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Safety Infrastructure Project

Bosnia and Herzegovina



Initial Regulatory Impact Assessment

Table of Contents

1. STRATEGY ISSUES ....................................................................................................... 3

1.1. Policy objectives ............................................................................................................ 31.2. Alternative options ......................................................................................................... 4

EUSIP

Impacts of introducing theCableway Installations Directive (89/106/EEC)

into BiH law

Initial Regulatory Impact Assessment

in association with AENOR, BISThis project is funded & Metrology Hellasby the European Union

Impacts of introducing theCableway Installations Directive

(89/106/EEC)into BiH law

December 2010



2. GAP ANALYSIS: EU INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK COMPARED WITH THAT OF BIH 4

2.1. Regulation ......................................................................................................................42.1.1. European Union ................................................................................................................................42.1.2. Bosnia and Herzegovina ...................................................................................................................5

2.2. Standardization ..............................................................................................................52.2.1. European Union ................................................................................................................................5

2.2.2. Bosnia and Herzegovina ...................................................................................................................5 2.3. Conformity Assessment................................................................................................. 6

2.3.1. European Union .................................................................................................................................6 2.3.2. Bosnia and Herzegovina ...................................................................................................................7

2.4. Market Surveillance ...................................................................................................... 72.4.1. European Union .................................................................................................................................7 2.4.2. Bosnia and Herzegovina ...................................................................................................................7

3. MARKETS AND STAKEHOLDERS ................................................................................. 8

3.1. European Union ............................................................................................................83.2. BiH ................................................................................................................................. 8

4. IMPACTS .......................................................................................................................... 9

4.1. Costs and benefits .........................................................................................................94.2. Risks ............................................................................................................................ 10

5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................... 11

6. APPENDICES ................................................................................................................. 11

6.1. References .................................................................................................................. 116.2. Interviewed persons .................................................................................................... 126.3. Abbreviations ...............................................................................................................126.4. Overview of cableway infrastructure of BiH ................................................................ 13

6.4.1. Major ski lifts and installation plans by location ...............................................................................136.4.2. Existing cableway installations by producers ..................................................................................14

Dr. Peter Futo

Short Term ExpertEUSIP Project

6. December 2010

1. STRATEGY ISSUES

1.1. Policy objectives

The introduction of Cableway Installations Directive (CID) is part of the Stabilisation and AssociationProcess between EU and BiH. The Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between Bosniaand Herzegovina and the European Union was signed on 16 June 2008. SAA, among others,stipulates as follows:

ARTICLE 75 of the Stabilization and Association AgreementStandardisation, Metrology, Accreditation and Conformity Assessment.

Bosnia and Herzegovina shall take the necessary measures in order to gradually achieve conformitywith Community technical regulations and European standardisation, metrology, accreditation andconformity assessment procedures. To this end, the Parties shall seek to: (a) promote the use of Community technical regulations, European standards and conformity assessment procedures;



provide assistance to fostering the development of quality infrastructure: standardisation, metrology,accreditation and conformity assessment”

The implementation of the CID in Bosnia-Herzegovina must ensure two major aims:• Free trade. To remove obstacles and difficulties related to the free trade of cableway installations

and their components between the European Community and BiH. The Directive has the primaryobjective of helping to create a single European market in cableways and their components, with

the objective of providing producers and consumers with the benefits of economies of scale.Manufacturers of cableway installations and of components should count on equal treatment,irrespective of the MS in which the cableway installation is assembled.

• Safety. To facilitate the safe construction and operation of all cableway installations throughoutBiH. This is to be achieved by harmonising BiH laws with those of the EU regarding the design,manufacture and conformity assessment of the components of new cableway installationsdesigned to carry persons, allowing their free movement across borders. As of existinginstallations, it is not necessary to require all existing cableway installations to be brought intoconformity with the provisions applicable to new installations. However, the provisions of thisDirective must be complied with where existing cableway installations are modified if nationallegislation requires such modifications to be authorised. In particular, it is expected that in caseof proper implementation of CID the number of product-related accidents in case of cableway

installations will be reduced.

