Article 5
Regulation (EU) No 1303/2014 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 2, the reference to ‘Annex II to Directive 2008/57/EC’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Annex II to Directive (EU) 2016/797 (*) (*) Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2016 on the interoperability of the rail system within the European Union ( OJ L 138, 26.5.2016, p. 44 ).’; (2) Article 4 is amended as follows: (a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. With regard to specific cases listed in Section 7.3 of the Annex, the conditions to be met for the verification of the essential requirements set out in Annex III to Directive (EU) 2016/797 shall be those laid down in Section 7.3 of the Annex or by national rules in force in the Member State which authorises the placing in service of the fixed subsystems or which is part of the area of use of the vehicles covered by this Regulation.’; (b) point (c) of paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘(c) the bodies designated to carry out the conformity assessment and verification procedures for the national rules relating to the specific cases set out in point 7.3 of the Annex’; (3) Article 8 is amended as follows: (a) in paragraph 4, the reference to ‘Article 6 of Directive 2008/57/EC’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Article 5 of Directive (EU) 2016/797’; (b) in paragraph 5, the reference to ‘Directive 2008/57/EC’ is replaced by a reference to ‘Directive (EU) 2016/797’; (4) the Annex is amended in accordance with Annex V to this Regulation.