15.12.2012 Official Journal of the European Union L 345/1 II (Non-legislative acts) DECISIONS COMMISSION DECISION of 14 November 2012 concerning the technical specification for interoperability relating to the ‘operation and traffic management’ subsystem of the rail system in the European Union and amending Decision 2007/756/EC (notified under document C(2012) 8075) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/757/EV) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, These TSIs were adopted respectively by Commission Decision 2008/231/EC (°), and Commission Decision 2011/314/EU (4). Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, (3)  On 5 September 2011, the Agency issued a recommen- dation on the merging of the TSI on operation and traffic management for conventional rail and the TSI on operation and traffic management for high-speed rail, the extension of the geographical scope of these TSIs and the transfer of details of the European vehicle number (EVN) to Commission Decision 2007/756/EC (°). Having regard to Directive 2008/57/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 on the inter- operability of the rail system within the Community (!), and in particular Article 6(1) thereof, Whereas: (4)  Implementation of the TSI set out in Annex I, and conformity with the relevant points of that TSI, should be determined in accordance with an implementation plan that each Member State is required to update for the lines for which it is responsible. (1) Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 881/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 establishing a European Railway Agency (Agency Regulation) (%) requires the European Railway Agency (the Agency) to ensure that the technical specifications for interoperability (TSIs) are adapted to technical progress, market trends and social requirements and to () propose to the Commission the amendments to the TSIs which it considers necessary. Rail traffic currently operates under existing national, bilateral, multinational or international agreements. It is important that those agreements do not hinder current and future progress towards interoperability. Therefore a procedure of notification of these agreements by Member States should set up. (2) By Decision C(2010) 2576 of 29 April 2010, the Commission gave the Agency a mandate to develop and review the technical specifications for interoperability with a view to extending their scope to the whole rail (6)  Railway vehicles are registered by the bodies that keep system in the Union. Under the terms of that mandate, the national vehicle registers pursuant to Decision the Agency was asked to merge and extend the scope of 2007/756/EC, based on Article 33 of Directive the high-speed TSI and the conventional rail TSI relating 2008/57EC. to the ‘Traffic Operation and Management’ subsystem. 84, 26.3.2008, p. 1. - ¢) O] L () O] L 191, 18.7.2008, p. 1. (9 O] L 144, 31.5.2011, p. 1. () O] L 164, 30.4.2004, p. 1. () OJ L 305, 23.11.2007, p. 30.