European Parliament and Council Directive 95/16/EC (repealed)Dangos y teitl llawn

Article 1 U.K.

1. This Directive shall apply to lifts permanently serving buildings and constructions. It shall also apply to the safety components for use in such lifts listed in Annex IV.

[F1 2. For the purposes of this Directive, ‘ lift ’ shall mean a lifting appliance serving specific levels, having a carrier moving along guides which are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal, intended for the transport of:

• persons,

• persons and goods,

• goods alone if the carrier is accessible, that is to say a person may enter it without difficulty, and fitted with controls situated inside the carrier or within reach of a person inside the carrier.

Lifting appliances moving along a fixed course even where they do not move along guides which are rigid shall be considered as lifts falling within the scope of this Directive.

A ‘ carrier ’ means a part of the lift by which persons and/or goods are supported in order to be lifted or lowered.

3. This Directive shall not apply to:

• lifting appliances whose speed is not greater than 0,15  m/s,

• construction site hoists,

• cableways, including funicular railways,

• lifts specially designed and constructed for military or police purposes,

• lifting appliances from which work can be carried out,

• mine winding gear,

• lifting appliances intended for lifting performers during artistic performances,

• lifting appliances fitted in means of transport,

• lifting appliances connected to machinery and intended exclusively for access to workstations including maintenance and inspection points on the machinery,

• rack and pinion trains,

• escalators and mechanical walkways.]

4. For the purposes of this Directive:

• the ‘installer of a lift’ shall mean the natural or legal person who takes responsibility for the design, manufacture, installation and placing on the market of the lift and who affixes the CE marking and draws up the EC declaration of conformity,

• ‘placing on the market of the lift’ shall occur when the installer first makes the lift available to the user,

• ‘safety component’ shall mean a component as listed in Annex IV,

• the ‘manufacturer of the safety components’ shall mean the natural or legal person who takes responsibility for the design and manufacture of the safety components and who affixes the CE marking and draws up the EC declaration of conformity,

• a ‘model lift’ shall mean a representative lift whose technical dossier shows the way in which the essential safety requirements will be met for lifts which conform to the model lift defined by objective parameters and which uses identical safety components.

All permitted variations between the model lift and the lifts forming part of the lifts derived from the model lift must be clearly specified (with maximum and minimum values) in the technical dossier.

By calculation and/or on the basis of design plans it is permitted to demonstrate the similarity of a range of equipment to satisfy the essential safety requirements.

5. Where, for lifts, the risks referred to in this Directive are wholly or partly covered by specific Directives, this Directive shall not apply or shall cease to apply in the case of such lifts and such risks as from application of those specific Directives.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast) (Text with EEA relevance).