RAILWAY CERTIFICATION LABORATORY
 The RINA Services S.p.A. Railway Certification Laboratory was set up in 2011 as a certification test and pre-test laboratory for products to be used in the railway field according to European Directive 2008/57/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed and conventional rail systems.
The RINA Railway Certification Laboratory is a dedicated centre for testing of European systems:
• EUROBALISE: (both Balise and Balise Transmission Module – BTM and Lineside Electronic Unit - LEU) in accordance with the UNISIG SUBSET-036, SUBSET-085 and SUBSET-116 specifications (related to verification of BTM electromagnetic susceptibility);
• EUROLOOP: in accordance with the UNISIG SUBSET-044 and SUBSET-103 specifications;
• ETCS: in accordance with the UNISIG SUBSET-026, SUBSET-076 and SUBSET-094 specifications;
• GSM-R: in accordance with the EIRENE FRS and SRS, UIC O-3001, UNISIG SUBSET-093, UIC O-2475, DB Systel IOT Test Specification for EIRENE Networks, ETSI EN 301 515 and ETSI EN 301 419-7 specifications. Type testing according to CENELEC EN 50125 and EN 50155.
 Since 2006, RINA has acquired extensive know-how in the EUROBALISE field, both at European level and by performing laboratory testing according to the UNISIG SUBSET-036 and SUBSET-085 specifications.
As concerns the ETCS laboratory (European Train Control System), RINA provides its own services to the European Railway Agency (ERA) for the revision and updating of the SUBSET-076 and SUBSET-094 specifications and for analysis of the System Requirement Specifications – SRS of the ETCS system (UNISIG SUBSET-026 V. 3.2.0) which will be published and included in the Technical Specifications for Interoperability – TSIs in 2012.
With regard to GSM-R equipment and networks, the RINA Railway Department has been carrying out tests and certification since 2004. At European level, it is the Notified Body which has issued the most EC Certificates of Conformity (about 30). RINA has worked with European Railway Agency (ERA), International Union of Railways (UIC), GSM-R Industry Group (IG), European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM) and Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) to identify the mandatory requirements for railway interoperability from among all the requirements contained in the EIRENE SRS 15.0 and FRS 7.0. RINA also participated in the European project at which the test specifications were defined for verification of the interoperability requirements of the GSM-R networks (DB Systel IOT Test Specification for EIRENE Networks).
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The RINA Services S.p.A. Railway Department is a body notified by the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport for the European Directive 2008/57/EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed and conventional rail systems. It is thus able to offer a complete service covering the entire EC Conformity Certification process, starting from document review, to testing in the field and in the laboratory, to the Quality Management System checks and ending with the issue of the EC Certificate of Conformity to the Technical Specifications for Rail Interoperability (TSI).
Moreover, the RINA Services S.p.A. Railway Department is recognised by the Italian National Railway Safety Agency (Agenzia Nazionale della Sicurezza Ferroviaria italiana [ANSF]) as Independent Safety Assessor. It can therefore offer full assistance relevant to the process to obtain authorisation to put all products and installations, related to the on board sub-system and the track-side sub-system, into service on the Italian railway network.
RINA Services S.p.A. has obtained accreditation, for the Railway Department, from ACCREDIA (Italian Accreditation Body) for the EN 45011 and ISO 17020 Standards related respectively to product certification in the railway sector and inspections in the railway sector. Thanks to this accreditation, for the products to be tested, RINA can offer a safety inspection service in compliance with the EN 50126, EN 50128 and EN 50129 Standards.
Thanks to its know-how acquired over the years and recognised internationally, RINA is in close contact with UNISIG (Union Industry of Signalling) companies and takes an active part in revising European specifications.
In order to correctly interpret European specifications, RINA also offers workshops on the various products subject to laboratory testing or to third party audits.
Over the years, RINA has carried out tests on products of leading Italian, European and global companies in the railway sector such as Alstom Ferroviaria, Ansaldo STS, Beijing HollySys Co. Ltd, Bombardier, Center Communication Systems, CSR Times Electric Co. Ltd, ECM, General Electric Transportation System, MerMec, NEC Portugal, Selex Elsag, Siemens, Sigma-Digitek.
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