ANSFISA, the National Agency for Railway Safety and of Road and Motorway Infrastructures, has adopted the "Guidelines Guide for estimating, assessing and managing the risk associated with the transport of dangerous goods by rail" which have been developed in the context of a working group coordinated by the technical mission structure of the Ministry of Infrastructure and of Transport, with the participation of the Superior Council of Public Works and other MIT structures competent in rail transport. The version adopted takes into account also the comments received in the context of the consultation launched by ANSFISA.

The Agency specified that the guidelines are not binding but identify a methodology for calculating the risk levels of railway sections involved in the transport of dangerous goods, and propose limits of acceptability and attention to the quantitative risks (directly derived from the decree Ministerial Meeting of 28 October 2005 on tunnel safety railway standards) and qualitative (also reported in the CEI-EN 50126-1: 2018-04). ANSFISA has announced that the guidelines also provide guidance for implementing the process decision-making for the management of risks associated with the transport of dangerous goods in accordance with the criteria and principles outlined in the "Risk Management Framework for inland transport of dangerous goods", published in 2018 on the ERA website and developed in UNECE by the European Union Agency for Railways.

The Agency also specified that the document is in question in line with Commission Implementing Regulation No 402/2013 of 30 April 2013 on the common security methodology for the determination and assessment of risks, which in Annex I, point 2.1.4.(c) identifies the accurate risk estimation as one of the evaluation criteria that can be used for the purposes of the determination of the acceptability of the same risk and, at the point 2.5.2, provides that the acceptability of the estimated risks must be assessed on the basis of the criteria established by the Union legislation or notified national rules.