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CIR CE / Product Safety 11 min

CIR: Cableway Installations Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/424), explained

The Cableway Installations Regulation governs subsystems and safety components for cableway installations on the EU market and new passenger cableways, with a safety analysis, notified-body assessment, CE marking and duties for manufacturers, importers and the person responsible. It has applied since 21 April 2018; the emergency procedures of Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 apply from 29 May 2026.

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Who it applies to

Covered by the act

  • New cableway installations designed to transport persons, where the traction is provided by cables positioned along the line of travel: cable cars (carriers suspended from and propelled by one or more cables), drag lifts (passengers with appropriate equipment towed along a prepared track) and funicular railways (carriers hauled by one or more ropes along a track on the ground or on fixed structures)
  • Modifications of existing cableway installations that require a new authorisation for entry into service
  • Subsystems intended to be incorporated into a cableway installation: the six Annex I groups (cables and cable connections; drives and brakes; mechanical equipment; vehicles; electrotechnical devices; rescue equipment)
  • Safety components: any component of equipment or device intended to be incorporated into a subsystem or a cableway installation to ensure a safety function, the failure of which endangers passengers, operating personnel or third parties
  • The economic operators for subsystems and safety components (manufacturer, authorised representative, importer, distributor) and the person responsible for the cableway installation, determined by the Member State under national law

Derived and downstream products

  • Subsystems and safety components that conform to harmonised standards, or parts of them, whose references are published in the Official Journal are presumed to conform to the Annex II essential requirements those standards cover; the same presumption applies to installations (Art. 5(3) and Art. 17)
  • An importer or distributor that places a subsystem or safety component on the market under its own name or trade mark, or modifies one already placed on the market in a way that may affect compliance, is treated as the manufacturer (Art. 15)
  • Whoever incorporates a subsystem or safety component it has manufactured or had manufactured into a cableway installation is a manufacturer, not only whoever sells it (Art. 3, point (13))
  • Safety components incorporated as spare parts must satisfy the essential requirements and interact smoothly with the other parts of the installation (Annex II, point 2.6.4)
  • Where a subsystem or safety component is also subject to other Union acts requiring an EU declaration of conformity, a single declaration covering all of them is drawn up (Art. 19(3))
  • Member States may lay down additional requirements to protect persons, in particular workers, when using the installations, as long as this does not modify the installations in a manner not covered by the regulation (Art. 5(4))

Roles under the act

Manufacturer (including brand owners, installers who incorporate their own components, and authorised representatives acting for a manufacturer)

Any natural or legal person who manufactures a subsystem or a safety component or who has such a subsystem or safety component designed or manufactured, and markets it under his name or trade mark or incorporates it into a cableway installation; an importer or distributor that sells under its own brand or modifies a subsystem or safety component in a way that may affect compliance is treated as the manufacturer. A manufacturer may appoint by written mandate an authorised representative established in the Union to keep the declaration and technical documentation for 30 years, provide information and cooperate with authorities; the mandate cannot cover the duty to design and manufacture to the essential requirements or to draw up the technical documentation.

Source · Art. 3, points (13) and (14), Art. 12 and Art. 15
Importer

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.

Source · Art. 3, point (15)
Distributor (wholesaler, dealer or reseller)

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.

Source · Art. 3, point (16)
Person responsible for the cableway installation (in Denmark the building owner, bygherren)

The person responsible for the cableway installation, determined by a Member State in accordance with national law, who carries out or commissions the safety analysis of the planned installation and submits the safety report, the EU declarations of conformity and the other conformity documents to the authority that authorises construction and entry into service. In Denmark this is the building owner (bygherren), who applies to Erhvervsstyrelsen — Sikkerhedsstyrelsen until executive order nr. 490 of 28 May 2026 changed the name throughout the cableway order with effect from 30 May 2026 — for approval before the installation is put into use.

