Network Certification Body
Accreditation and Certifications
NCB is accredited by UKAS to act as a Notified, Designated and Assessment Body to certify / assess rail project compliance.
- The table below shows the full set of capacities in which NCB acts, including where applicable, the accreditation details. In addition, our management systems are certified by BSI to ISO 9001:2015, ISO 45001:2018 and ISO 14001:2015.
- Evidence of our approval to act as a Notified Body in Europe is published on the European Commission website.
- The scope of our accreditations is each of the subsystems for Interoperability, plus, for CSM Assessment Body work, technical, organisational and operational changes.
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Capacity/Service |
Regulation under which service is provided and other applicable documents |
Accreditation / Certification organisation and standard |
Other Information |
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Notified Body (NoBo) |
Statutory Instrument No. 3066 The Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2011 (as amended), Directive (EU) 2016/797 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union, TSIs |
UKAS BS EN ISO / IEC 17065 |
Option A |
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Designated Body (DeBo) |
Statutory Instrument No. 3066 The Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2011 (as amended), Notified National Technical Rules |
UKAS BS EN ISO / IEC 17065 |
Option A |
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Assessment Body (AB) |
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 402/2013 of 30 April 2013 on the Common Safety Method (CSM) for risk evaluation and assessment, (as amended), |
UKAS BS EN ISO / IEC 17020 |
Type A |
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Independent Competent Persons |
Statutory Instrument No. 599 The Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006 (as amended) |
BSI ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 |
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Registration of Load Units (Containers and Swap Bodies) |
International Union of Railways (UIC) Leaflet 592 requirements and Euro norms (EN) & UIC leaflet-596-6 and IRS-50596-7 |
BSI ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 |
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Entities in Charge of Maintenance (ECM) Certification Body |
Commission Regulation 445/2011 of 10 May 2011 valid till June 2022, EU regulation 779/2019/EU |
UKAS BS EN ISO / IEC 17065 |
Option A |
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Plant Assessment Body |
RIS-1710-PLT Rail Industry Standard for Engineering Certification of Railborne Plant and the Assessment of Non-Railborne Plant, RIS-1702-PLT Rail Industry Standard for the Design of On-track Machines in Working and Travelling Modes RIS-1530-PLT Rail Industry Standard for Engineering Acceptance of On-Track Plant and Associated Equipment. |
UKAS BS EN ISO / IEC 17065 |
Option A |
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Network Rail Product Acceptance |
The applicable prevailing Network Rail company standards for product acceptance |
BSI ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 |
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Technical services including training services |
Related to the understanding of all railway regulations, standards and specifications |
BSI ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 |
Only training services are currently covered by the BSI scope |
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Design for Reliability Assessment |
Related to product acceptance and assessment of compliance with NR/L2/RSE/0005 |
BSI ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 |
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If you plan to commission NCB to act as your NoBo, DeBo, PAB, or ECM certification body, or already have done so, then you will need to read our scheme rules, which are available here.
Integrated Management System
Network Certification Body Limited (NCB) is certified by BSI to BS EN ISO 9001: 2015, BS EN ISO 14001:2015 & ISO 45001:2018 for the provision of conformity assessment and training services to the rail industry.
Our integrated management system (IMS) has built in checks and balances to demonstrate that project and client requirements are identified and met. These include project reviews, improvement tools, KPIs, feedback mechanisms and internal audits all fed through to our Board of Directors and reviewed regularly by the Certification Advisory Committee.
We have robust processes in place to keep up to date with changes to TSIs and standards through our involvement with the Department for Transport, ORR, RSSB, British, European and International standards bodies. Any changes are built into our assessment processes and communicated to NCB assessors. NCB supports development of the European conformity assessment industry through providing experts for the European NB Rail and UK NoBo forums.
Officially accredited by:
Officially certificated by:
(FS622448)
(EMS 649321)
(OHS 649322)