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Regulation (EU) 2016/424 Article 5

Entry into service of cableway installations

Article 5

1.   Member States shall, in accordance with Article 9, take all appropriate measures to determine the procedures for ensuring that cableway installations enter into service only if they comply with this Regulation and are not liable to endanger the health or safety of persons or property when properly installed, maintained and operated in accordance with their intended purpose. 2.   Member States shall, in accordance with Article 9, take all appropriate measures to determine the procedures for ensuring that the subsystems and safety components are incorporated into cableway installations only if they enable the construction of cableway installations which comply with this Regulation and are not liable to endanger the health or safety of persons or property when properly installed, maintained and operated in accordance with their intended purpose. 3.   Cableway installations which are in conformity with harmonised standards or parts thereof, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union , shall be presumed to be in conformity with the essential requirements set out in Annex II covered by those standards or parts thereof. 4.   This Regulation shall not affect Member States' entitlement to lay down such requirements as they may deem necessary to ensure that persons and, in particular, workers are protected when using the cableway installations in question, provided that this does not mean that the cableway installations are modified in a manner not covered by this Regulation.

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