The fleet-maintenance management function includes actions to ensure that the vehicle is taken out of service for maintenance and it is returned to operation after maintenance. This function, or part of it, may be entrusted to other contractors.
In order to obtain the certificate of the entity in charge of maintenance, the applicant shall ensure the safe operation of vehicles through the vehicle maintenance system and shall demonstrate that the functions of the system set up by him meet the requirements and assessment criteria with regard to the functions it decided to outsource (entrusted to another contractor). Applicant shall submit an application to the State Railway Technical Inspectorate in compliance with the requirements specified in Regulation No. 2019/779.
In order to obtain a certificate of conformity of maintenance functions only in relation to relevant maintenance function, the applicant shall submit an application to the State Railway Technical Inspectorate, observing the requirements specified in Regulation No. 2019/779 for each relevant maintenance function.