Channel Tunnel Safety Authority publishes annual report 2005

Channel Tunnel Safety Authority
Comité de Sécurité au Tunnel Sous la Manche

The Channel Tunnel Safety Authority (CTSA) has today published its Annual Report for the period from 1 April 2005 to 31 December 2005.

This is the 18th Annual Report to be published by the CTSA and its working groups. Key features include:

  • The continuing impact of European Directives on arrangements for safety in the Channel Tunnel;
  • The impact of staff reductions and organizational changes arising from  Eurotunnel’s DARE Project  (Delivering Actions to Revitalise Eurotunnel);
  • Advising the Intergovernmental Commission on Eurotunnel submissions, in particular in respect of the safety case for Europorte 2, a subsidiary company created by Eurotunnel S.A. to provide traction services through the Fixed Link.

The Channel Tunnel Safety Authority Annual Report 2005 is available from the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority – UK Secretariat, One Kemble Street, London WC2B 4AN.
Tel: 020 7282 2168/Fax: 020 7282 2041

Note to editors

  1. The Safety Authority is the bi-national body that advises the UK and French Intergovernmental Commission on all matters relating to safety in the operation of the Channel Tunnel Fixed Link. The CTSA has five members from the UK and five from France and is chaired in rotation between the two countries.  It is serviced by five Permanent Working Groups. 
  2. Copies of the report are available from the CTSA UK Secretariat

Public enquiries

Mr Terry Gates CTSA Secretariat, tel: 020 7282 2036, or visit http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1402.

Press enquiries

As above.

Secrétariat Général au Tunnel sous la Manche
22 rue du Général Foy — 75008 PARIS

Téléphone:  43.87.11.08                                           
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UK Secretariat,
Channel Tunnel Safety Authority
One Kemble Street
London, WC2B 4AN

Direct Line: 020 7282 2036
Switchboard: 020 7282 2000
Facsimile: 020 7282 2041

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