey continuation;
reference data
means a data set of standardised and interoperable single identifiers to be used as a basis for data sharing in a specific domain;
reservation
means a reservation as defined in Article 3, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782;
retailer
means an entity that:
shunting movement
means shunting movements as defined in Table 1 of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/773 (‘OPE TSI’);
station manager
means a station manager as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782;
tariff
means the aggregated data established by a railway undertaking, or, where relevant, by the data holder, that provides all relevant details of a tariff, including the rail transport service price due by a distributor to the railway undertaking and the associated attributes and conditions;
TCO
means an organisation empowered to inspect passenger tickets, including at platform access doors;
telematics stakeholder
means the following data holders or data recipients whose activities entail the use of telematics applications for passenger and freight services’:
ticket
means a ticket as defined in Article 3, point (7), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782;
Union bodies
means Union bodies as defined in Article 2, point (27), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854;
working timetable
means working timetable as defined in Article 3, point (28), of Directive 2012/34/EU that is used for capacity and traffic management as referred to in Section 2 of the Annex to this Regulation;
yielded price
means the price associated to a tariff resulting from the application of an algorithm based on variables, referred to as the yielding rule;