European foreword

This document (EN 12312‑1:2024) 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of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by January 2025, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by January 2025.

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

This document supersedes EN 12312‑1:2013.

This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CEN by the European Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these requests for its Member States.

For the relationship with EU Legislation, see informative Annex ZA, which is an integral part of this document.

The main technical changes compared to the previous version of this document are the following:

a) the Scope was updated;
b) Clause 2, Normative references, was updated;
c) Clause 5, Safety requirements and/or measures, has been completely revised including the following:
d) 5.1, General requirements, has been revised with the deletion of the former subclauses 5.1.3, 5.1.12 and 5.1.13 as well as the addition of the new subclauses 5.1.9, 5.1.13, 5.1.14 and 5.1.15 concerning new requirements for standing drivers positions, the design of towable stairs for the pushing or pulling effort, the marking and the placement of handles on all other manually moved passenger stairs, performance levels changed in several places in the document;
e) 5.4, Platforms, has been updated with the addition of subclause 5.4.8 concerning safety clearances for all doors/aircrafts of GSE;
f) Clause 7, Information for use, was updated with the addition of a new requirement for markings on passenger stairs;
g) Annex A, List of significant hazards, has been updated;
h) the Bibliography was updated.

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

— Part 1: Passenger stairs (the present document);
— Part 2: Catering vehicles;
— Part 3: Conveyor belt vehicles;
— Part 4: Passenger boarding bridges;
— Part 5: Aircraft fuelling equipment;
— Part 6: Deicers and deicing/anti-icing equipment;
— Part 7: Aircraft movement equipment;
— Part 8: Maintenance or service 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.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

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, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

BS EN 12312-1:2024

Aircraft ground support equipment. Specific requirements - Passenger stairs

Current

Published:

31 Jul 2024