1.2. Alternative options

According to the SAA, BiH has no alternatives except the full introduction of Cableway InstallationsDirective. However, there are certain options open to the decision makers:• BiH may introduce the Directive urgently, or alternatively, it may introduce it only after a certain

transition period. In this case, the necessary steps of adaptation should be clarified and adecision should be made on how long the transition period should last.

• CID applies only to new cableways put on the market and safety components that are newlyinstalled. However, BiH may extend the application of the essential safety requirements of CID to

existing cableway installations.

2. GAP ANALYSIS: EU INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK COMPARED WITH THAT OFBIH

Regulation

2.1.1. European Union

Scope. The directive applies to installations built and put into service, moreover to subsystems andsafety components placed on the market. The installations concerned by CID are funicular railways,

cable cars, gondolas, chair lifts, drag lifts. Installation means the whole on-site infrastructure,including station structures, structures along the line and foundations. Safety component means anydevice incorporated in the installation for the purpose of ensuring a safety function.

The requirements of the Directive cover various aspects of the safety and maintainability of cableway installations and of its subsystems in case of various external factors (meteorologicalcircumstances, visibility, lightning, fire, power failure, etc.)

The Directive has been implemented in all MSs by national laws and secondary legislation. Someexamples of the respective national regulations:



• Hungary: Decree of the Ministry of Economy on cableway installations and on the promulgationof Volume 3 of the National Railway Rulebook (6/2003. (IV. 28.) )

• Slovenia: Law on cableway installations and ski lifts of 18/12/2003. Moreover: Regulation oncableway installations for carry persons carriage of 08/04/2005 (Uradni list 36/2005)1

• United Kingdom: The Cableway Installations Regulations 2004.

2.1.2. Bosnia and Herzegovina

In BiH the following decrees and rulebooks are in force on cableway installations:• Rulebook on ski lifts: Pravilnik o tehnickim normama za ski-liftove. Sl.l. SFRJ br. 2. str.13

(1985.godine)• Rulebook on cableways: Pravilnik o tehnickim normativima za osobne zicare. Sl.l. SFRJ

029/1986, od 23.5.1986. godine• An example for a local regulation: Odluka Skupstine grada (Sarajeva) o ski liftovima. (Sarajevo

city council resolution on ski lifts)

Public stakeholders responsible for the transposition. According to the BiH Council of Ministers’“Decision on the Activity plan for technical regulations takeover” (21.8.2006), the Ministry of

Transport and Communication of BiH is authorised to co-ordinate the implementation works of CIDas competent authority. The following public organizations are involved into the expert work aimedto transpose the Directive into BiH law:• Ministry of Transport and Communications of FBiH• Ministry of Transport and Communications of RS• Directorate for European Integration of BiH• Market Surveillance Agency of BiH• Foreign Trade Chamber of BiH• Institute for Standardization of BiH• Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH

Standardization2.2.1. European Union

As CID is a New Approach Directive, it favours European standards as means of ensuringcompliance with the essential requirements. However, reference to existing EU standards give apresumption of conformity, but their use is not mandatory.There are 23 harmonized standards on the respective EU web page under CID.2


Up to April 2010 the number of BiH standards registered at the Standardization Agency of BiH thatare under the CID Directive is 25.

1 Zakon o žičniških napravah za prevoz oseb - Law on cableway installations and ski lifts of 18/12/2003 (Uradni list 126/2003) AND: Pravilnik o žičniških napravah za prevoz oseb (Regulation on cableway installations for carry personscarriage of 08/04/2005 (Uradni list 36/2005)2Source: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/documents/harmonised-standards-legislation/



Conformity Assessment


Due to the substantial risks associated with cableway installations, manufacturers must alwaysinvolve a Notified Body before putting new cableway installations on the market. Moreover, all newcableway installations must bear the CE mark.There are only 10 EU MSs where a notified body authorised for the Cableway Installations Directiveoperate. On the territory of the former Yugoslavia there is no such body.

