| Author (Corporate) | European Commission |
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| Series Title | COM |
| Series Details | (2014) 187 final (27.03.14) |
| Publication Date | 27/03/2014 |
| Content Type | Policy-making |
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Directive 2000/9/EC relating to cableway installations designed to carry persons was adopted on 20 March 2000 and became applicable on 3 May 2002. The Directive ensures a high level of safety for cableway installations for users, workers and third parties. It sets out essential requirements with which cableway installations, their infrastructure, subsystems and safety components must comply in order to be safe. Directive 2000/9/EC is also an example of that Union harmonisation legislation ensuring the free movement in the EU single market, namely of subsystems and safety components for cableway installations. It harmonises the conditions for the placing on the market and putting into service of subsystems and safety components intended to be incorporated into cableway installations. Manufacturers must demonstrate that their subsystems or safety components have been designed and manufactured in compliance with the essential requirements, affix the CE marking and provide instructions for their incorporation into a cableway installation. Directive 2000/9/EC is based on Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter "the Treaty"). It is a total harmonisation Directive based on the “New Approach” principles, which requires manufacturers to ensure the compliance of their products with the mandatory performance and safety requirements provided for in the legislative instrument without however imposing specific technical solutions or specifications. Directive 2000/9/EC applies to cableway installations designed to carry persons. Traction by cable and the passenger transport function are the principal criteria determining the scope of the Directive. The main types of cableway installations covered by the Directive are funiculars, gondolas, detachable chair lifts, fixed-grip chair lifts, aerial tramways, funitels, combined installations (made of several cableway types, such as those of gondolas and chairlifts) and drag lifts. Cableway installations are defined as the whole on-site system, consisting of infrastructure, subsystems and safety components. Cableway installations and their infrastructure are directly affected by the characteristics of the region in which they are located, by the nature and physical features of the terrain in which they are installed, by their surroundings, by atmospheric and meteorological factors as well as by structures and obstacles that may be found in their vicinity either on the ground or in the air. Directive 2000/9/EC sets out harmonised essential requirements with which cableway installations must comply, while Member States remain competent to regulate other aspects such as land-use, regional planning and environmental protection. Safety components and subsystems are subject to the principle of the free movement of goods. Safety components bear the CE marking indicating conformity with the requirements of the Directive 2000/9/EC, including the conformity assessment procedures. The proposal intends to replace Directive 2000/9/EC by a Regulation, in line with the Commission’s simplification objectives. |
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| Source Link | http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM:2014:187:FIN |
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| Subject Categories | Business and Industry, Internal Markets |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
