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NETWORK STATEMENT 2008. UPDATE• Planed surface: The strip of land on which thenatural soil topography has been modifiedand on which the railway line is built, whereits functional parts are and where its facilitiesare located.• Provisional Operating Permission: To carryout trials, tests or transfers, a railway vehicleshall have previously obtained ProvisionalOperating Permission granted by ADIF.• Rail Net Europe (RNE): Europeanorganisation with the purpose of quickly andefficiently allocating capacity for all types ofinternational rail traffic, in accordance withnational laws and regulations, and those ofthe European Union.• Railway Regulatory Committee: Independentregulating body which ensures freecompetition in the railway freight andpassenger industry.• Railway Undertaking (RU): A body whosemain activity consists in providing railwayfreight or passenger services, this companyhaving to be the one, in all case, thatprovides traction. The concept also includescompanies that only provide traction.• Railway Vehicle Maintenance Plan:Document that outlines the series ofmaintenance operations established foreach maintenance intervention to be carriedout on a railway vehicle and the frequencywith which these have to be carried outduring the useful life for maintaining, in thecondition required during its validation,the technical features which were requiredof it regarding safety, reliability, technicalcompatibility, healthiness, environmentalprotection and, where appropriate,interoperability, in accordance with that setforth in the TSA.• Railway vehicle permission: What ADIFgrants the manufacturer or railway vehicleowner that is to operate on the GeneralInterest Rail Network, once permission tostart operating has been obtained from theDGR.• Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot:Organization designed to carry outmaintenance interventions, and theoperations that go to form them, outlinedin the maintenance plan for each railwayvehicle, in accordance with that set forth inORDEN FOM/233/2006 of 3 st January.To carry out these functions, all maintenancedepots shall be approved by the DGR andshall also have a specific authorisation foreach type of maintenance intervention that isto be carried out and in accordance with thecharacteristics of the railway vehicle to bemaintained, granted by ADIF.• Rolling stock validation: Process forapproving rolling stock referred to in Art. 58of the LSF, which ensures this stock complieswith the applicable TSA.• Route: The itinerary covered by a train whenit is possible to follow various lines from anorigin to a destination.• Safety Certificate: Lays down the conditionsto be met by the RU providing railwayservices with respect to the management ofsafety for train operation and accompanyingstaff, on rolling stock and in any other areasestablished in due form.39GENERAL INFORMATION01