A selection of Notified Bodies authorised for the Cableway Installations Directivein Central and Southern Europe

Name of NB Country Notifying authority

TÜV Austria Services GmbH Austria

Bundesministerium für Verkehr,Innovation und Technologie - AbteilungII/Sch 3

Quality Austria – Trainings-,Zertifizierungs- und BegutachtungsGmbH

Austria

WPK - Werkstoffprüfung-Planung-Kontroll- GmbH.

Austria

2XM Zertifizierungs GmbH Austria2XM Anlagen- und WerkstoffprüfungenGmbH

Austria

Strojirensky Zkusebni Ustav s.p. Czech Republic Czech Office for Standards, Metrologyand TestingTÜV SÜD Czech s. r. o. Czech Republic

Certra S.R.L. Italy Ministero dello Sviluppo EconomicoE.I.C. Engineering inspection companys.r.o.

Slovakia

Slovak Office of Standards, Metrologyand Testing

TÜV SÜD Slovakia s.r.o. Slovakia

Technicka inspekcia a.s. Slovakia

Skusobna ocelovych lan - Fakulta Berg

TU v Kosiciach SlovakiaVyskumny Ustav Dopravny, A.S. Slovakia

Example: a Czech NB. An example for a Notified Body authorised for the Cableway InstallationsDirective in the Czech Republic is TÜV SÜD Notified Body. This company prepares risk analyses,performs checks, inspections and Conformity Assessment procedures for new installations such asquality system approval, design examination, type examination, product inspection and certificationaccording to the relevant standards. Moreover it performs safety assessment of used (second hand)cableways before their installation. In particular, it applies non-destructive material testing(materiology) of steel strands (ropes) and ski-tow by using a magneto-inductive method.




Tehnoinspekt: an example for a conformity assessment bodyIn BiH a company called Tehnoinspekt d.o.o. offers controls of ski lift installations. This is a qualitycontrol company accredited by BAT which is appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Trade andEconomic Relations for elevator certification and inspection both new equipment and the periodicalcontrol of existing installations.

Tehnoinspekt provides services in a much wider scope than the above mentioned: it controls thequality and quantity of goods, supervision of the construction of industrial and office buildings,,thermal and hydropower plants, plants in the chemical, metal, mining, food, wood processing,electrical, paper and textile industry, transformator substations for all levels, power lines andelectrical appliances, rolled and extruded products, castings, machines and tools, construction andindustrial pumps, lifts of all types, armature pipes and pipe fittings and other electrical, mechanicaland metallurgical products. The product control and technical protection services are regulated bythe• Law on Protection at Work (Official Gazette No. SRBiH. 22/90),• Regulation on mandatory quality control of certain products (FBiH Official Gazette no. 21/97) ,

and• Regulations on the performance of quality control products in import and export of goods (FBiH

Official Gazette No. 39/98).

Market Surveillance


Market surveillance authorities control whether cableway installation and their accompanyingdocumentation satisfy requirements of the relevant EU Directive.

Examples:•

In Austria the responsibility for funiculars, aerial tramways, cable cars and combi lifts andprocedure relating to cableway concessions and construction permits is vested in the FederalMinister for Transport, Innovation and Technology. The provincial governor is the primecableway authority for fixed-grip chair lifts and cableways not classified as public transport.

• In Slovenia the Railways and Cableways Directorate is responsible for granting of operatinglicences for cableway installations and ski resorts, for ding concessions for construction of cableway installations. The Transport Inspectorate Under the Ministry of Transport of theRepublic of Slovenia carries out the inspections in the area of rail transport, cableways and skislopes.


In FBiH permits on putting cableways in use are issued by cantons or local governments. Periodicalcontrols of ski lifts are performed by the Inspectorate on Safety at Work.

RS. In July 2010 a new Law on Inspections in the Republika Srpska was adopted by the National Assembly on its 38th Regular Session. It is a procedural law which fully regulates the inspectionsurveillance procedure, covering the work of the inspection services at the local and republicanlevel.



3. MARKETS AND STAKEHOLDERS

European Union

Although cableway installations are principally operated in connection with tourism, particularly inmountain areas, but also may also be used in urban transport facilities.