Source · Art. 8(1) and Art. 9(2)Source · § 5 and § 6Source · § 1, nr. 3

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  1. Lift covered by the Lifts Directive 2014/33/EU · any · any Not in scope Lifts covered by Directive 2014/33/EU are excluded from the regulation; the Lifts Directive applies instead. Source · Art. 2(2)(a)
  2. Historic, cultural or heritage installation in service since before 1 January 1986 without significant changes in design or construction, Installation intended for agricultural or forestry purposes, Cableway serving mountain shelters and huts, carrying only goods and specifically designated persons, On-site or mobile equipment designed exclusively for leisure and amusement purposes, not as a means of transporting persons, Mining installation or other industrial on-site installation used for industrial activities, Installation in which the users or their carriers are waterborne (cable ferry) · any · any Not in scope Article 2(2) excludes cableway installations categorised by Member States as historic, cultural or heritage installations that entered into service before 1 January 1986, are still in operation and have had no significant changes in design or construction (including subsystems and safety components specifically designed for them), installations intended for agricultural or forestry purposes, cableways serving mountain shelters and huts intended only for goods and specifically designated persons, on-site or mobile equipment exclusively designed for leisure and amusement and not as a means of transporting persons, mining and other industrial on-site installations, and installations in which the users or their carriers are waterborne. Other Union or national safety legislation may still apply. Source · Art. 2(2)(b) to (g)
  3. Material ropeway or cable transport system designed only to carry goods, not persons · any · any Not in scope The regulation applies to cableway installations designed to transport persons; a cableway installation is defined as a system put into service with the objective of transporting persons. A ropeway built only to carry goods is therefore outside the regulation, although other Union legislation may cover it. Source · Art. 2(1) and Art. 3, point (1)
  4. Cableway installation installed, or subsystem or safety component placed on the market, before 21 April 2018 under Directive 2000/9/EC · any · any It depends Subsystems and safety components conforming to Directive 2000/9/EC and placed on the market before 21 April 2018, and installations conforming to it and installed before that date, may still be made available and enter into service, and certificates and approval decisions issued for safety components under the directive remain valid. New subsystems and safety components for the installation, spare safety components and any modification that requires a new authorisation fall under the regulation. Source · Art. 2(1), Art. 9(3), Art. 46 and Annex II, point 2.6.4
  5. Subsystem for a cableway installation (cables, drives and brakes, mechanical equipment, vehicles, electrotechnical devices, rescue equipment), Safety component for a subsystem or cableway installation (rope grips, brakes, monitoring and safety devices, suspension gear and similar) · Manufacturer (including brand owners, installers who incorporate their own components, and authorised representatives acting for a manufacturer), Importer, Distributor (wholesaler, dealer or reseller) · any In scope Subsystems and safety components may be made available on the market only if they comply with the regulation; the manufacturer, authorised representative, importer and distributor obligations of Articles 11 to 16 apply and contain no company-size threshold. Source · Art. 4, Art. 11 to Art. 16
  6. Subsystem for a cableway installation (cables, drives and brakes, mechanical equipment, vehicles, electrotechnical devices, rescue equipment), Safety component for a subsystem or cableway installation (rope grips, brakes, monitoring and safety devices, suspension gear and similar) · Person responsible for the cableway installation (in Denmark the building owner, bygherren) · any In scope The person responsible for the installation must draw up the list of subsystems and safety components from the safety analysis, submit their EU declarations of conformity and other conformity documents to the authorising authority, keep copies at the installation and can be identified by every supplier as the recipient for 30 years. Source · Art. 8(4), Art. 9(2) and Art. 16
  7. New cableway installation designed to transport persons (cable car, gondola, chairlift, drag lift, funicular), Modification of an existing cableway installation that requires a new authorisation for entry into service · Person responsible for the cableway installation (in Denmark the building owner, bygherren) · any In scope New installations designed to transport persons and modifications requiring a new authorisation are within the regulation: the person responsible must carry out or commission the safety analysis, draw up the safety report and obtain the national authorisation for construction and entry into service; in Denmark the building owner applies to Erhvervsstyrelsen (Sikkerhedsstyrelsen before 30 May 2026) for approval before the installation is put into use and again for every significant modification, that is an extension, a dismantling, a relocation or any other change affecting the construction, the safety characteristics or the safety profile of the installation. Source · Art. 2(1), Art. 8 and Art. 9Source · § 6 and § 7Source · § 1, nr. 3
  8. New cableway installation designed to transport persons (cable car, gondola, chairlift, drag lift, funicular), Modification of an existing cableway installation that requires a new authorisation for entry into service · Manufacturer (including brand owners, installers who incorporate their own components, and authorised representatives acting for a manufacturer), Importer, Distributor (wholesaler, dealer or reseller) · any In scope An economic operator that supplies or incorporates subsystems and safety components into a new installation or a modification carries the Article 11 to 16 obligations for those subsystems and safety components, and whoever incorporates a subsystem or safety component it has made or had made is a manufacturer; the installation-level safety analysis and authorisation rest with the person responsible for the installation. Source · Art. 3, point (13), Art. 8(1) and Art. 11 to Art. 16
  9. any · any · any It depends Whether the regulation applies turns on whether the installation is designed to transport persons, whether an Article 2(2) exclusion applies, whether the product is a subsystem or safety component, when it was placed on the market or installed, and which role the operator holds. Source · Art. 2 and Art. 3

Key dates

  1. Regulation (EU) 2016/424 adopted by the European Parliament and the Council, replacing Directive 2000/9/EC with a directly applicable regulation aligned with the New Legislative Framework Source · title and signature block after Art. 48
  2. Publication in the Official Journal, OJ L 81 of 31 March 2016, page 1 Source · header of the consolidated text
  3. Entry into force, the twentieth day following publication Source · Art. 48(1)
  4. Articles 22 to 38 (notification of conformity assessment bodies and notified bodies) and Article 44 (committee procedure) apply, so that bodies could be notified before the main application date Source · Art. 48(2)(a)
  5. Article 45(1) applies: Member States must have laid down their rules on penalties and notified them to the Commission by this date Source · Art. 45(1) and Art. 48(2)(b)
  6. The regulation applies in full and Directive 2000/9/EC is repealed; subsystems and safety components conforming to the directive and placed on the market before this date, and installations conforming to it and installed before this date, may still be made available or enter into service, and certificates and approval decisions issued for safety components under the directive remain valid Source · Art. 46, Art. 47 and Art. 48(2)
  7. Danish executive order nr. 2517 of 14 December 2021 on cableway installations in force, replacing executive order nr. 211 of 14 March 2018: the building owner (bygherren) is the person responsible for the installation and applies to Sikkerhedsstyrelsen for approval before entry into service; instructions and safety information must be in Danish Source · § 5, § 6, § 8 and § 14
  8. Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 in force: definitions of crisis-relevant goods and internal market emergency mode added to Article 3 and Chapter Va (Articles 43a to 43e) on emergency procedures inserted Source · Art. 2 and Art. 7
  9. The emergency procedures of Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 apply Source · Art. 7
  10. Danish executive order nr. 490 of 28 May 2026 in force: 'Sikkerhedsstyrelsen' is replaced by 'Erhvervsstyrelsen' throughout executive order nr. 2517 on cableway installations, the order is re-based on the product act (lovbekendtgørelse nr. 22 of 8 January 2026, § 37, stk. 3 and 4), the footnote is updated with Regulation (EU) 2024/2748, and a new § 8, stk. 2, requires a subsystem or safety component covered by an extended Article 43c(2) authorisation to carry the information that it is placed on the market as a crisis-relevant good, clearly and in Danish or English Source · § 1, nr. 1 to 4, and § 2

