Cableways Impact Assessment Study - Final Report - saferail.nl

IA Study Concerning the Revision of the Cableways Directive
1.2 Study Objectives
Risk & Policy Analysts (RPA) has been contracted by DG Enterprise and Industry to
support the European Commission in preparing an impact assessment for various
options to revise the Cableways Directive. In order to prepare a robust impact
assessment, it is necessary to provide background data to inform estimates of the
potential scale of impacts (costs and benefits) associated with the proposed changes.
Against this background, the study has been divided into two parts, as outlined below.
Part 1: Assessment of the Cableway Sector, its Competitiveness and the Impact of
the Directive
The objectives of Part 1 of the study have been to:
• collect and present data on the cableway sector – covering Europe and world data
from 2000;
• assess the competitiveness of the cableway sector; and
• assess (qualitatively and quantitatively) the impact of the Directive on the
cableway sector.
Part 2: Assessment of the Different Policy Options
Sections 5 and 6 of this report provide an impact assessment of policy options to
address each of the ‘problem areas’ described in Section 4. In each of the ‘problem
areas’, three policy options have been considered:
• do nothing;
• clarify the issue in the Application Guide to the Directive (‘soft law’); and
• amend the Directive.
1.3 Structure of this Report
The remainder of this report has been organised as follows:
Section 2 provides the market situation in the cableways sector;
Section 3 provides a summary of the main impacts of the Directive;
Section 4 summarises consultees’ views on the revision of the Directive and an
overview of policy options that are subsequently assessed in the impact
assessment;
Section 5 provides the core of the impact assessment; and
Section 6 summarises the main impacts for each problem area and compares the
relevant policy options.
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