EU companies together account for 90% of world cableways industry with a strong presence in theUnited States of America and in Asia as well. The major European cableway manufacturingcompanies are Poma, also known as Pomagalski S.A. (a French company) and Leitner (Italy), thetwo belonging to the same holding. Their major competitor is the Doppelmayr Garaventa Group(Austria and Switzerland). This Group has production facilities and sales and service locations inover 33 countries of the world and to date has built more than 14,100 installations in over 83countries, among others one in Slovenia, 2 in Montenegro and 2 in Serbia.

The western European market is a mature market, where most contacts refer to replacementupgrading of existing cableway installations. Therefore manufacturers and operators regard withhigh interest the emerging markets from the new Member States and Asia. The above mentionedcompanies have a strong presence in BiH: Leitner has supplied cableways to Jahorina, while

Doppelmayr supplies Bjelasnica with ski lifts.

BiH

Due to excellent potentials of BiH for winter sports, the country has about 50 ski lifts 3 and anadditional number of cableways with no skiing application. The mountains of Bjelasnica, Jahorina,Igman, Trebevic, as well as Mt. Vlasic near Travnik are great resources for winter tourism, sportsand recreation. BiH winter centers offer more than 50 km of ski slopes that may supply more than 20000 skiers per hour.

Most ski lifts are 20 to 25 years old. Most ski lifts are operated by local or cantonal governments, by

companies fully or partly owned by local government. A smaller proportion of ski lifts are owned byprivate companies. Several ski centres operate without permits and do not respect norms.

Many buildings and ski lifts that were built for the 1984 Winter Olympics were destroyed during thewar. The Government of BiH, municipalities and private companies have taken measures toreconstruct the ski lifts and other facilities necessary for winter tourism. In order to coordinatedifferent levels of governmental and other institutions involved in the realisation of revitalizationprojects of Olympic Mountains Igman and Bjelasnica, the Igman-Bjelasnica Task Force has beenformed.4

During the recent years some bigger ski centres have received new ski lifts5 Analogousinfrastructure development projects are in the course of being implemented in other winter sport

resorts.6

In each of these cases the new equipment is delivered by European internationalcompanies.

The mandatory provisions of the Directive are concerned with new cableway installations. TheDirective offers the option for Governments to apply its safety requirements to the periodical controlsof existing cableways under national legislation. However, in BiH the major challenge lies in themaintenance and upgrading of the existing cableway infrastructure.

3 The Annex of this RIA contains a description of the cableway infrastructure of the country.4 [FIPA 2005] 5 E.g. Jahorina, for details see the Annex.6 E.g. Bjelasnica, Vlasic.



4. IMPACTS

Costs and benefits

The costs to producers / investors / operators of cableway installations / security components thatare attributable to ensuring and demonstrating the conformity of these products are composed of the

following items:

Compliance costs to cableway operators

ActivityDeterminants of

frequencyDeterminants of unit cost

To prepare a Safety Report, to compile Declaration of Conformity and a Technical File on the product, and toput the CE mark on it.

Frequency of

purchasing newinstallations and safetycomponents.

Necessary technicalupgrading to the level

of essentialrequirements of CID

Readiness and abilityof cablewayinstallation

manufacturers tocomply by EU safety

regulations.

Administrative costs

To involve a notified body. These costs are increased

by the fact that there are no NBs in this field currentlyoperating on the territory of the former Yugoslavia. For assessing the conformity of a safety component, thecomponent must be submitted to a Notified Body for assessment, at the design and production stage. Only if the Notified Body deems that the components complywith the essential requirements, can the responsibleperson affix the CE marking onto the component anddraw up an EC Declaration of Conformity.

Charges made by notifiedbodies for the inspection of installations and safetycomponents.

The operator must apply to an Authorization body thatgrant authorization (a) in the design phase and (b) after

installation, to check whether the system has beeninstalled correctly and the system for monitoring safetyis adequate.

Authorization fees

Investing in additional safety equipment, purchasingreliable installations, introducing safety relatedprocedures.

Investment anddevelopment costs

Some of the above costs are not additional costs, i.e. not directly attributable to the introduction of CID, because already under the present system operators must obtain certain certifications andpermits.

