Graduated from Faculty of Mathematics of Warsaw University in 2004, Aleksandra joined the Polish infrastructure manager PKP PLK. In 2005 she moved to the International Union of Railways (UIC) in Paris, where she was mainly responsible for the UIC Safety Database of railway accidents. After successful recruitment to the Agency in 2010, she continued working with safety-related data. For the last few years she deals with monitoring audits, risk assessment and ECM certification.

European regulation of the maintenance of vehicles: what is new?

The first step on certification of ECM was the regulation 445/2011 imposing a certificate to all ECMs maintaining freight wagons. After 7 years of implementation of this regulation, the majority of the railway stakeholders requested an extension of the certification to all ECMs. This resulted in the new regulation (EU) 2019/779.