Published: 18.06.2021.
Updated: 28.03.2024.
Updated: 28.03.2024.
In conformity with Section 33, Paragraph three of the Railway Law, the The main functions of the State Railway Technical Inspectorate are:
- to control compliance with the requirements laid down in laws and other laws and regulations concerning railway operations and safety issues;
- to supervise the performance of safety and protection measures (including measures on prevention, reaction, and liquidation of consequences) in the movement of dangerous goods by rail;
- to supervise how participants in the rail system investigate and record railway traffic accidents;
- to examine railway infrastructure building designs and to take decisions in respect of them, issue building permits and control how participants in the construction of railway infrastructure comply with the requirements of this Law and other laws and regulations governing construction;
- to issue, renew, amend, and revoke single safety certificates;
- to issue, renew, amend, and revoke safety permits and to check how a recipient of the safety permit complies with the conditions included therein and the requirements of the laws and regulations in the field of rail transport;
- issue professional competence certificates in the regulated spheres in accordance with laws and regulations;
- to exchange information on its work and decision-making principles and practices with the relevant authorities of other European Union Member States, in particular within the network established by the European Union Agency for Railways;
- issue train driver's licences;
- keep the register of train drivers' licences;
- to issue, renew, amend, and revoke an authorisation for placing a vehicle on the market;
- provide information on obligations of the interested parties of the railway on the technical specification for interoperability;
- to recognise assessment bodies;
- to maintain records of safety indicators and to assess safety levels;
- to develop and publish annual safety plans describing measures for the achievement of common safety targets;
- to grant authorisations to place in service the trackside control-command and signalling, energy and infrastructure systems which form the European Union rail system;
- to participate in the process which allows the European Union Agency for Railways to issue, renew, amend, and revoke single safety;
- to supervise railway undertakings, shunters, and public-use railway infrastructure managers;
- to supervise how the entities in charge of maintenance and other participants in the rail system implement the necessary risk management measures;
- to assist the European Union Agency for Railways to supervise the development of railway safety at the European Union level;
- to issue, renew, amend, and revoke certificates which are granted to the entities in charge of maintenance;
- to monitor that interoperability constituents correspond to the essential requirements;
- to participate in the process which allows the European Union Agency for Railways to issue, renew, amend, and revoke authorisations for placing a vehicle and a type of vehicle on the market;
- to ascertain that the number has been allocated to a vehicle in accordance with the laws and regulations regarding the registration of rolling stock;
- to monitor that the laws and regulations in the field of railway safety and technical requirements correspond to the applicable legal acts of the European Union, and notify the European Union Agency for Railways and the European Commission of any laws and regulations and drafts thereof which provide for the national requirements.