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This part of ISO 6966 specifies the minimum design requirementsapplicable to all aircraft ground support equipment (GSE), asdefined in 3.1 hereafter, in order to ensure a) safety of staffoperating or maintaining the equipment or in its vicinity, and b)protection of aircraft against interference or damage. Aninformative list of the most commonly used pieces of groundequipment is provided in Annex A hereafter. Nevertheless, therequirements of this part of ISO 6966 apply to any piece ofaircraft ground support equipment, as defined, used on airports.This part of ISO 6966 does not intend to provide all the designrequirements applicable for aircraft ground support equipment.Other requirements apply, and can be found in separateInternational Standards: ? ISO 6966-1 specifies the general, otherthan safety-related, requirements applicable to all aircraft groundsupport equipment; ? ISO 4116 specifies the additional requirementsapplicable for conveying surfaces of those pieces of aircraftground support equipment intended for handling and loading ofbaggage and cargo unit load devices; ? specific InternationalStandards, listed in the Bibliography, define the functional andperformance requirements for certain types of aircraft groundsupport equipment. In most countries, standing Government Healthand Safety laws and regulations apply to machinery, implicitly orexplicitly, including aircraft ground support equipment. Nothing inthis part of ISO 6966, however, shall be deemed or otherwise usedto supersede any locally applicable law or regulation, unless aspecific exemption has been obtained for this purpose from theappropriate Authority. This part of ISO 6966 does not apply toautomotive vehicles or parts thereof approved for public vehicles,when used on aircraft ground support equipment for the purpose forwhich they are designed.