This European standard establishes the safety requirements that apply to prevention and fight against fire in cableway installations designed to carry persons. This standard defines safety principles relating to the prevention of and fight against fires in terms of design, operability and maintainability of cableway installations, and operation and maintenance instructions. This document supplements the existing standards listed in the foreword exclusively in respect of aspects of fire prevention and firefighting. This standard does not apply to cableway installations for the transportation of goods nor to lifts.