Cableways Impact Assessment Study - Final Report - saferail.nl

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Option 2 (Soft Law): Clarify the above issues in the Application Guide to the
Directive; and
Option 3 (Legislative): Amend the Directive.
Policy Option 1 - Baseline
Option 1 is the do nothing option and involves making no changes to the existing
situation, in particular:
the existing narrow definitions in the Directive will be retained and there will be
no clarification as regards installations serving both leisure and transport
purposes;
there will be no further guidance regarding the scope of the Cableways Directive
as opposed to the Lifts Directive and the Machinery Directive;
there will be no further clarification of the distinction between safety components
and subsystems, and between subsystems and infrastructure; and
no specific conformity assessment module for subsystems will be introduced in
the Directive.
Policy Option 2 – Soft Law
Option 2 involves clarifying a number of key issues in the Application Guide to the
Directive and may entail:
retaining the existing narrow legal definition of cableways but clarifying that a
broader and more general definition of cableway installations is available in
Recital 1 and clarifying that installations 19 “which are designed for leisure
purposes, but could also be used as a means for transporting persons” are within
the scope of the Directive;
providing more extensive guidance on the implementation of existing provisions
regarding inclined lifts and small funiculars. In this respect, it may also be
advantageous to consider the feasibility of amending the Application Guide to the
Lifts Directive so that (like the Application Guide to the Cableways Directive), it
emphasises the importance of companies formally collaborating with the
authorities at an early stage of the installation’s design to determine, on a case-bycase
basis, whether it is preferable to construct an inclined lift or a small funicular;
clarifying the distinction between safety components and subsystems in the
Application Guide, for example, by introducing a non-exhaustive list of safety
components; and
amending the Application Guide to recommend using specific conformity
assessment modules for the assessment of subsystems (conceivably, the same
modules as those applied to safety components could be used).
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Please note that this only refers to installations where suspension and/or traction is provided by cable.
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