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In accordance with this, the ACRI Centre of Technical Standardization ensures the tasks in the sectors of rail standards falling within the competences of international and European standardization organizations CEN / TC 256 (European Committee for Standardization / Technical Committee 256 – Railway Applications), CENELEC / TC 9X (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization / Technical Committee 9X - Electrical and electronic applications for railways) and IEC / TC 9 (International Electrotechnical Commission / Technical Committee 9 - Electrical equipment and systems for railways). European standards are directly related to the interoperability of the European rail system, first and foremost to the Technical specifications for interoperability (TSI), issued by the European Union as forthright valid documents, binding for all EU member states. Being introduced to TSI, European standards become binding and that is why their incorporation into the Czech standardization system by way of projects, carried out by CTN ACRI, is of very high importance for industry as well as for forwarders, producers and infrastructure administrators. In the period from 1 January to mid-September 2011, the ACRI Centre of Technical Standardization was working on altogether 126 technical standardization projects. At the same time, the CTN ACRI in this period approved altogether 83 so-called planning sheets for the new or revised standardization projects, out of which 35 related to the electrotechnical sector and 48 to the sector of railway infrastructure and vehicles. These planning sheets, having the character of addenda to the agreement on handling the standardization tasks between the UNMZ and ACRI from 2009, represent the fundamental documents, on the basis of which the further respective standards´ projects have been or would be commenced this year.