What you must do

Obligations by role

Manufacturer (including brand owners, installers who incorporate their own components, and authorised representatives acting for a manufacturer)15
  • Ensure that subsystems and safety components you place on the market or incorporate into a cableway installation are designed and manufactured in accordance with the Annex II essential requirements, including dimensioning for all foreseeable stresses, safe assembly, integrity of safety components so that their failure is highly improbable, fire and lightning protection, safety devices, maintainability and the specific requirements for cables, drives, brakes, vehicles and towing devices. Art. 6, Art. 11(1) and Annex II
  • Draw up the Annex VIII technical documentation: a general description, drawings and diagrams, the harmonised standards applied in full or in part or the solutions adopted instead, design calculations and test reports, a copy of the instructions and, for subsystems, the EU declarations of conformity of the safety components incorporated. Art. 11(2) and Annex VIII
  • Before placing the subsystem or safety component on the market, submit it to an Article 18 procedure: EU-type examination (Module B) with Module D or F, unit verification (Module G), or full quality assurance plus design examination (Module H1); every route involves a notified body. Art. 11(2), Art. 18 and Annexes III to VII
  • Draw up the EU declaration of conformity following the Annex IX model with the elements of the module used, keep it continuously updated, translate it into the languages the Member State requires, and make it a single declaration where other Union acts also require one. Art. 11(2), Art. 19 and Annex IX
  • Affix the CE marking visibly, legibly and indelibly before placing the subsystem or safety component on the market, followed by the identification number of the notified body involved in the production control phase. Art. 11(2) and Art. 21
  • Keep the technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity for 30 years after the subsystem or safety component was placed on the market, together with the module records (EU-type examination certificate, quality system approvals, certificates of conformity) for the same period. Art. 11(3), Annex III, point 9, Annex IV, point 6, Annex V, point 4.2, Annex VI, point 3.2, and Annex VII, point 6
  • Keep series production of the subsystem or safety component in conformity, taking account of changes in its design or characteristics and in the harmonised standards or technical specifications by reference to which conformity is declared. Art. 11(4)
  • Where the risks warrant it, sample-test subsystems and safety components made available on the market, investigate complaints and keep a register of complaints, non-conforming products and recalls, and keep distributors informed of that monitoring. Art. 11(4)
  • Mark each subsystem or safety component with a type, batch or serial number or other identifier and with your name, registered trade name or trade mark and a single postal contact address, in a language easily understood by users and authorities, or on the packaging or an accompanying document where size or nature does not allow it. Art. 11(5) and Art. 11(6)
  • Accompany each subsystem or safety component with a copy of the EU declaration of conformity; one copy per batch or consignment delivered to a single operator or user is enough. Art. 11(7)
  • Supply clear instructions and safety information with each subsystem or safety component in the language the Member State determines, which in Denmark means Danish. Art. 11(7)§ 8
  • If you consider or have reason to believe that a subsystem or safety component you placed on the market does not conform, immediately bring it into conformity, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk inform the competent national authorities of the Member States where you made it available. Art. 11(8)
  • On a reasoned request from a competent national authority, provide all the information and documentation needed to demonstrate the conformity of the subsystem or safety component, in a language that authority can easily understand, and cooperate with it on any action to eliminate the risks it poses. Art. 11(9)
  • Be able to identify to the market surveillance authorities, for 30 years, every economic operator that supplied you and every economic operator and person responsible for a cableway installation to whom you supplied a subsystem or safety component. Art. 16
  • If you appoint an authorised representative, give it a written mandate that at least covers keeping the EU declaration of conformity and the technical documentation for 30 years, providing information on request and cooperating with the authorities; the design and manufacturing duties and the drawing up of the technical documentation stay with you. Art. 12
Importer10
  • Place only compliant subsystems and safety components on the market, and before doing so check that the manufacturer carried out the Article 18 conformity assessment, drew up the technical documentation, affixed the CE marking, supplied the EU declaration of conformity, instructions, safety information and other required documents, and applied the identification and address markings; hold back non-conforming products and inform the manufacturer and the market surveillance authorities where they present a risk. Art. 13(1) and Art. 13(2)
  • Indicate your name, registered trade name or trade mark and a postal contact address on the subsystem or safety component or, where not possible, on its packaging or in an accompanying document, in a language easily understood by users and authorities, and keep any website you name accessible and up to date. Art. 13(3)
  • Ensure the subsystem or safety component is accompanied by instructions and safety information in the language determined by the Member State, in Denmark Danish. Art. 13(4)§ 8
  • While a subsystem or safety component is under your responsibility, keep its storage and transport conditions from jeopardising its compliance with the essential requirements. Art. 13(5)
  • Where the risks warrant it, sample-test subsystems and safety components made available on the market, investigate complaints and keep a register of complaints, non-conforming products and recalls, and keep distributors informed of that monitoring. Art. 13(6)
  • If a subsystem or safety component you placed on the market does not conform, immediately take corrective measures, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk inform the competent authorities of the Member States concerned. Art. 13(7)
  • Keep a copy of the EU declaration of conformity at the disposal of the market surveillance authorities for 30 years after the subsystem or safety component was placed on the market, and ensure the technical documentation can be made available to them on request. Art. 13(8)
  • On a reasoned request from a competent national authority, provide all the information and documentation needed to demonstrate the conformity of the subsystem or safety component, in a language that authority can easily understand, and cooperate with it on any action to eliminate the risks it poses. Art. 13(9)
  • Be able to identify to the market surveillance authorities, for 30 years, every economic operator that supplied you and every economic operator and person responsible for a cableway installation to whom you supplied a subsystem or safety component. Art. 16
  • If you place a subsystem or safety component on the market under your own name or trade mark, or modify one already on the market in a way that may affect compliance, you carry the manufacturer's obligations under Article 11. Art. 15
Distributor (wholesaler, dealer or reseller)6
  • Act with due care and, before making a subsystem or safety component available, verify that it bears the CE marking and is accompanied by a copy of the EU declaration of conformity, instructions, safety information and other required documents in the language of the Member State, and that the manufacturer and importer have applied their identification and address markings; hold back non-conforming products and inform the manufacturer or importer and the market surveillance authorities where they present a risk. Art. 14(1) and Art. 14(2)
  • Keep storage and transport conditions from jeopardising compliance with the Annex II essential requirements while the product is under your responsibility. Art. 14(3)
  • If a subsystem or safety component you made available does not conform, make sure corrective measures are taken to bring it into conformity, withdraw or recall it, and where it presents a risk immediately inform the competent authorities of the Member States concerned. Art. 14(4)
  • On a reasoned request from a competent national authority, provide all the information and documentation needed to demonstrate the conformity of the subsystem or safety component, and cooperate with it on any action to eliminate the risks posed by products you made available. Art. 14(5)
  • Be able to identify to the market surveillance authorities, for 30 years, every economic operator that supplied you and every economic operator and person responsible for a cableway installation to whom you supplied a subsystem or safety component. Art. 16
  • If you sell under your own name or trade mark or modify a subsystem or safety component in a way that may affect compliance, you take on the manufacturer's obligations. Art. 15
Person responsible for the cableway installation (in Denmark the building owner, bygherren)5
  • Carry out, or have carried out, a safety analysis of the planned cableway installation that takes into account all envisaged modes of operation, follows a recognised or established method, reflects the state of the art and the complexity of the installation, takes account of the local surroundings and the most adverse situations, covers all safety aspects of design, construction and entry into service, makes it possible to identify from past experience the risks liable to occur in operation, and covers the safety devices and their effects on the installation. Art. 8(1), Art. 8(2) and Art. 8(3)
  • Use the safety analysis to draw up the inventory of risks and dangerous situations, the measures envisaged to deal with them and the list of subsystems and safety components to be incorporated, and record its result in a safety report. Art. 8(4) and Art. 8(5)
  • Submit the safety report, the EU declarations of conformity and the other conformity documents for the subsystems and safety components, and the documentation on the characteristics of the installation, including the conditions and restrictions on operation and full details for servicing, supervision, adjustment and maintenance, to the authority or body that authorises the installation; in Denmark the building owner sends them to Erhvervsstyrelsen no later than the start of construction, the first three in Danish or English, and obtains its approval before the installation is put into use. Art. 9(2), first and second sentences§ 6§ 1, nr. 3
  • Keep a copy of the safety report, the EU declarations of conformity, the other conformity documents and the documentation on the characteristics of the installation at the cableway installation. Art. 9(2), last sentence
  • Where important characteristics, subsystems or safety components of an existing installation are modified in a way that requires a new authorisation for entry into service, obtain that authorisation for a modification that, with its repercussions on the installation as a whole, satisfies the Annex II essential requirements; in Denmark every significant modification (an extension, a dismantling, a relocation or any other change affecting the construction, the safety characteristics or the safety profile) needs a new approval from Erhvervsstyrelsen, while minor changes that keep the scope and the integrity of the installation do not. Art. 9(3)§ 7§ 1, nr. 3

