Entity for Certification, Safety Evaluation and Inspection for railway system, Trams and Metros. CERTIFER Group, third certification entity worldwide, and first in Europe, has 24 international locations in 20 countries (Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom).

CEO: Pierre Kadziola. Director of Testing, Inspection and Certification Entities: Jean-Marc Dupas. Director Spanish Branch: Lucas Sánchez Ugalde.

-    Certification and Safety in Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Energy, Control-Command and Signalling, and Maintenance Entities.
-    Notified Body (NoBo) for all subsystems and their constituents (Interoperability Directive).
-    Designated Body (DeBo) in: Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Austria Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and Finland
-    Independent Safety Assessment Body (ISA) recognised in all Member States, Switzerland, Algeria, Turkey, India, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Austria and Scandinavia.
-    Accredited Entity for the certification of Adif Technical Specifications.
-    Independent Assessment Body (AsBo) accredited under Regulation (EU) No 402/2013 and Recommendation 2011/217/UE.
-    Testing entity for the technical compatibility between rolling stock and track.
-    Certification entity for the Entities in Charge of Maintenance (ECM) and workshops
-    Assessment body for Safety management systems.
-    Entity for the voluntary verification.
-    Independent Cyber Security assessment.
-    Management Systems Audits & Certification.

Top products: TRAINING, CERTIFICATION, RESEARCH: 1. ISO 17025 ACCREDITED LABORATORY FOR ROLLING STOCK, ETCS/ERTMS ON-BOARD TESTING AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTS.

At the end of 2023, CERTIFER continued to strengthen its expansion in Portugal with the appointment of a Portuguese director at local level, with more than 20 years of experience in the railway sector and in particular in the fields of Safety and RAMS.
On the other hand, the Certifer Group continued its expansion with the opening of new offices in the United Kingdom and plans to open offices in Canada and the United States.

Main achievements of CERTIFER in 2023:
-    CERTIFER completed the NoBo and DeBo Spain certification of the Rolling Stock and Control-Command and Signalling subsystems of the TALGO AVRIL high-speed units manufactured by Patentes Talgo for their commissioning in Spain, both for fixed gauge and sliding gauge.
-    India's first regional express train, whose Independent Safety Assessment was carried out entirely by CERTIFER, was inaugurated.
-    CERTIFER was chosen as Contracting Authority ISA by Metrolinx in the context of the Scarborough Subway Extension, project which aims to lengthen the TTC's Line 2 subway service by nearly eight kilometres.
-    CERTIFER is carrying out two missions for Siemens Mobility on their new high-speed train, the Velaro MS: a DeBo certification for the rolling stock sub-system and a certification test campaign in Belgium for the CCS and the rolling stock sub-systems.
-    CERTIFER was chosen by Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole to carry out a safety diagnostic mission on lines 3 and 4 of the tramway in operation.
-    CERTIFER was awarded the NoBo assessment of the construction project of the Intermodal Railway Terminal of the Guadalajara Marchamalo Port Centre of the Port of Tarragona, which includes the subsystems of infrastructure, energy and control, command and signalling.
-    CERTIFER started to carry out ETCS System Compatibility (ESC) & Radio System Compatibility (RSC) testing and NoBo and DeBo certification of HLE18 locomotives operated by SNCB in France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany.
-    Commissioning of the new Stadler SRDe 112 vehicles in Sardinia (Italy), whose conformity assessment was carried out by CERTIFER as an Independent Railway Organisation (IRO) to assess the conformity of the rolling stock and on-board control-command and signalling subsystems.
-    Talleres Robles contacted CERTIFER to certify 6 Toyota pick-up vehicles as auxiliary material vehicles in accordance with the ETH MRA specification.
-    FRAMAFER chosen CERTIFER to achieve the required certification in order to run their on-track machines (OTMs) in France.
-    CERTIFER was selected by Critical software to perform the ISA, NoBo and DeBo evaluation of the generic application of STM CONVEL for Portugal, as well as the ISA, AsBo, DeBo evaluation of the specific application on three types of vehicles: 4700 locomotive, UMB/UME FLIRT and Euro6000 locomotive.
-    CERTIFER was selected by Transamo for leTEC to evaluate the project for the extension of the tramway line in Liège.
-    CERTIFER was awarded by CAF the NoBo, DeBo and AsBo assessment of the Renfe MD S-480 Medium Distance UTs.
-    CERTIFER was chosen by the TMT EPC consortium comprised of Alstom and Electra to assess the urban arrangement and proceed to safety analysis for the Tel Aviv LRT system in Israel.
-    CERTIFER was awarded by CAF for the certification of NS DDNG Trains for operation in Sweden, Spain and the Netherlands.
-    CERTIFER was chosen by Alstom to achieve NoBo CCS, DeBo Belgium, DeBo Netherlands & DeBo Germany missions for Alpha Trains Group on the G2000 & G1206 locomotives.
-    CERTIFER was commissioned by Alstom Canada to carry out an ISA mission on the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) in Montréal.
-    CERTIFER was contracted by Vossloh for the NoBo, DeBo and AsBo assessment of their new Diesel-Electric locomotive DE 18 MV29001, equipped with the new MTU stage V engine.
-    CERTIFER was commissioned to assess the safety for the commissioning of the Mostaganem tramway.
-    CERTIFER was appointed by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) Singapore to perform an ISA mission on the Jurong Region Line in Singapore.
-    CERTIFER was awarded by CAF for the certification of SJ Regional Trains for the Rolling stock and CCS subsystems.
-    Completion of the intermediate verification of conformity of the construction project for the implementation of standard gauge on the Astigarraga-Irun section of the Basque Y.