COMMISSION DECISION (EU) 2018/2022

of 17 December 2018

drawing up a list of qualified experts for the Boards of Appeal of the European Union Agency for Railways

(notified under document C(2018) 8561)

(Only the English text is authentic)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/796 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the European Union Agency for Railways and repealing Regulation (EC) No 881/2004 (1), and in particular Article 55(3)(a) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EU) 2016/796 gives the European Union Agency for Railways (‘the Agency’) power to take individual decisions in the fields of vehicle authorisation, safety certification and ensuring harmonised implementation of European Railway Traffic Management System (‘ERTMS’) trackside. It also establishes Boards of Appeal before which such individual decisions of the Agency may be appealed.

(2) The Commission published a call for expressions of interest on 25 May 2018 on the website of the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport with a deadline for submission of the applications set at 30 June 2018. The Commission received applications from 46 candidates.

(3) The Commission assessed those applications against the criteria specified in the call for expressions of interest. Those included the criteria of eligibility, the criteria relating to technical and professional capacity, the knowledge requirements and the criteria for the disciplines subject to the Agency's decision, namely vehicle authorisation, single safety certification and ERTMS. In order to avoid potential conflicts of interest, candidates who had worked in the Agency in the previous two years were excluded from the selection procedure. Following the assessment of the applications, 40 candidates were selected as qualified experts for the Boards of Appeal and placed on the list,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The list of qualified experts for the Boards of Appeal of the Agency is set out in the Annex.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the chairperson of the Management Board of the European Union Agency for Railways.

Article 3

The Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport shall inform the candidates of the issue of the selection procedure.

Done at Brussels, 17 December 2018.

For the Commission

Violeta BULC

Member of the Commission

(1)

OJ L 138, 26.5.2016, p. 1

ANNEX

LIST OF QUALIFIED EXPERTS FOR THE BOARDS OF APPEAL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR RAILWAYS

Name

(in alphabetical order)

Mr Filip ADAMKIEWICZ

Mr Ulrik BERGMAN

Mr Alain BERTRAND

Mr Denis BIASIN

Mr Daniele BOZZOLO

Mr Angelo Carlo CHIAPPINI

Ms Monika CHRAPUSTA

Ms Katarzyna CHRUZIK

Ms Carole COUNE

Mr Gilles DALMAS

Mr Alessio GAGGELLI

Mr Johannes GRÄBER

Ms Marzena GRABOŃ-CHAŁUPCZAK

Mr Luca Maria GRANIERI

Mr Patrizio GRILLO

Mr Joaquim José Martins GUERRA

Mr Stefano GUIDI

Mr Przemysław ILCZUK

Mr Adam JABŁOŃSKI

Mr Marek JABŁOŃSKI

Mr Konstantinos KAPETANIDIS

Mr Philippe LALUC

Mr Dariusz LISZEWSKI

Ms Joanna MARCINKOWSKA

Mr Maciej MICHNEJ

Mr Juha PIIRONEN

Mr Witold PORANKIEWICZ

Mr Frank Bernhard PTOK

Ms Daniela RANDT

Mr Renato RE

Mr Gabriele RIDOLFI

Ms Friederike ROER

Ms Kaisa SAINIO

Mr Jean-Baptiste SIMONNET

Mr Andreas THOMASCH

Mr Ad TOET

Ms Une Elina TYYNILÄ

Mr Rob VAN DER BURG

Mr Marcel VERSLYPE

Mr Marcin ZALEWSKI