CIR in plain terms

The Cableway Installations Regulation (CIR), formally Regulation (EU) 2016/424, is the EU’s safety law for installations that carry people by cable: cable cars and gondolas, chairlifts, drag lifts and funicular railways. It has two layers. It lays down rules on the making available on the market and the free movement of subsystems and safety components for cableway installations, and it contains rules on the design, construction and entry into service of new cableway installations (Art. 1). Subsystems and safety components may be made available only if they comply with the regulation (Art. 4), Member States may not impede compliant ones (Art. 7), and the installations themselves may enter into service only if they comply and are not liable to endanger persons or property (Art. 5).

The regulation replaced Directive 2000/9/EC on 21 April 2018 (Art. 47). As a regulation it applies directly in every Member State, but it deliberately leaves the authorisation of construction and entry into service, the operation of installations and the identity of the person responsible for the installation to national procedures (Art. 8, Art. 9 and Art. 10).

Official text Read the regulation on EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) 2016/424 (CELEX 32016R0424), or the consolidated text of 29 May 2026 that includes the internal market emergency procedures.

Scope

The regulation applies to new cableway installations designed to transport persons, to modifications of cableway installations requiring a new authorisation, and to subsystems and safety components for cableway installations (Art. 2(1)). A cableway installation is a whole on-site system of infrastructure and subsystems, designed, constructed, assembled and put into service to transport persons, where the traction is provided by cables positioned along the line of travel (Art. 3, point (1)). Three types are defined: the cable car, whose carriers are suspended from and propelled by one or more cables; the drag lift, where passengers with appropriate equipment are towed along a prepared track; and the funicular railway, whose carriers are hauled by ropes along a track on the ground or on fixed structures (Art. 3, points (7) to (9)).

Article 2(2) lists what falls outside: (a) lifts covered by Directive 2014/33/EU; (b) cableway installations categorised by Member States as historic, cultural or heritage installations that entered into service before 1 January 1986, are still in operation and have had no significant changes in design or construction, including subsystems and safety components specifically designed for them; (c) installations intended for agricultural or forestry purposes; (d) cableway installations for the service of mountain shelters and huts intended only for the transport of goods and specifically designated persons; (e) on-site or mobile equipment exclusively designed for leisure and amusement purposes and not as a means for transporting persons; (f) mining installations or other industrial on-site installations used for industrial activities; and (g) installations in which the users or their carriers are waterborne. A ropeway built only to carry goods is not a cableway installation at all, because the definition requires the objective of transporting persons.

A subsystem is a system listed in Annex I, or a combination of them, intended to be incorporated into an installation (Art. 3, point (2)). Annex I divides an installation into infrastructure and six subsystem groups: cables and cable connections; drives and brakes; mechanical equipment (cable winding gear, station machinery, line engineering); vehicles (cabins, seats or drag devices, suspension gear, driving gear, connections to the cable); electrotechnical devices (monitoring, control and safety devices, communication and information equipment, lightning protection); and rescue equipment (fixed and mobile). A safety component is any component or device intended to be incorporated into a subsystem or an installation to ensure a safety function, the failure of which endangers the safety or health of passengers, operating personnel or third parties (Art. 3, point (4)). Infrastructure, the station and line structures built on site for each installation, is covered by the essential requirements but is not a product placed on the market (Art. 3, point (3), and Art. 6).

The duties fall on the economic operators for subsystems and safety components, namely the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor (Art. 3, points (13) to (17)), and on the person responsible for the cableway installation, whom each Member State determines under national law (Art. 8(1)). A manufacturer is whoever manufactures a subsystem or safety component, or has it designed or manufactured, and markets it under his name or trade mark or incorporates it into a cableway installation (Art. 3, point (13)); an importer or distributor that sells under its own brand or modifies a product in a way that may affect compliance takes on the manufacturer’s obligations (Art. 15). In Denmark the person responsible for the installation is the building owner, bygherren (executive order nr. 2517 of 14 December 2021, § 5).