As of the benefits, one can rely on international experiences made on the cost-benefit structure of introducing CID. 7 According to these experiences, the benefits to operators of cableway installationsinclude the following:

• Cableway installations will be safer which ultimately will result in improved prestige and goodwillof winter tourist destination locations and resorts.

• Reductions in the purchasing cost of installations through the application of common EUstandards, meaning there is no need for exporters to adapt equipment to meet specific nationalstandards;

7 Source: own research, parts based on UK RIA CID 2003]



• Greater choice and flexibility in purchasing equipment.• The costs of insuring ski installations may fall, and insurance agreements may become easier to

negotiate, because legally enforceable safety requirements would be in place.

Risks

There are obvious hazards associated with the failure of cableway equipment. Ski lift accidents mayresult in injuries, deaths, and by harming the prestige of a particular ski resort, such catastrophesmay harm tourism.

Ski lift accidents occur regularly in BiH. In the winter season 2009-2010 there were two suchaccidents in Bjelasnica and one accident on Jahorina. Typical accident is that the ski lift stops andpassengers are stuck for hours in the air. 8 There is no statistics on such occurrences and therewere no lethal accidents.

Injuries arising from ski-lift malfunction are relatively rare.

• In New Zealand hospitalised cases of ski lift injury arising from ski-lifts consist of 2% of snow-

skiing/snowboarding injury cases.9

• In Scotland a review of ski injury statistics from the Cairngorm ski area in the winter 1993/94 hasrevealed that 8% of injuries involved the ski lift machinery. 10

• In a Blackburn (USA) it has been registered that ski lift accidents account for less than 5% of total ski accidents.11

However, the risks involved are substantial, because individual accidents of cable cars may injure or kill whole groups of people, or, in other cases an evacuation of the installation becomes necessary.Some accident examples from Europe:12

• 1995: Operator error causes the cabin of Muttereralmbahn near Innsbruck, Austria, to crash. Nocasualties or injuries.

• 1999: 20 people killed at the crash of an aerial tramway at the Bure observatory in the Frenchalps.

• 2000: Entering the middle station of Nebelhornbahn (Germany), a cabin fails to brake. 23 peopleinjured.

• 2004: Crash of a cabin of the Grünberg aerial tramway in Gmunden, Austria. Many hurt.• 2004: Empty cabin of tramway in Sölden, Austria, falls after becoming entangled with rope. No

casualties, 113 people rescued from other cabins• 2007: A ski lift in Les Grands Platieres (France) broke down for six hours and was evacuated.

8 Sources:http://www.dubrovacki.hr/clanak/17245/dubrovcanin-povrijeden-na-ski-liftuhttp://www.dalmacijaski.com/content/view/460/2/ http://www.palelive.com/Jahorina/Jahorina-novosti/1578-nerjeeno-pitanje-zdravstvene-zatite-na-jahorini.html 9 Source: Searching for ski-lift injury: An uphill struggle? An article based on the New Zealand experiences. Authors: PamSmartt and David Chalmers. 2008. URL: http://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440%2809%2900055-3/abstract 10 Source: http://www.jsams.org/medline/record/MDLN.912266411 Source: Skiing trauma and safety: tenth volume. Author: C. Daniel Mote, International Society for Skiing Safety,

American Society for Testing and Materials12 Source: http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/aerial_tramway::sub::List_Of_Accidents

http://www.dubrovacki.hr/clanak/17245/dubrovcanin-povrijeden-na-ski-liftu

http://www.dubrovacki.hr/clanak/17245/dubrovcanin-povrijeden-na-ski-liftu



5. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

New cablewayinstallations

The Directive is relevant for BiH, because the country has good potentials for winter tourism development. The benefits of introducing CID clearly outweighthe costs. The risks associated with unsafe cableway installations also justifythe immediate introduction of the Directive. Therefore for new cableway

installations the CID Directive should be introduced as soon as possible.

Existing / oldcableway

installations

Maintenance and upgrading of existing installations is of primary importancefor BiH. In national legislation the country has both options of applying or notapplying the safety requirements of CID in case of the upgrading of existinginstallations. This RIA has identified certain local producers of cablewayinstallations. Although practically every new cableway installation is importedfrom EU countries, local suppliers may be competitive in the upgrading of existing old installations. The interests of such companies may be taken intoconsideration by offering a transition period applied only for existing and oldinstallations. It is recommended to grant a transition period after which theupgrading of existing ski lifts should also be regulated by CID.

