11.12.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L 32713 (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1169/2010 of 10 December 2010 on a common safety method for assessing conformity with the requirements for obtaining a railway safety authorisation (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Directive 2004/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on safety on the Community’s railways and amending Council Directive 95/18/EC on the licensing of railway undertakings and Directive 2001/14/EC on the allocation of railway infrastructure capacity and the levying of charges for the use of railway infra- structure and safety certification (Railway Safety Directive) (1), and in particular Article 6(1) thereof, Having regard to Recommendation ERA/REC/SAF/09-2009 from the European Railway Agency, delivered to the Commission on 18 September 2009, on a common safety method (CSM) for conformity assessment, Whereas: (1) The purpose of the common safety method (CSM) to be established is to provide a framework for national safety authorities to harmonise their decision-making criteria across the Union, in accordance with Article 17(4) of Directive 2004/49/EC. It should enable national safety authorities to assess conformity with requirements in a uniform manner. (2)  The CSM should include all the harmonised requirements and assessment methods to enable national safety authorities to issue an infrastructure manager with a safety authorisation covering the adequacy of the safety management system in general and any network-specific authorisation. Furthermore, it is likely that the infra- structure manager will apply for the network-specific part of the authorisation at the same time as it applies for a general authorisation based on its safety management system. () O] L 164, 30.4.2004, p. 44. (3)  National safety authorities assess the ability of an infra- structure manager to comply with all the requirements required to operate in general and on the specific network for which it is seeking an authorisation by assessing its safety management system at global level. (4)  Each national safety authority needs to put in place arrangements to examine whether the results outlined in the application for a safety authorisation are being delivered in operation after the award of the authori- sation and whether all the necessary requirements are complied with on a continuous basis, as required by Article 16(2)(f) and Article 17(2) of Directive 2004/49/EC. This therefore requires the development of a post-award supervision regime based on key funda- mental principles in order to ensure a harmonised approach by national safety authorities in each Member State. (5)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee referred to in Article 27(1) of Directive 2004/49/EC, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Subject-matter This Regulation establishes a common safety method (CSM) for assessing conformity with requirements for obtaining safety authorisation as referred to in Article 6(3)(b) of Directive 2004/49/EC. The CSM includes: (a) a procedure and criteria for assessing applications by infra- structure managers for safety authorisations as referred to in Article 11(1)(a) and (b) of Directive 2004/49/EC, as set out in Annex I and II to this Regulation;