What you must do

Safety analysis, safety report and authorisation

Every planned installation needs a safety analysis, carried out or commissioned by the person responsible for the installation. It must take into account all envisaged modes of operation, follow a recognised or established method, reflect the state of the art and the complexity of the installation, ensure that the design and configuration take account of the local surroundings and the most adverse situations, cover all safety aspects of the installation and its external factors in design, construction and entry into service, and make it possible to identify from past experience the risks liable to occur in operation (Art. 8(1) and (2)). It also covers the safety devices, which must react to a detected failure by remaining in a safe state, a lower operating mode or a fail-safe state, be redundant and monitored, or have a failure probability that can be evaluated to an equivalent standard (Art. 8(3)). The analysis produces the inventory of risks and dangerous situations, the measures to deal with them and the list of subsystems and safety components to be incorporated, and its result goes into a safety report (Art. 8(4) and (5)).

Each Member State lays down procedures for authorising the construction and entry into service of installations on its territory. The person responsible submits the safety report, the EU declarations of conformity and the other conformity documents for the subsystems and safety components, and the documentation on the characteristics of the installation, including the conditions and restrictions on operation and full details for servicing, supervision, adjustment and maintenance; a copy is kept at the installation (Art. 9(1) and (2)). Modifications of important characteristics, subsystems or safety components that require a new authorisation must satisfy the essential requirements in their repercussions on the whole installation (Art. 9(3)). Member States may not use these procedures to hinder compliant installations or the free movement of compliant subsystems and safety components (Art. 9(4) and (5)), and an installation stays in operation only if it complies with the conditions in the safety report (Art. 10). In Denmark the building owner applies to Erhvervsstyrelsen for approval before the installation is put into use, sends the safety report, the EU declaration of conformity, the other conformity documents and the documentation on the characteristics of the installation no later than the start of construction — the first three in Danish or English — and applies again for every significant modification, though not for minor changes that keep the scope and the integrity of the installation so that it still complies with the rules that applied when it was originally built (executive order nr. 2517, §§ 6 to 8, as amended by executive order nr. 490 of 28 May 2026).

Essential requirements and harmonised standards

Installations, their infrastructure, subsystems and safety components must meet the essential requirements of Annex II that apply to them (Art. 6). Annex II starts with general requirements: the safety of passengers, operating personnel and third parties is fundamental; risks are eliminated by design, then protected against, then addressed by stated precautions, in that order; installations, subsystems and safety components are dimensioned to withstand all foreseeable stresses including dynamic effects and fatigue; safety components are designed so that assembly mistakes are impossible and their failure highly improbable; fire and lightning are addressed; safety devices detect and process defects, the installation can always be shut down manually and cannot be restarted after a safety shutdown without appropriate action; and maintainability and nuisance limits apply (Annex II, section 2). Sections 3 to 7 add requirements for infrastructure (layout, speed, distance between vehicles, stations and line structures), for cables, drives and brakes (two or more braking systems except on drag lifts, a standby drive unless the safety analysis shows it is unnecessary), control and communication devices, vehicles and towing devices (no passenger can fall out, doors that close and lock, anti-derailment and track brakes where the risk cannot be excluded), equipment for passengers and operating personnel, and operability, including an instruction manual in the language of the Member State where the installation is built, qualified operating staff and rescue of passengers within a set time when the installation is immobilised.

Subsystems and safety components that conform to harmonised standards, or parts of them, whose references are published in the Official Journal are presumed to conform to the essential requirements those standards cover (Art. 17); the same presumption applies to installations (Art. 5(3)). The Commission publishes the list of harmonised standards for cableway installations and an application guide on its cableways page.

Conformity assessment with a notified body

Before placing a subsystem or safety component on the market, the manufacturer submits it to one of the Article 18 procedures, at its own choice: EU-type examination (Module B, production type, Annex III) combined with conformity to type based on quality assurance of the production process (Module D, Annex IV) or with conformity to type based on subsystem or safety component verification (Module F, Annex V); conformity based on unit verification (Module G, Annex VI); or conformity based on full quality assurance plus design examination (Module H1, Annex VII). Every route involves a notified body. Under Module B the body examines the technical documentation and a representative specimen and issues an EU-type examination certificate valid for at most 30 years (Annex III, point 6); under Module D it approves and audits the production quality system at least every two years (Annex IV, point 4.3); under Module F it examines and tests every unit or statistical lots and issues certificates of conformity (Annex V, points 4 and 5); under Module G it verifies each unit (Annex VI); and under Module H1 it approves the full quality system, examines the design and issues an EU design examination certificate, with a full reassessment every three years (Annex VII, points 3.6 and 4.3). Records and correspondence are drawn up in an official language of the Member State where the notified body is established or in a language it accepts (Art. 18(3)).

The technical documentation of Annex VIII must make it possible to assess conformity and include an adequate analysis and assessment of the risks, a general description, design and manufacturing drawings and diagrams with the explanations needed to understand them, the list of harmonised standards applied in full or in part or the solutions adopted instead, the supporting evidence for the design including calculations and test reports, a copy of the instructions and, for subsystems, copies of the EU declarations of conformity for the safety components incorporated.

EU declaration of conformity and CE marking

The EU declaration of conformity states that the fulfilment of the Annex II essential requirements has been demonstrated, follows the Annex IX model, contains the elements of the module used, is continuously updated, accompanies the subsystem or safety component and is translated into the languages required by the Member State where the product is placed or made available; where other Union acts also require a declaration, a single declaration covers them all (Art. 19). The CE marking is subject to the general principles of Article 30 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 (Art. 20) and is affixed visibly, legibly and indelibly to the product or its data plate, or to the packaging and documents where the nature of the product does not allow it, before placing on the market, and is followed by the identification number of the notified body involved in the production control phase (Art. 21).

