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Specified technical installations and equipment

Basic information

Specified technical installations and equipment are pressure, gas, electrical, lifting and transport installations and equipment as well as installations and equipment for the protection against the effects of atmospheric and static electricity and protection against the negative effects of reverse traction currents, which are subject to special supervision.

Legislation providing for specified technical installations and equipment subject to special supervision:

  • Act No. 266/1994 Coll., the Railways Act, as amended (provisions of Sections 47 and 48)
  • Decree No. 100/1995 Coll., laying down conditions for the operation, design and manufacture of specified technical installations and equipment and their specification (Regulations for Specified Technical Installations and Equipment)
  • Decree No. 16/2012 Sb., providing for the professional competence of persons driving railway vehicles and vehicles operated using other guided transport systems and of persons making inspections, examinations and tests of specified technical installations and equipment and amending Decree of the Ministry of Transport No. 101/1995 Coll., issuing the Regulations for the medical fitness and professional competence of persons involved in infrastructure management and transport by rail and using other guided transport systems, as amended.

 

The Rail Authority

  • approves the operation worthiness of specified technical installations and equipment by issuing a worthiness certificate (this does not apply to equipment which is an interoperability constituent or subsystem);
  • on the basis of a request from the Ministry of Transport, verifies the data regarding the competence to carry out technical inspections and tests of specified technical installations and equipment subject to special supervision stated in legal entities’ applications;
  • checks the professional competence of persons to carry out inspections, examinations and tests of specified technical installations and equipment subject to special supervision;
  • issues certificates of professional competence of persons to carry out inspections, examinations and tests of specified technical installations and equipment subject to special supervision;
  • decides on the withdrawal of certificates of professional competence of persons carrying out inspections, examinations and tests of specified technical installations and equipment subject to special supervision;
  • withholds the worthiness certificate of specified technical installations and equipment subject to special supervision in case of finding serious deficiencies of the specified technical installations and equipment, when their safe operation cannot be guaranteed, and decides on the unworthiness of specified technical installations and equipment.