The Commission's amended proposal retained Parliament's amendments aimed at:
- introducing installations for urban transport where specific mechanical requirements were provided for;
- clarifying that these installations were not always linked to tourism;
- introducing the concept of the cross-border nature of certain installations and the corresponding regulatory issues;
- highlighting the importance of the choice of site from the point of view of safety;
- extending environmental impact assessments to all sites;
- emphasising that the constraints linked to the operation of the installations must be taken into account in the safety analysis;
- clarifying the conditions of application of the directive upon its entry into force;
- clarifying the conditions of application concerning existing installations where essential safety requirements were not met;
- clarifying the definition of safety components;
- introducing the concept of authorisation for construction;
- doing away with the compulsory nature of the derogation procedure where an innovative approach was concerned;
- extending the provisions to cover construction;
- clarifying the concept of third parties, including skiers;
- extending the notion of external constraints to include the specific environmental characteristics of the sites;
- clarifying that the qualifications of the management personnel involved were the responsibility of the Member State.
The Commission rejected the amendments which:
- stipulated that the Committee could amend the essential requirements in the directive;
- proposed that for cross-border installations, the Committee should designate a Member State to lead the operation.
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