Obligations by role

Manufacturers design and manufacture to the essential requirements, draw up the technical documentation, run the conformity assessment, draw up the declaration and affix the CE marking, keep the documentation and declaration for 30 years, keep series production in conformity with sample testing and a complaints register where the risks warrant it, mark the product with an identifier and their name and address, supply the declaration, instructions and safety information in the required language, take corrective action and inform the authorities of risks, and cooperate on request (Art. 11). An authorised representative acts under a written mandate that must at least cover keeping the declaration and documentation for 30 years, providing information and cooperating with the authorities, and cannot take over the design duties or the drawing up of the technical documentation (Art. 12). Importers place only compliant products on the market, verify the manufacturer’s work, add their own name and address, ensure instructions in the required language, protect the product in storage and transport, take corrective action and keep the declaration for 30 years (Art. 13). Distributors verify the CE marking, documents, language and markings before making a product available, protect it in storage and transport and see that corrective action is taken (Art. 14). Importers and distributors that sell under their own brand or modify a product become manufacturers (Art. 15), and every operator identifies its suppliers and the operators and persons responsible for installations it supplied for 30 years (Art. 16).

Emergency procedures from 29 May 2026

Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 inserted Chapter Va. Articles 43b to 43e apply only to subsystems and safety components designated as crisis-relevant goods, only while an internal market emergency mode under Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 is active and only after the Commission has adopted the activating implementing act (Art. 43a). During such a period notified bodies process applications for the listed products as a matter of priority (Art. 43b); a Member State may authorise, on a justified request, the placing on the market or incorporation of a specific product for which the notified-body procedure has not been carried out but compliance with Annex II has been demonstrated otherwise, with the product bearing the information that it is placed on the market as a crisis-relevant good and no CE marking (Art. 43c); the Commission may list standards or establish common specifications that give a presumption of conformity (Art. 43d); and Member States prioritise market surveillance of the listed products and assist one another (Art. 43e).

Enforcement and penalties

Market surveillance of subsystems and safety components follows Article 39, which applies Article 15(3) and Articles 16 to 29 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008; those articles were repealed by Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 with effect from 16 July 2021 and the regulation is listed in point 61 of Annex I to that regulation, so the reference is read as Regulation (EU) 2019/1020. Where an authority has sufficient reason to believe that a subsystem or safety component presents a risk to persons or property, it evaluates the product, requires corrective action, withdrawal or recall within a period commensurate with the risk, informs the notified body and, if the operator does not act, prohibits or restricts the making available, withdraws or recalls the product and informs the Commission and the other Member States (Art. 40). Article 40(1) also declares Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 applicable to those measures; that article is one of the provisions repealed by Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and is read as the corresponding provisions of that regulation, while Article 30 on the CE marking, referred to in Articles 20 and 43(1)(a), remains in force. The Commission decides disputed national measures through the Union safeguard procedure (Art. 41), compliant products that still present a risk can be treated the same way (Art. 42), and formal non-compliance, such as CE marking or the notified-body number missing or wrongly affixed, a missing or incorrect declaration, incomplete technical documentation or missing identification and address information, must be ended and otherwise leads to restriction, prohibition, withdrawal or recall (Art. 43). A Member State that finds an authorised installation liable to endanger persons or property restricts or prohibits its operation (Art. 10(2)).

Penalties are set nationally: Member States lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for infringements by economic operators, which may include criminal penalties for serious infringements and may be increased for repeat infringements (Art. 45). In Denmark, the regulation is supplemented by executive order nr. 2517 of 14 December 2021 on cableway installations, in force since 1 January 2022 and amended by executive order nr. 490 of 28 May 2026 with effect from 30 May 2026. It makes the building owner the person responsible, requires approval before entry into service and after significant modifications, requires instructions and safety information in Danish, and punishes breaches with a fine unless a higher penalty is due under other legislation; for breaches of the entry-into-service and market rules and of the language requirements (§§ 3, 4 and 8) the penalty can rise to imprisonment for up to 2 years under aggravating circumstances such as a danger to safety or health, an accident with serious injury or death, a repeat offence, a systematic infringement for financial gain or an attempt to evade the control authority (§ 13). Since 30 May 2026 the order names Erhvervsstyrelsen throughout, and a new § 8, stk. 2, requires a subsystem or safety component covered by an extended Article 43c(2) authorisation to carry the ‘crisis-relevant good’ information in Danish or English. Sikkerhedsstyrelsen took over the area from Arbejdstilsynet on 1 December 2018 and became a department of Erhvervsstyrelsen (the Danish Business Authority) named Markedsovervågning in January 2026; Erhvervsstyrelsen is the control authority under the Danish product act, which lists the cableway regulation in § 2, stk. 1, nr. 39, and it designates the Danish notified bodies, which must be accredited by DANAK. Arbejdstilsynet remains the control authority for installations made to order or imported for offshore oil and gas activities under the offshore safety act.

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Penalties

Enforced by National market surveillance authorities enforce the regulation for subsystems and safety components under Article 39, which still cites Article 15(3) and Articles 16 to 29 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008, read as Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 since 16 July 2021 (the regulation is listed in point 61 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2019/1020), while the authorisation, entry into service and operation of the installations themselves are national procedures under Articles 5, 9 and 10. In Denmark, Erhvervsstyrelsen, which absorbed Sikkerhedsstyrelsen in January 2026 and runs its Markedsovervågning department, is the control authority under the product act (lovbekendtgørelse nr. 22 of 8 January 2026, § 2, stk. 1, nr. 39, and § 9) and, since executive order nr. 490 of 28 May 2026 replaced 'Sikkerhedsstyrelsen' with 'Erhvervsstyrelsen' throughout executive order nr. 2517 of 14 December 2021 on cableway installations, it is also the authority named in that order: it approves new installations for entry into service and designates the notified bodies; Arbejdstilsynet remains the authority for installations made to order or imported for offshore oil and gas activities. The toolkit is corrective action within a period commensurate with the risk, prohibition or restriction of the making available, withdrawal or recall, orders to end formal non-compliance such as missing CE marking, notified-body number or declaration, restriction or prohibition of the operation of an installation that endangers persons or property, and national penalties that must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive and may include criminal penalties for serious infringements. Article 40(1) also declares Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 applicable to those measures; that article is one of the provisions repealed by Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and is read as the corresponding provisions of that regulation, while Article 30 on the CE marking, referred to in Articles 20 and 43(1)(a), remains in force.

