Article 10

Council Directive 96/48/EC of 23 July 1996 on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system · European Union

1. Member States shall consider as complying with the essential requirements of this Directive applying to them those interoperability constituents which bear the EC declaration of conformity or suitability for use, the components of which are set out in Annex IV. 2. Compliance of an interoperability constituent with the essential requirements applying to it shall be established in relation to any relevant European specifications that may exist. 3. The references to European specifications shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 4. Member States shall publish the references to the national standards transposing the European standards. 5. In the absence of any European specifications and without prejudice to Article 20 (5), Member States shall inform the other Member States and the Commission of the standards and technical specifications in use in order to implement the essential requirements.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-29 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.