National Safety Authority
The National Safety Authority has the following functions:
- Issues authorizations for the placing into service of the control-command and signaling subsystems on the railway line, of the energy and infrastructure subsystems constituting the railway system of the European Union following Ordinance No 57 of 2004 on the conditions and essential requirements for railway infrastructure and vehicles to achieve interoperability of the national railway system with the railway system within the European Union and check that they are operated and maintained following the required requirements.
- Checks the conformity of interoperability constituents with the essential requirements laid down in the relevant TSIs;
- Imposes restrictive conditions or prohibits the operation of the relevant subsystems or parts thereof in the cases provided for in the Railway Transport Act;
- Analyze the results of the investigation of railway accidents and, if necessary, take measures to improve the level of safety;
- Supervise the process of investigation of accidents and incidents referred to in Art. 77, par. 1;
- Develops and makes proposals to the Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications for the adoption of new or modification of existing national safety rules, exercising permanent control over their compliance;
- Maintaining a register of vehicles and exercise control over their registration and the accuracy and updating of the information recorded in the register;
- Issue, renew, update/amend, restrict the scope of or revoke the certificate of a person responsible for vehicle maintenance and the certificate of a person who performs vehicle maintenance functions;
- Issue, renew, amend or revoke a single safety certificate of a railway undertaking with a field of activity in the Republic of Bulgaria and has declared that the certification body is the Railway Administration Executive Agency and a safety certificate of an infrastructure manager and verify compliance with the requirements under which they are issued;
- Restrict or revoke safety certificates issued before 16 June 2019 and verify compliance with the requirements under which they were issued.
Rules for the operation of the Safety Council in railway transport