In order to make the procedures for issuing authorisations for the placing in service of trackside control-command and signalling subsystems more efficient and to harmonise those procedures at Union level, it is essential that, before any call for tenders relating to ERTMS trackside equipment, the Agency check that the technical solutions envisaged are fully compliant with the relevant TSIs and are therefore fully interoperable.
Chun go mbeidh na nósanna imeachta maidir le húdaruithe a eisiúint, chun fochórais taobh riain um rialú agus ceannas agus um chomharthaíocht a chur i seirbhís, níos éifeachtaí agus chun na nósanna imeachta sin a chomhchuibhiú ar leibhéal an Aontais, tá sé fíor-riachtanach, roimh aon ghlao ar thairiscintí a bhaineann le trealamh ERTMS taobh riain, go ndéanfaidh an Ghníomhaireacht a sheiceáil go bhfuil na réitigh theicniúla atá beartaithe i gcomhréir go hiomlán le STIanna agus go bhfuil siad idir-inoibritheach go hiomlán dá bharr sin.