Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 20 January 2016 - Strasbourg

Cableway installations (A8-0063/2015 - Antonio López-Istúriz White)

  Doru-Claudian Frunzulică (S&D), in writing. ‒ The Regulation aligns current legislation to the provisions to the goods package adopted in 2008 and in particular to Decision 768/2008/EC on a common framework for the marketing of products. It applies to new cableway installations and covers subsystems and safety components which are new to the Union market when they are placed on the market. The regulation does not apply to cableway installations of historical construction, installations intended for agricultural or forestry purposes, cableway installations for the service of mountain shelters and huts intended only for the transport of goods and specifically authorised persons and on-site or mobile equipment exclusively designed for leisure and amusement purposes and not as a means for transporting persons. The new regulation improves market surveillance and safety for consumers and other users of cableway installations. A main achievement is the inclusion of the explicit mentioning of the precautionary principle, as well as enhanced safety for consumers and other users. I voted in favour of the report.