Member States lay down the rules on penalties for infringements by economic operators of the regulation and of the national law adopted under it; the penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive, may include criminal penalties for serious infringements and may be increased for repeat infringements, and the rules had to be notified to the Commission by 21 March 2018. Market surveillance authorities evaluate subsystems and safety components that present a risk to persons or property, require corrective action, withdrawal or recall within a period commensurate with the risk, inform the notified body, and if the operator fails to act prohibit or restrict the making available, withdraw or recall the product and notify the Commission and the other Member States; compliant products that still present a risk can be treated the same way, and Member States restrict or prohibit the operation of an authorised installation that endangers persons or property. Formal non-compliance, such as CE marking or the notified-body number missing or wrongly affixed, a missing or incorrect EU declaration of conformity, incomplete technical documentation or missing identification and address information, must be ended and otherwise leads to restriction, prohibition, withdrawal or recall. In Denmark, executive order nr. 2517 of 14 December 2021 on cableway installations, as amended by executive order nr. 490 of 28 May 2026, punishes with a fine, unless a higher penalty is due under other legislation, whoever puts an installation into use or incorporates subsystems or safety components in breach of § 3, makes subsystems or safety components available in breach of § 4, breaches the Danish language requirements of § 8, or fails to apply for the entry-into-service approval required by §§ 6 and 7. For breaches of §§ 3, 4 and 8 the penalty can rise to imprisonment for up to 2 years under aggravating circumstances — the infringement created a danger to safety or health, it caused an accident with serious injury or death, it is a repeat offence, it was committed as part of a systematic infringement for financial gain, or the trader tried to circumvent or evade the control authority's control — and companies can be held criminally liable under Chapter 5 of the Danish criminal code. Erhvervsstyrelsen, which absorbed Sikkerhedsstyrelsen in January 2026 and runs its Markedsovervågning department, is the control authority under the Danish product act, which lists the cableway regulation in § 2, stk. 1, nr. 39, and whose § 37, stk. 3 and 4, is the basis for those penalties.

Source · Art. 10(2), Art. 40, Art. 42, Art. 43 and Art. 45Source · § 13Source · §§ 1 og 2Source · § 2, stk. 1, nr. 39, § 9 and § 37Source

What changed

Entry into force, amendments and Compliance Radar entries for CIR, newest first.

  1. Guidance

    Guide rewritten from the consolidated text of 29 May 2026

    The body now follows the consolidated text: the regulation also governs the design, construction and entry into service of new installations and the person responsible for them, not only subsystems and safety components; the seven Article 2(2) exclusions are quoted; the five conformity modules, the 30-year record-keeping period, the transitional provisions and the emergency procedures are added; and the Danish enforcement is corrected to Sikkerhedsstyrelsen as the Markedsovervågning department of Erhvervsstyrelsen under executive order nr. 2517 of 14 December 2021 and the product act.

    Source · Art. 1, Art. 2, Art. 8, Art. 11, Art. 18 and Art. 46Source · § 5, § 6 and § 14
  2. Amendment

    Danish cableway order amended: Erhvervsstyrelsen takes over and crisis-relevant goods must be labelled

    Executive order nr. 490 of 28 May 2026 amends executive order nr. 2517 of 14 December 2021: 'Sikkerhedsstyrelsen' becomes 'Erhvervsstyrelsen' throughout, so the building owner now applies to Erhvervsstyrelsen for the entry-into-service approval and Erhvervsstyrelsen designates the Danish notified bodies; the order is re-issued under the product act (lovbekendtgørelse nr. 22 of 8 January 2026, § 8, § 26, stk. 2, § 31, stk. 1 and 2, and § 37, stk. 3 and 4); the footnote now cites Regulation (EU) 2024/2748; and a new § 8, stk. 2, requires a subsystem or safety component covered by an implementing act extending an Article 43c(2) authorisation to carry the 'crisis-relevant good' information clearly, understandably and in Danish or English.

    Source · § 1, nr. 1 to 4, and § 2
  3. Applies

    Emergency procedures for crisis-relevant subsystems and safety components apply

    Chapter Va (Articles 43a to 43e) applies: prioritised notified-body assessment, national authorisations to place designated products on the market without the notified-body procedure and without CE marking, presumption of conformity based on listed standards or common specifications, and prioritised market surveillance with mutual assistance, only for subsystems and safety components designated as crisis-relevant goods while an internal market emergency mode under Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 is active.

    Source · Art. 7Source · Art. 43a to Art. 43e
  4. Amendment

    Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 in force: internal market emergency procedures

    The amending regulation of 9 October 2024, published on 8 November 2024, adds the definitions of crisis-relevant goods and internal market emergency mode to Article 3 and inserts Chapter Va (Articles 43a to 43e); it applies from 29 May 2026. A corrigendum of 22 April 2025 corrected Article 43d(6).

    Source · Art. 2 and Art. 7
  5. Applies

    Regulation (EU) 2016/424 applies in full; Directive 2000/9/EC repealed

    The obligations of economic operators, the conformity assessment procedures, the EU declaration of conformity, the CE marking and the market surveillance procedures apply from 21 April 2018, and Directive 2000/9/EC is repealed with effect from the same date; subsystems, safety components and installations conforming to the directive and placed on the market or installed before that date may still be made available or enter into service, and certificates issued for safety components under the directive remain valid.

    Source · Art. 46, Art. 47 and Art. 48(2)
  6. Applies

    Notified-body and committee articles apply

    Articles 22 to 38 on the notification of conformity assessment bodies and Article 44 on the committee procedure apply from 21 October 2016, eighteen months before the rest of the regulation, so that notified bodies were in place by 21 April 2018.

    Source · Art. 48(2)(a)
  7. In force

    Regulation (EU) 2016/424 enters into force

    Adopted on 9 March 2016 and published in OJ L 81 on 31 March 2016, the regulation entered into force on the twentieth day after publication. A corrigendum published in OJ L 266 of 30 September 2016 corrected the wording of Annex II, point 4.1.2, on cable derailment.