Marketsurveillance

BiH should establish a uniform market surveillance institution covering thewhole country which is authorised and capable to effectively inspect theconformity of existing cableway installations with CID. The rules and theresources of control should be the same on the whole territory of BiH.

Conformityassessment

The development of Notified Bodies authorised for CID should be marketdriven, i.e. the respective laboratory investment decisions should be made bythe private sector.

Informationcampaign

The competent authorities should launch information campaign among owners

and operators of cableway installations on the necessity to adapt to newtechnical legislation. Information should be disseminated with the help of chambers of commerce and associations of local governments.

6. APPENDICES

References

[UK RIA CID 2003] Draft Partial Regulatory Impact Assessment of the Cableways Directive. UKDepartment of Transport, Local Transport Policy Division 2003. Source: http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/meetings/hscarchive/2003/080403/c47d.pdf

[CID EC Guide] Directive on cableway installations designed to carry persons —Application guide toDirective 2000/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 March 2000 relatingto cableway installations designed to carry persons. 2006 — 153 pp.

[FIPA 2005] Invest In Tourism. Publication of the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency of BiH.Sarajevo, March 2005.



Interviewed persons

Name Position OfficePlace of interview

Mr. Mane Vrbovac Expert for CablewaysMarket Surveillance

Agency of BiHSarajevo

Mr. Tihomir AndelicSecretary and coordinator of

Institute

BAS Institute for

Standardization

Sarajevo

Mr. Zeljko Matoc

Assistant Minister for Telecommunications, Posts,

IT and CommunicationTechnologies

Ministry of Transport andCommunications of FBIH

Mostar

Mr. Almir Ahmetspahić Director KJP ZOI 84 OCS DOO

Olimpijski Centar Sarajevo

Sarajevo

Abbreviations

BiH Bosnia and Herzegovina

CEN European Committee for StandardizationCENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical StandardizationCID Cableway Installations for Passengers Directive, 2000/09/ECCPD Construction Products Directive, 89/106/EECD.O.O. Društvo s Ograničenom Odgovornošću (LLC, Limited Liability Company)DG Directorate GeneralEEC European Economic CommunityEOTA European Organization for Technical ApprovalEU European UnionFBiH Federation of Bosnia and HerzegovinaGPS General Product Safety DirectiveMID Measuring Instruments Directive, 2004/22/ECMOFTER Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic RelationsMS Member StateNB Notified BodyOECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentOIML International Organization of Legal MetrologyP&PWD Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, 94/62/ECRAPEX Rapid Alert System for non-food consumer productsRIA Regulatory Impact AssessmentRS Republika SrpskaSAA Stabilization and Association AgreementTSD Toy Safety Directive , 2009/48/ECUK United KingdomURL Uniform Resource Locator (Internet address)



Overview of cableway infrastructure of BiH

6.4.1. Major ski lifts and installation plans by location

The main existing ski lift facilities in BiH are as follows.

Bjelasnica. Ski facilities on Mount Bjelasnica are owned by Canton Sarajevo, operated by ZOI'84Olympic Centar Sarajevo Ltd , a Cantonal Public Company. This company operates hotels, tourismfacilities, organizes business and sports activities since the 1984 Winter Olympics. Number of employees: 140. The municipality of Trnovo gives permits for work of the Bjelasnica ski lifts.Theoretically, the Inspectorate for Work Safety is in charge of safety controls, but in practice controlsare done by the owner. Following the war one imported four-seat ski lift installed.

Ski lifts in function on Mount Bjelasnica13

Type of lift Height (m)Capacity per

hour Time/min

BX Anchor 1270-1440 900 3K1 Anchor 1280-1436 1195 4Three person seat 1270-1940 1350 12BY Anchor 1280-1436 900 4Heliport (single) 1500-1870 900 3,5Boilers (single) 1822-2067 900 3

Bjelasnica has a project plan of installing a new EU-conform ski lift built by an Austrian company:KJP ZOI84 OCS D.O.O. and the Austrian firm Doppelmayr signed a contract of delivery for installinga cabin cable car, leading from the holiday resort Babin Do to the peak of Bjelasnica.

