Objective At present, the European Union (EU) has not issued environmental regulatory directives specifically targeting the rail transit industry. To address the regulatory control issues faced when exporting complex products such as railway rolling stocks to the EU, it is necessary to study the applicable provisions of relevant EU regulations and directives, clarify their control requirements, and formulate response strategies.

Method From the perspective of domestic railway rolling stocks manufacturing enterprises, the applicable EU regulations and directives and their control requirements are reviewed and elaborated, mainly including the REACH Regulation (registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals), POPs (persistent organic pollutants) Regulation, ODS (ozone-depleting substances) Regulation, F-Gas (fluorinated greenhouse gases) Regulation, and Waste Framework Directive. The obligations that domestic railway rolling stocks manufacturing enterprises must fulfill when exporting railway rolling stocks are analyzed, along with corresponding response strategies. A specific process for addressing the REACH Regulation in projects of exporting railway rolling stocks to the EU is developed, and countermeasures and recommendations for meeting EU regulatory control requirements are proposed.

Result & Conclusion  Certain EU environmental regulations and directives involve numerous obligations and relatively complex triggering conditions. Domestic railway rolling stocks manufacturing enterprises should establish corresponding processes to identify the relevant obligations and implement control measures. Before formulating control regulatory measures, it is recommended to screen the applicable controlled substances based on the scope of EU regulatory requirements, so as to reduce enterprise compliance costs within a controllable risk range. In terms of control approach, it is recommended that domestic railway rolling stocks manufacturing enterprises adopt a composite control method of 'test + declaration + supplementary supporting documentation'.