    Source · Art. 48(1)Source · header and Annex II, point 4.1.2

Questions people ask about CIR

When did the Cableway Installations Regulation 2016/424 start to apply?

The regulation was adopted on 9 March 2016, published in the Official Journal on 31 March 2016 and entered into force on 20 April 2016. Articles 22 to 38 on notified bodies and Article 44 on the committee applied from 21 October 2016, Article 45(1) on penalties from 21 March 2018, and the regulation as a whole from 21 April 2018, when Directive 2000/9/EC was repealed. Being a regulation, it applies directly in every Member State without transposition.

Source · Art. 47 and Art. 48
Which installations and products does the regulation cover, and which are excluded?

It applies to new cableway installations designed to transport persons, to modifications of installations that require a new authorisation, and to subsystems and safety components for cableway installations. It does not apply to lifts covered by Directive 2014/33/EU, to installations categorised by Member States as historic, cultural or heritage installations that entered into service before 1 January 1986 and have had no significant changes (including subsystems and safety components specifically designed for them), to installations for agricultural or forestry purposes, to cableways serving mountain shelters and huts that carry only goods and specifically designated persons, to on-site or mobile leisure and amusement equipment not meant to transport persons, to mining and other industrial on-site installations, or to installations in which the users or their carriers are waterborne.

Source · Art. 2
Do I need a notified body, and which conformity assessment modules can I use?

Yes. Every route in Article 18 involves a notified body: EU-type examination (Module B, Annex III) combined with either conformity to type based on quality assurance of the production process (Module D, Annex IV) or conformity to type based on subsystem or safety component verification (Module F, Annex V); conformity based on unit verification (Module G, Annex VI); or conformity based on full quality assurance plus design examination (Module H1, Annex VII). The manufacturer chooses the route and a single notified body, an EU-type examination certificate is valid for at most 30 years, and the CE marking is followed by the identification number of the notified body involved in the production control phase.

Source · Art. 18, Art. 21(3) and Annexes III to VII
How long must the technical documentation and records be kept?

Thirty years after the subsystem or safety component was placed on the market. Manufacturers keep the technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity for 30 years, authorised representatives keep both at the disposal of the authorities for 30 years, importers keep a copy of the declaration for 30 years and ensure the documentation can be produced, and every economic operator must be able to identify its suppliers and the operators and persons responsible for installations it supplied for 30 years after the supply.

Source · Art. 11(3), Art. 12(2), Art. 13(8) and Art. 16
What happens to installations and components approved under Directive 2000/9/EC?

Member States may not impede the making available of subsystems and safety components that conform to Directive 2000/9/EC and were placed on the market before 21 April 2018, nor the entry into service of installations that conform to the directive and were installed before that date. Certificates and approval decisions issued for safety components under the directive remain valid under the regulation. New products, spare safety components and modifications requiring a new authorisation fall under the regulation.

Source · Art. 2(1), Art. 9(3) and Art. 46
Who authorises a new cableway installation in Denmark, and in which language must the documents be?

The person responsible for the installation under Articles 8 and 9 is the building owner (bygherren), who must apply to Erhvervsstyrelsen for approval before the installation is put into use. The cableway order named Sikkerhedsstyrelsen until executive order nr. 490 of 28 May 2026 replaced the name throughout with effect from 30 May 2026; Sikkerhedsstyrelsen itself became part of Erhvervsstyrelsen in January 2026. The safety report, the EU declaration of conformity, the other conformity documents and the documentation on the characteristics of the installation must be sent no later than the start of construction, and the first three must be in Danish or English. A new application is needed after every significant modification — an extension, a dismantling, a relocation or any other change affecting the construction, the safety characteristics or the safety profile — but not for minor changes that keep the scope and the integrity of the installation so that it still complies with the rules that applied when it was originally built. Instructions and safety information must be in Danish; the EU declaration of conformity, contact details and other required documents may be in Danish or English. Erhvervsstyrelsen also designates the Danish notified bodies, which must be accredited by DANAK.

Source · § 5 to § 10SourceSource · § 1, nr. 3
What must appear on a subsystem or safety component and its documents?

The CE marking followed by the notified-body number, a type, batch or serial number or other identifier, the manufacturer's name, registered trade name or trade mark and a single postal contact address, and the importer's name and address where the product is imported, all in a language easily understood by users and authorities. Where the size or nature of the product does not allow it, the identifiers and addresses go on the packaging or in an accompanying document. Each product is accompanied by a copy of the EU declaration of conformity, or one copy per batch or consignment delivered to a single operator, and by instructions and safety information in the language the Member State determines.

Source · Art. 11(5) to Art. 11(7), Art. 13(3), Art. 13(4) and Art. 21
What do the emergency procedures added by Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 change?

From 29 May 2026 Chapter Va applies, but only to subsystems and safety components designated as crisis-relevant goods, only while an internal market emergency mode under Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 is active and only after the Commission has adopted the activating implementing act. During such a period notified bodies prioritise applications for those products, a Member State may authorise placing on the market or incorporation of a specific product without the notified-body procedure and without CE marking if compliance with Annex II is demonstrated otherwise, the Commission may list standards or set common specifications that give a presumption of conformity, and market surveillance of the listed products is prioritised with mutual assistance between authorities. In Denmark, a subsystem or safety component covered by an implementing act that extends such an authorisation must carry the information that it is placed on the market as a crisis-relevant good, clearly and in Danish or English (executive order nr. 2517, § 8, stk. 2, inserted by executive order nr. 490 of 28 May 2026).

Source · Art. 43a to Art. 43eSource · Art. 2 and Art. 7Source · § 1, nr. 4

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  2. Regulation (EU) 2016/424 as published in OJ L 81, 31 March 2016 (EUR-Lex) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0424
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  13. Sikkerhedsstyrelsen skal markedsovervåge produkter på maskinområdet, news of 21 November 2018 on the transfer from Arbejdstilsynet (Sikkerhedsstyrelsen) https://www.sik.dk/om-os/sik/nyheder/sikkerhedsstyrelsen-skal-markedsovervage-produkter-pa-maskinomradet

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Written from the official text on EUR-Lex and the Commission’s guidance, with a source for every fact. It is not legal advice.

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