Introduction paper : Session 1: Inspection at regular intervals – Inspection of new equipment (according article 8/1 and 8/2)

With the Frame Work Directive (FWD) the Member States (MS) are obliged to introduce regular inspections for plant protection equipment (PAE).

The FWD provides a framework which allows the MS to implement these stipulations taking into consideration their experience and situations in the past.

The MS are given leeway to set other times and intervals for certain types of construction and to exclude certain types entirely from obligatory inspections..

Because the FWD does not automatically have the force of the law in the MS, but requires a legal regulation for transferring it into national law in each MS, the SPISE 3-Workshop will provide a proposal for discussion which uses the FWD's stipulations and specifies, or rather makes use of, the leeway remaining with the MS.

This specification primarily involves technical matters; in addition, legal/administrative situations in the MS may lead to regulations which deviate from these. It is nevertheless important that the MS agree with one another on the regulations which concern other MS, because otherwise the mutual recognition of inspections is not possible.

Experience which has been gained up until now in other MS is also to be taken into consideration when fixing the scope of inspection and the requirements (EN 13790) to form the basis for these.