The Board of Appeal is responsible for appeals lodged against certain decisions of the Agency taken under its

NSAs are national bodies entrusted with the tasks regarding railway safety in order to ensure a unified safety regime for specialised cross-border

In order to ensure the harmonised implementation of ERTMS and interoperability at Union level, an ERTMS trackside approval is requested to check th

The NRBs is a structured group of organisations from the railway sector operating at the European Union level.

ERA closely cooperates with national safety authorities, national investigation bodies and representative bodies in the frame of networks and workg

The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) Mission Statement is: "Moving Europe towards a sustainable and safe railway system without frontiers."

The Agency works closely with the European Commission to foster the improvement of the interoperability and the safety of national networks.

An Entity in Charge of Maintenance (ECM) plays an important safety role in the European railway system by ensuring that the vehicles for which it i