Welcome to the reference document database (RDD)!
The European Union Agency for Railways makes available the Reference Document Database RDD in order to facilitate the access to the rules applied in conjunction with the authorisation of railway vehicles in the Member States of the European Union plus Norway.
For more information about the usage of this tool, please see the RDD User Manual.
The Reference Document:
Part 1 The Application Guide
The Reference Document Application Guide v.3.0 refers to the elements included in the Commission Decision 2011/155/EU, and any other information relevant for the management, understanding and use of the reference document. Version 3.0 is available in all European languages: BG, CS, DA, DE, EL, EN, ES, ET, FI, FR, HR, HU, IT, LT, LV, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, SV. The list of parameters published in the Commission Decision 2015/2299/EU was also implemented in RDD.
NB: To support the migration to the new list of parameters, the existing list of parameters from Annex III of the Reference Document Application Guide v2.0-22.07.2013 has been preserved.
Part 2 National Reference Documents (NRDs)
The information on national technical rules and classifications in RDD is currently under verification on a Member State by Member State basis.
Rules in RDD have been validated for the following states, displayed in order of publication:
| Norway |
Portugal |
Slovakia |
Greece |
| Finland |
Sweden |
Hungary |
Slovenia |
| United Kingdom |
Denmark |
Spain |
Luxembourg |
| Belgium |
Estonia |
Latvia |
Italy |
| Lithuania |
France |
Germany |
Romania |
| Switzerland |
The Netherlands |
Austria |
Bulgaria |
| Poland |
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For the following Member States, please refer to the PDF version available at the links below:
Part 3 National Legal Frameworks (NLFs)
The following MSs transposed the Directive (EU) 2016/797 and the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/545, establishing the practical arrangements for the railway vehicle authorisation and railway vehicle type authorisation process which defines, together with its application guide, the European process to be followed for vehicle authorisation. For this reason, the National Legal Framework published in RDD according to the Directive 2008/57/EC is no longer applicable and it is archived:
| Finland |
France |
Italy |
Slovenia |
The following National Legal Frameworks are published in RDD based on EU LF version 1.7:
| Luxembourg |
Spain |
Portugal |
Denmark |
| Greece |
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The following National Legal Frameworks are published in RDD based on EU LF version 1.6.1:
| Slovakia |
United Kingdom |
Poland |
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Though registration is not part of the authorisation process, some Member States have chosen to publish their registration flowchart.
To enable the users to consult a registration flowchart of a Member State, a PDF version is supplied under the following links:
For the following Member States, please refer to the PDF version (based on EU LF 1.6.1) available at the links below:
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