prEN 13796-1

Safety requirements for cableway installations designed to carry persons - Carriers - Part 1: Grips, carrier trucks, on-board brakes, cabins, chairs, carriages, maintenance carriers, tow-hangers

Publication date:   Nov 27, 2025

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40.60   Close of voting   Feb 19, 2026

CEN

CEN/TC 242 Safety requirements for passenger transportation by rope

European Norm

45.100   Cableway equipment

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Scope

This European Standard specifies the safety requirements applicable to carriers for cableway installations designed to carry persons. It is applicable to the various types of installations and takes into account their environment.
It includes requirements relating to the prevention of accidents and the protection of workers.
It does not apply to installations for the transportation of goods or to inclined lifts.

Related legislation

Legislation related to this standard

2016/424

REGULATION (EU) 2016/424 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 9 March 2016 on cableway installations and repealing Directive 2000/9/EC

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