- accreditation
means accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- authorised representative
means any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on his behalf in relation to specified tasks;
- cable car
means a cableway installation where the carriers are suspended from and propelled by one or more cables;
- cableway installation
means 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;
- conformity assessment
means the process demonstrating whether the essential requirements of this Regulation relating to a subsystem or safety component have been fulfilled;
- conformity assessment body
means a body that performs conformity assessment activities relating to a subsystem or safety component, including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;
- crisis-relevant goods
means crisis-relevant goods as defined in Article 3, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- distributor
means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a subsystem or a safety component available on the market;
- drag lift
means a cableway installation where passengers with appropriate equipment are towed along a prepared track;
- economic operators
means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor of a subsystem or a safety component;
- entry into service
means the initial operation of a cableway installation with the explicit object of transporting persons;
- funicular railway
means a cableway installation in which the carriers are hauled by one or more ropes along a track that may lie on the ground or be supported by fixed structures;
- harmonised standard
means a harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
- importer
means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a subsystem or a safety component from a third country on the Union market;
- infrastructure
means a station structure or a structure along the line specifically designed for each cableway installation and constructed on-site, which takes into account the layout and the data of the system and which is needed for the construction and the operation of the cableway installation, including the foundations;
- internal market emergency mode
means internal market emergency mode as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.
- maintainability
means all the technical provisions and measures which have an impact on design and construction and are necessary for maintenance, having been designed to ensure that the cableway installation operates safely;
- making available on the market
means any supply of a subsystem or a safety component for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
- manufacturer
means any natural or legal person who manufactures a subsystem or a safety component or who has such a subsystem or a safety component designed or manufactured, and markets that subsystem or safety component under his name or trade mark or incorporates it into a cableway installation;
- national accreditation body
means a national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- operability
means all the technical provisions and measures which have an impact on design and construction and are necessary in order for the cableway installation to operate safely;
- placing on the market
means the first making available of a subsystem or a safety component on the Union market;
- recall
means any measure aimed at achieving the return of a subsystem or a safety component that has already been made available to the person responsible for the cableway installation;
- safety component
means any component of equipment or any device intended to be incorporated into a subsystem or a cableway installation for the purpose of ensuring a safety function, the failure of which endangers the safety or health of passengers, operating personnel or third parties;
- subsystem
means a system listed in Annex I, or a combination thereof, intended to be incorporated into a cableway installation;
- technical specification
means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a cableway installation, infrastructure, subsystem or safety component;
- Union harmonisation legislation
means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;
- withdrawal
means any measure aimed at preventing a subsystem or a safety component in the supply chain from being made available on the market;