OTHER SEMINARS - TIS SEMINAR<BR>European Directive 97/23/EC on pressure equipment and its influence on CERN Safety regulations

by Danielle Koplewicz et Jean-Louis Perret (UNM)

Friday 24 Nov 2000, 09:30 → 10:30 Europe/Zurich

PS Auditorium (CERN)

CERN Safety Code D2 on pressure equipment makes reference to the European Directive 97/23/EC, which is being adopted by the EU Member States. The first speaker will give an overview of the main points of the Directive and will describe its domain of applicability and its limits. Emphasis will be put on the legal obligations imposed by the Directive and by the related technical regulations. The second speaker will present the safety review process (design, fabrication checks, testing and periodic inspections) to which pressure equipment is submitted in France. He will also describe how that Country treats pressure equipment that is not covered by the European Directive 97/23/EC. Following these two talks, a discussion will be organized on the influence of the Directive on the CERN safety regulation and on the structural safety review of pressure equipment to be used on the territory of the Organization. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Danielle Koplewicz is the technical director of UNM 'Union de normalisation de la mécanique', the French organization in charge of mechanical standardization. She is a leading member of French and European standardization committees on pressure equipment. Jean-Louis Perret, 'ingénieur de l'industrie et des mines', is responsible of the pressure equipment department at DRIRE-Lyon (DRIRE is the 'Direction régionale de l'industrie de la recherche et de l'environnement').

Organiser(s): M. Bona / TIS