re: I have no issues with setting standards . . .
. . . but I believe the standards should apply to new playground structures. Tearing a funtioning site down functioning, non-threatening systems just to have it rebuilt to a newly accepted standard sounds -- expensive.
The story centers upon a single village, but I wonder how many swing sets now have to come down across the EU, just to be rebuilt...
Looks terribly frightening.
Image Credit: The Sun
The directive also includes a mind-boggling set of other rules including the distance from the seats to the frame and to the ground.
I wonder... Was Dilbert's "no-product" department involved in any of this?
Dan