Signal Cert Certifying Body

The Signal Cert Certification Body (operating within Signal Cert Sp. z o.o.) has its own documented management system based on the PN-EN ISO/IEC 17065 standard, which addresses the requirements for bodies certifying products, processes, and services.

The Signal Cert Cert Certification Body's quality policy is to provide services of the highest quality while maintaining the principles of impartiality, independence, reliability, and confidentiality. The Signal Cert Cert Certification Body conducts its certification activities with diligence and ensures the highest quality of service by implementing the requirements contained in the policies defined for its activities. It identifies risks related to maintaining impartiality on an ongoing basis and declares that the Body's personnel operate in accordance with the highest standards, including good engineering practice.

The Signal Cert Certification Body certifies devices belonging to the control and energy subsystems in accordance with the Regulation of the Minister of Infrastructure and Development of 13 May 2014 on the admission to service of certain types of railway structures, devices and vehicles1 based on the following conformity assessment modules:

type conformity certificate
certificate of conformity to type based on technical tests necessary to establish conformity to type
certificate of conformity to type based on internal production control and supervised product testing (module C1²)
certificate of conformity to type based on internal production control and supervised product testing at random intervals (module C2)
certificate of conformity to type based on product verification (module F)

The detailed scope of certified devices, together with the conditions and requirements that these devices must meet in order to obtain "type" and "type-specific" certificates of conformity, are covered by the following certification programs:

for type:
1. JCPR-01 Program certyfikacji urządzeń dla oceny zgodności typu,
for „to type”:
2. JCPR-02 Program certyfikacji urządzeń dla oceny zgodności z typem (przeznaczony dla podmiotów niebędących producentem),
3. JCPR-03 Program certyfikacji urządzeń dla oceny zgodności z typem (przeznaczony dla producenta).

In addition, for the purpose of conducting independent security assessments (ISAs), the unit has implemented a voluntary certification program:

4. JCPR-04 Program certyfikacji bezpieczeństwa technicznego dla urządzeń sterowania w transporcie szynowym.

Certification requirements for individual products are included in certification programs and vary depending on the selected certification mode and conformity assessment modules.

The Signal Cert Certification Body verifies the structural subsystems: "Control - Trackside Equipment", "Energy" and "Infrastructure" within the scope of the SG module in accordance with the developed certification programs:

JCPR-05 Program weryfikacji WE według modułu SG - ocena przeprowadzana przez jednostkę notyfikowaną na zgodność z przepisami unijnymi,
JCPR-06 Program weryfikacji według modułu SG - ocena przeprowadzana przez jednostkę wyznaczoną na zgodność z przepisami krajowymi.

Certification programs are used to certify the following groups of devices:

station railway traffic control devices,
switching control devices, including the track brake,
line blocking devices,
level crossing traffic safety systems,
devices for detecting faults in railway vehicles during train running and wagon loading irregularities;
track and turnout vacancy control devices,
devices for adjusting or controlling movable railway turnout elements,
railway signals,
wired and wireless communication devices, including announcement, guard, and station-movement devices, excluding digital radio communication system (GSM-R) devices;
wireless communication devices, including train, shunting, road, and maintenance devices, excluding digital radio communication system (GSM-R) devices;
conversation recorders related to railway traffic management;
Track-vehicle interaction devices,
train control devices/automatic train control systems,
local television system for railway traffic management,
railway remote control system,
track choke,
choke cables,
high-speed circuit breaker,
contact line,
return line system.

The scope of accreditation of the Signal Cert Certification Body is defined as AC-194. Issued by the Polish Centre for Accreditation, this document confirms that we meet the requirements of the PN-EN ISO /IEC 17065:2013-03 standard.

Important information regarding the procedure for certification of railway traffic control devices for conformity to "type" and "type-specific" has been published in the information for customers „JCI-01 Informator dla klienta” and in „JCI-02 Informator dla klienta” in the field of technical safety certification, as well as informator dla klienta JCI-03 in the scope of verification of the subsystem carried out by the designated body and informator dla klienta JCI-04 in the scope of EC verification of the subsystem carried out by a notified body.

¹ Obwieszczenie Ministra Infrastruktury z dnia 7 października 2020 r. w sprawie ogłoszenia jednolitego tekstu rozporządzenia Ministra Infrastruktury i Rozwoju w sprawie dopuszczania do eksploatacji określonych rodzajów budowli, urządzeń i pojazdów kolejowych (Dz. U. 2020 poz. 1923).
² Moduły oceny zgodności opisano szczegółowo w decyzji nr 768/2008/WE