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Lifts Directive 95/16/EC
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Subject Area |
The Directive applies to lifts permanently serving buildings
and constructions, and specified safety components.
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Intention of
legislation |
To assist industry by harmonising
the laws of Member States regarding the safe design, manufacture,
installation and placing on the market of lifts and the supply
of safety components, while ensuring high levels of protection
for health and safety.
It defines the wide choice
of procedures by which compliance with the provisions of the
Directive must be demonstrated.
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Coverage |
Lifts for the purposes of the
Directive are defined as appliances serving specific levels,
having a car moving along guides which are rigid and inclined
at an angle of more the 15 degrees to the horizontal and intended
for the transport of persons, persons and goods, or goods alone
but which persons could enter without difficulty and which have
controls which are reachable by persons inside.
It also covers six categories
of safety components listed in Annex IV of the Directive.
Specific kinds of lifts and
lifting equipment are excluded from the Directive's application
in Article 1(3).
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Current Position |
The Lifts Regulations (SI 1997/831)
came into force on 1 July 1997 and became mandatory on 1 July
1999.
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Current Issues |
The need to ensure that the
revisions to the CEN lift standard - EN81 - are ready in time.
Clarifying the relative scope of the Lifts Directive (95/16/EC)
and the Machinery Directive (98/37/EC) on lifting equipment and
national legislation on builders' site hoists. Arrangements
under Essential Health and Safety Requirement 2.2 of the Regulations.
A guidance booklet in the DTI's
Product standards series of
publications is available, and also available for download
in Adobe Acrobat format.
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Contact |
Stephen Pathirana, Department
of Trade and Industry, STRD5, Bay 331, 151 Buckingham Place Road,
London SW1W 9SS
Tel: 020 7215 2913 Fax: 020
7215 1529
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