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Management team: on of the Rolling Stock and Control-Command and Signalling
CEO: Pierre Kadziola. Director of Testing, Inspection and Cer- subsystems of the TALGO AVRIL high-speed units manufactu-
tification Entities: Jean-Marc Dupas. Director Spanish Branch: red by Patentes Talgo for their commissioning in Spain, both
Lucas Sánchez Ugalde. for fixed gauge and sliding gauge.
India’s first regional express train, whose Independent Safety
Activity: Training, certification, research. Assessment was carried out entirely by CERTIFER, was inau- guía de empresas
gurated.
CERTIFER was chosen as Contracting Authority ISA by Metro-
Main products and services: linx in the context of the Scarborough Subway Extension, pro-
Certification and Safety in Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Ener- ject which aims to lengthen the TTC’s Line 2 subway service
gy, Control-Command and Signalling, and Maintenance En- by nearly eight kilometres.
tities. CERTIFER is carrying out two missions for Siemens Mobility
Notified Body (NoBo) for all subsystems and their constituents on their new high-speed train, the Velaro MS: a DeBo cer-
(Interoperability Directive). tification for the rolling stock sub-system and a certification
Designated Body (DeBo) in: Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, test campaign in Belgium for the CCS and the rolling stock
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, sub-systems.
Germany, Austria Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and CERTIFER was chosen by Montpellier Méditerranée Métropo-
Finland le to carry out a safety diagnostic mission on lines 3 and 4 of
Independent Safety Assessment Body (ISA) recognised in all the tramway in operation.
Member States, Switzerland, Algeria, Turkey, India, United CERTIFER was awarded the NoBo assessment of the construc-
Arab Emirates, Australia, Austria and Scandinavia. tion project of the Intermodal Railway Terminal of the Guada-
Accredited Entity for the certification of Adif Technical Spe- lajara Marchamalo Port Centre of the Port of Tarragona, which
cifications. includes the subsystems of infrastructure, energy and control,
Independent Assessment Body (AsBo) accredited under Regu- command and signalling.
lation (EU) No 402/2013 and Recommendation 2011/217/UE. CERTIFER started to carry out ETCS System Compatibility
Testing entity for the technical compatibility between rolling (ESC) & Radio System Compatibility (RSC) testing and NoBo
stock and track. and DeBo certification of HLE18 locomotives operated by
Certification entity for the Entities in Charge of Maintenance SNCB in France, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany.
(ECM) and workshops Commissioning of the new Stadler SRDe 112 vehicles in Sar-
Assessment body for Safety management systems. dinia (Italy), whose conformity assessment was carried out by
Entity for the voluntary verification. CERTIFER as an Independent Railway Organisation (IRO) to
Independent Cyber Security assessment. assess the conformity of the rolling stock and on-board con-
Management Systems Audits & Certification trol-command and signalling subsystems.
Talleres Robles contacted CERTIFER to certify 6 Toyota pick-
Top products: TRAINING, CERTIFICATION, RESEARCH: 1. up vehicles as auxiliary material vehicles in accordance with
ISO 17025 ACCREDITED LABORATORY FOR ROLLING the ETH MRA specification.
STOCK, ETCS/ERTMS ON-BOARD TESTING AND NON- FRAMAFER chosen CERTIFER to achieve the required cer-
DESTRUCTIVE TESTS. tification in order to run their on-track machines (OTMs) in
France.
Activities in the year: CERTIFER was selected by Critical software to perform the ISA,
At the end of 2023, CERTIFER continued to strengthen its NoBo and DeBo evaluation of the generic application of STM
expansion in Portugal with the appointment of a Portuguese CONVEL for Portugal, as well as the ISA, AsBo, DeBo evalua-
director at local level, with more than 20 years of experience tion of the specific application on three types of vehicles: 4700
in the railway sector and in particular in the fields of Safety locomotive, UMB/UME FLIRT and Euro6000 locomotive.
and RAMS. CERTIFER was selected by Transamo for leTEC to evaluate the
On the other hand, the Certifer Group continued its expansion project for the extension of the tramway line in Liège.
with the opening of new offices in the United Kingdom and CERTIFER was awarded by CAF the NoBo, DeBo and AsBo
plans to open offices in Canada and the United States. assessment of the Renfe MD S-480 Medium Distance UTs.
CERTIFER was chosen by the TMT EPC consortium comprised
Main achievements of CERTIFER in 2023: of Alstom and Electra to assess the urban arrangement and
CERTIFER completed the NoBo and DeBo Spain certificati- proceed to safety analysis for the Tel Aviv LRT system in Israel.

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