The Lifts Regulations 2016

All economic operators

Translation of declaration of conformity

43.—(1) Before placing a lift on the market or making a safety component for lifts available on the market, an economic operator must ensure that the EU declaration of conformity is prepared in, or translated into, the language required by the member State in which the lift is to be placed on the market or the safety component for lifts is to be made available on the market.

(2) Where the lift is to be placed on the market or the safety component for lifts is to be made available on the market in the United Kingdom, the language required is English.

Identification of economic operators

44.—(1) An economic operator (“E”), who receives a request in relation to a safety component for lifts from the market surveillance authority before the end of the relevant period, must, within such period as the authority may specify, identify to the authority—

(a) any other economic operator who has supplied E with the safety component for lifts; and

(b) any other economic operator to whom E has supplied the safety component for lifts.

(2) The relevant period is—

(a) for the information in paragraph (1)(a), a period of 10 years beginning on the day on which E was supplied with the safety component for lifts;

(b) for the information in paragraph (1)(b), a period of10 years beginning on the day on which E supplied the safety component for lifts.

Prohibition on improper use of CE marking

45.—(1) An economic operator must not affix the CE marking to a lift or a safety component for lifts unless—

(a) that economic operator is the installer or the manufacturer; and

(b) the conformity of the lift or the safety component for lifts with the essential health and safety requirements has been demonstrated by a relevant conformity assessment procedure.

(2) An economic operator must not affix a marking to a lift or a safety component for lifts (other than the CE marking) which purports to attest that the lift or the safety component for lifts is in conformity with the essential health and safety requirements.

(3) An economic operator must not affix to a lift or a safety component for lifts a marking, sign or inscription which is likely to mislead any other person as to the meaning or form of the CE marking.

(4) An economic operator must not affix to a lift or a safety component for lifts any other marking if the visibility, legibility and meaning of the CE marking would be impaired as a result.