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Subject matter This Directive lays down provisions to ensure the development and improvement of the safety of the Union rail system and improved access to the market for rail transport services by:

(a) harmonising the regulatory structure in the Member States;

(b) defining responsibilities between the actors in the Union rail system;

(c) developing common safety targets (‘CSTs’) and common safety methods (‘CSMs’) with a view to gradually removing the need for national rules;

(d) setting out the principles for issuing, renewing, amending and restricting or revoking safety certificates and authorisations;

(e) requiring the establishment, for each Member State, of a national safety authority and an accident and incident investigating body; and (f) defining common principles for the management, regulation and supervision of railway safety.