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Railway Safety Directive
DIRECTIVE 2004/49/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 29 April 2004 on safety on the Community's railways and amending Council Directive 95/18/EC on the licensing of railway undertakings and Directive 2001/14/EC on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infrastructure and safety certification (Railway Safety Directive) · European Union

In accordance with the legislation in force in the Member States and, where appropriate, in cooperation with the authorities responsible for the judicial inquiry, the investigators shall, as soon as possible, be given: access to the site of the accident or incident as well as to the rolling stock involved, the related infrastructure and traffic control and signalling installations; the right to an immediate listing of evidence and controlled removal of wreckage, infrastructure installations or components for examination or analysis purposes; access to and use of the contents of on-board recorders and equipment for recording of verbal messages and registration of the operation of the signalling and traffic control system; access to the results of examination of the bodies of victims; access to the results of examinations of the train staff and other railway staff involved in the accident or incident; the opportunity to question the railway staff involved and other witnesses; access to any relevant information or records held by the infrastructure manager, the railway undertakings involved and the safety authority.

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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.