The Railways (Access to Training Services) Regulations 2006
These Regulations implement, in part, article 13 of Council Directive 2004/49/EC dated 29 April 2004 on safety on the Community’s railways (“the Safety Directive”). The effect of these regulations is to confer on railway undertakings applying for a safety certificate, infrastructure managers, and staff performing safety critical tasks a right of access to training services provided by other bodies. Access must be provided in a fair and non-discriminatory fashion and, where the services are provided by only one railway undertaking or infrastructure manager, the price for the use of those services must be reasonable and non-discriminatory. Relevant experience gained with another employer must be able to be taken into account by railway undertakings recruiting certain categories of staff and, for that purpose, employees are granted access to, and the right to obtain copies of, the relevant documentation (regulation 4).