G/TBT/N/EU/222  
 
14 July 2014  
(14-4022)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member: EUROPEAN UNION 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):    
2. Agency responsible: European Commission 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above : 
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Cableway installations 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Proposal for a 
Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Cableway Installations (COM (2014)187 final) (36 pages + Annexes 24 pages, in English, French and Spanish) 
6. Description of content: The proposal intends to replace Directive 2000/9/EC, relating to 
cableway installations designed to carry persons, by a Regulation.  
The proposed Regulation does not change the current scope of Directive 2000/9/EC, but it 
clarifies and updates it. It also modifies some  other provisions in order to improve their 
implementation. The proposed Regulation is aligned to the provisions of Decision No 
768/2008/EC establishing a common framework for the marketing of products (NLF 
Decision). 
In particular, experience from the implem entation of Directive 2000/9/EC made it 
necessary to update and clarify some of its provisions in order to provide more clarity and 
legal certainty. Those provisions mainly concern the definition of the scope, in order e.g. to 
clarify that cableway installations which do no t have an exclusively transport function but 
are designed for both transport and leisure pu rposes are covered. The proposed Regulation 
also introduces a wider range of conformity assessment procedures for subsystems and 
thus aligns the provisions on conformity assessment for subsystems provided for in Directive 2000/9/EC to those already available for safety components, based on the 
conformity assessment modules set out in the NLF Decision. 
The provisions inserted in accordance with the NLF Decision, relate to general definitions, 
obligations of economic operators, notified  bodies, etc. Those provisions clarify the 
obligations of manufacturers, authorised representatives, importers and distributors of 
subsystems and safety components. They reinforce the notification criteria and the 
monitoring of notified bodies. While the Prop osal keeps the existing conformity assessment 
procedures provided for by Directive 2000/9/EC  with regard to safety components and the 
intervention in all cases of a notified body, those procedures have been adapted to the NLF 
Decision and extended to cover subsystems. G/TBT/N/EU/222 
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
The proposal aims to modify some of the prov isions of Directive 2000/9/EC so as to clarify 
and update their content and to align them to Decision No 768/2008/EC. 
8. Relevant documents:   
 Directive 2000/9/EC of the European Par liament and of the Council of 20 March 
2000 Relating to Cableway Installations Designed to Carry Persons http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32000L0009&rid=1  
 Decision No 768/2008/EC of the European Pa rliament and of the Council of 9 July 
2008 on a Common Framework for the Marketing of Products, and repealing Council 
Decision 93/465/EEC http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:218:0082:0128:en:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   1st semester of 2015 
Proposed date of entry into force:   20 days from publication in  the Official Journal of the 
EU   
10. Final date for comments: 90 days from notification 
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax: + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail: eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
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