Assessment of Technical Specifications for Interoperability on Projects Background Background The European Union has mandated moving towards interoperable railways to lower boundaries for cross-EU running of trains. European directives have been translated into UK law via the production of a Statutory Instrument, The Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2011 came into force on the 16th January 2012. The RIR provide for the use of EU Assessment and Authorisation processes on the conventional and high speed parts of UK infrastructure which are not specifically excluded from the RIR thus, the vast majority of the UK mainline railway is subject to the RIR and will increasingly fall under the European Standards know as Technical Standards for Intero

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