The Cableway Installations Regulations 2018

The Regulations define ’cableway installations’ as “a whole on-site system, consisting of infrastructure and subsystems, which is designed, constructed, assembled and put into service with the objective of transporting persons, where the traction is provided by cables positioned along the line of travel”. These can be, for example, funicular railways, gondolas and chair lifts or drag lifts.

The essential requirements are listed in Annex II to the Regulation 2016/424/EU.

In the case of cableway installations, the assistance of a Approved Body is obligatory.

An Approved Body verifies the compliance of subsystems and safety components by conducting a conformity assessment. It also ensures that the technical documentation sufficiently supports product compliance.

When the Approved Body is convinced that the product is compliant, it will issue a certificate of conformity to confirm this. The manufacturer will then draw up the Declaration of Conformity (DoC) to declare on his sole responsibility conformity to the relevant legislation.

The Regulation on cableway installations specifies in detail the requirements and for subsystems and safety components, it offers different modes of assessing product conformity in order for the manufacturer to affix the UKCA marking.

Before a subsystem or a safety component is placed on the market, the manufacturer shall submit the subsystem or the safety component to a conformity assessment procedure in accordance with Article 18(2). The details of the different conformity assessment procedures for subsystems and safety components are set out in Annexes III to VII to the Regulation: EU-type examination – production type, conformity to type based on quality assurance of the production process, conformity to type based on subsystem and safety component verification, conformity based on unit verification and conformity based on full quality assurance plus design examination.

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