FINAL CONFERENCE

Afternoon Session

The TRANSFEU project in the

European Interoperability legislationAntoine Defossez, Project Officer – Interoperability

European Railway Agency

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The Transfeu project in the European Interoperability legislation

25th September 2012

The big picture

What is the goal of Interoperability?

To facilitate, improve and develop international rail transport services within the European Union and with third countries;

To contribute to the progressive creation of the internal market in equipment and services for the construction, renewal, upgrading and operation of the rail system within the Community;

And how to achieve that objective?

Through the definition of an optimal level of technical harmonisation in the TSIs

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The Interoperability Directive follows the « new approach »

But the Railway system is a bit more complex….

Such as toys, pressure vessels, machinery, etc…

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An intermediate layer, the TSIs

DirectiveEssential

requirements

Harmonised EN standards

(not referenced directly in the Directive)

Interop

Directive

TSIs

Harmonised EN standards

(can be referenced in the TSI)

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Conformity Assessment

At EU level:Compliance to the TSI

NoBo

Verification Checked by:

At national level:Compliance with (Notified ) National Technical Rules1. Open points2. Specific cases3. Safe Integration

DeBo, body designated by the National authorities

Authorisation granted by the NSA

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Transfeu outputs in this picture

2 examples

The fire behaviour of materials and components

Using Transfeu result for the pre-normative study on starting a Request for Standard for the work item in the series of EN 45545 with object:“Assessment of a Fire Spreading Protection System”

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The fire behaviour of materials and components

The current TSI allows several National Rules to be used

conformity with the requirement shall be deemed to be satisfied by the verification of conformity to the material fire safety requirements of the notified national rules from one of the following sets of standards:

— the British standards BS6853, GM/RT2120 issue 2 and AV/ST9002 issue 1;

— the French standards NF F 16-101:1988 and NF F 16-102/1992;

— the German standard DIN 5510-2:2003

— the Italian standards UNI CEI 11170-1:2005 and UNI CEI 11170-3:2005.

— the Polish standards PN-K-02511:2000 and PN-K-02502:1992.

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The fire behaviour of materials and components

The contribution of TRANSFEU to the finalization of EN 45545-2 will simplify

conformity with the requirement shall be deemed to be satisfied by the verification of conformity to the material fire safety requirements of the notified national rules from one of the following sets of standards:

— the British standards BS6853, GM/RT2120 issue 2 and AV/ST9002 issue 1;

— the French standards NF F 16-101:1988 and NF F 16-102/1992;

— the German standard DIN 5510-2:2003

— the Italian standards UNI CEI 11170-1:2005 and UNI CEI 11170-3:2005.

— the Polish standards PN-K-02511:2000 and PN-K-02502:1992.

EN 45545-2

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The assessment of a Fire Spreading Protection System

The current draft TSI is an “open point”

If FSPM are used instead of full cross section partitions, it shall be demonstrated that:

(1) They ensure that fire and smoke will not extend in dangerous concentrations over a length of more than 30m within the passenger/staff areas inside a unit, for at least 15 minutes after the start of a fire. The assessment of this parameter is an open point.

UNIFE is proposing ERA for a request for standard to close this point

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The assessment of a Fire Spreading Protection System

TRANSFEU can submit pre-normative studies according the accurate results of burning products in Railway vehicles.The pre-normative studies can propose :

a repeatable model able to reproduce a fire has been developed

next step is to assess the effect of the FSPM on such a fire, check if the temperature, visibility and toxicity of the combustion gases remain below the thresholds indicated in the ISO 13571

The request for standard included in the series of EN45545 shall be requested from the ERA to the CEN TC 256 Joint Working group.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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