The Provisions of the Directive (cont'd)

Article 1 also includes definitions of the terms ‘installation’ and ‘safety component’ as used in the explanatory section. An installation is defined as “the whole on-site system, consisting of infrastructure and the subsystems listed in Annex I, where infrastructure specially designed for each installation and constructed on site shall mean the layout, system data, station structures and structures along the line which are needed for the construction and the operation of the installation, including the foundations”.

The expression ‘safety component’ is used to refer to “any basic component, set of components, subassembly or complete assembly of equipment and any device incorporated in the installation for the purpose of ensuring a safety function and identified by the safety analysis, the failure of which endangers the safety or health of persons, be they users, operating personnel or third parties”.

In Article 3 the authors formulate the central stipulation that “installations and their infrastructure, subsystems and safety components of an installation must comply with the essential requirements which are laid down in Annex II and are applicable to them”. Where a national standard implementing a harmonised European standard covers the essential safety requirements laid down in Annex II, ropeways engineered in accordance with the provisions of that national standard shall be deemed to satisfy the relevant essential requirements.