Mount Jahorina has also a wide range of ski lifts. In 2009 year Jahorina installed two large importedsix seat lifts. Regular periodical safety controls are well organized.

Capacity of existing ski lifts on Mount Jahorina in 200714

Ski lift Person/ hour Vertical distance covered(m)

Poljice 2-chair 1200 364Ogorjelica I 2-chair 1200 320Ogorjelica II 2-chair 1200 319Skočine 2-chair 1200 368Poljice draglift 600 129Rajska dolina draglift 900 109Olimpik draglift 900 196

The above ski lifts may transport 3200 skiers per day

Mount Igman is a a smaller ski centre. (2 bigger ski lifts, both with capacity of 1200 persons per hour).

The Kladanj ski lift is located 800 meters away from downtown. Its length is 1700 meters and has acapacity of 1.200 skiers per hour.

On Mount Vlasic the existing ski lift facilities are as follows:15

• Double ski lift Babanovac 1,400 + 700 skiers per hour (1,150 m)

13 Source: http://www.bjelasnica.ba/ski-center-en14 Source: Tourism Master Plan Jahorina. Sarajevo, September 2007. URL: http://www.vladars.net/sr-SP-Cyrl/Vlada/Ministarstva/MTT/PPP/Documents/TOURISM%20MASTER%20PLAN%20JAHORINA.pdf 15 Source: http://www.tourismroi.com/InteriorInvest.aspx?id=34012

http://www.bjelasnica.ba/ski-center-en

http://www.bjelasnica.ba/ski-center-en



• Ski lift Ugar 800 skiers per hour (750 m)• Ski lift Markovac 1300 skiers per hour (900 m)• Ski lift Visovi 900 skiers per hour (900 m)• Two Baby ski lifts 300 skiers per hour (200 m)

Vlasic plans. In 2007 the representatives of a local tourism investment company (Ozon d.o.o.) havesigned an agreement with the Austrian-Swiss ski lift producer company Doppelmeyer Group on the

procurement of a ski-lift with a capacity of 2500 skiers per hour at Vlasic. The City Council of Travnikhas approved the plan only in May, 2010, but an additional permit from the cantonal government of Central Bosnia Canton is also needed. The starting station will be located in Markovac, at thealtitude of 1470 meters, while the final station will be on the mountain top Pavao, at the altitude of 1807 meters. The value of investments is over five million KM.

On other mountains (e.g. Blidinje, Kupres) there are 2 or 3 lifts.

6.4.2. Existing cableway installations by producers

Dalekovod - Tvornica TKS Doboj. This company is majority owned by Dalekovod d.d. Zagreb. Thecompany has installed ski lifts all over the republics of the former Yugoslavia. The companyproduces and exports transmission lines, transmission poles, lighting pylons and various metalstructures. The company also constructs cable cars and ski lifts, an activity which involves design,manufacturing, construction and assembly, trial runs and employee training. A selection of cableways and ski lifts built by Dalekovod-Tvornica on the territory of BiH are as follows:

• Jahorina (Skočine, Rezervoar, Ogorjelica,Rajska Dolina, Poljice)

• Bjelašnica (Crni Vrh, Babin Do 1 i 2, Kotlovi,Heliodrom, Kolijevka)

• Igman (Malo Polje, Veliko Polje)• Zenica (Smetovi)•

Čajniče (Stražica)• Bosanski Petrovac (Oštrelj)

• Zavidovići (Tajan)• Sokolac (Puhovac)• Kupres (Čajuša)• Kladanj (Karaula)• Bosanski Grahovo (Borovača)• Kozara (Mrakovica)

• Trebević (Dovlići)• Vlašić (Baby 2)

Energoinvest, d.d. - Sarajevo, is a significant engineering company with dominant export orientation.One of the business lines offered by the company is the design and realization of vertical transportsystem such as ski-lifts, cable cars and industrial cable-ways