Foreword

This document ( EN 1915‑1:2013 ) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 274 “Aircraft ground support equipment”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by July 2013, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest byJuly 2013.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN [and/or CENELEC] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 1915‑1:2001+A1:2009 .

This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of EU Directive(s).

For relationship with EU Directive (s) , see informative Annex Z A , which is an integral part of this document.

EN 1915 , Aircraft ground support equipment ― General requirements, consists of the following parts:

— Part 1: Basic safety requirements (the present document);
— Part 2: Stability and strength requirements, calculations and test methods;
— Part 3: Vibration measurement methods and reduction;
— Part 4: Noise measurement methods and reduction.

EN 12312 , Aircraft ground support equipment ― Specific requirements, consists of the following parts:

— Part 1: Passenger stairs;
— Part 2: Catering vehicles;
— Part 3: Conveyor belt vehicles;
— Part 4: Passenger boarding bridges;
— Part 5: Aircraft fuelling equipment;
— Part 6: Deicers and deicing/antiicing equipment;
— Part 7: Air-craft movement equipment;
— Part 8: Maintenance stairs and platforms;
— Part 9: Container/Pallet loaders;
— Part 10: Container/Pallet transfer transporters;
— Part 11: Container/Pallet dollies and loose load trailers;
— Part 12: Potable water service equipment;
— Part 13: Lavatory service equipment;
— Part 14: Disabled/incapacitated passenger boarding vehicles;
— Part 15: Baggage and equipment tractors;
— Part 16: Air start equipment;
— Part 17: Air conditioning equipment;
— Part 18: Nitrogen or Oxygen units;
— Part 19: Aircraft jacks, axle jacks and hydraulic tail stanchions;
— Part 20: Electrical ground power units.

The main changes compared to the previous edition are:

a) Amendment A1:2009 was incorporated;
b) the Scope was updated;
c) Clause 2, Normative references, was updated;
d) more terms and definitions were added;
e) List of hazards was moved to Annex A (the following Annexes were re-numbered);
f) 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 were changed;
g) 5.5, Safety related parts, was inserted, thus making it necessary to re-number the following clauses;
h) 5.6 to 5.28 were changed and re-numbered;
i) 6.2 was changed;
j) Clause 7 was changed;
k) a term was added to the trilingual list of GSE in Annex B;
l) Clauses D.2, D.3 and D.4 were added;
m) Annex G was added;
n) Annex ZA referring to the Machinery directive 98/37/EC was replaced by Annex ZA referring to the new Machinery directive 2006/42/EC;
o) the Bibliography was updated.

According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

BS EN 1915-1:2013

Aircraft ground support equipment. General requirements - Basic safety requirements

Published:

31 Jan 2013

Withdrawn:

20 Jul 2023