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Lifts

Placing on the Market

The Lifts Directive sets essential health and safety requirements for the design and construction of lifts and safety components.

The Lifts Directive applied to permanently installed lifts in buildings and structures and relates specifically to personnel lifts and lifts that are used to carry personnel and goods. Not included in the Directive are: cable installations, lifts for military purposes, mine lifts, theatre hoists, lifts that are installed in means of transport, lifts that are connected to a machine, rack railways and construction lifts.

The Lifts Directive 95/16/EC will take effect on 1st July 1997 and has a transition period until 30th June 1999.

Placing on the Market
Legal Notice	Lifts Regulations, 2002	LN 370 of 2002
Guidance Document
Notified Bodies	List of Notified Bodies

Inspection of Lifts

The Lifts Regulations, 2002 (L.N. 370 of 2002), transposing the Lifts Directive 95/16/EC apply to the placing on the market of new lifts and do not cover the “in-use” aspect of lift installations. Periodic inspection of lifts is a non-harmonised area and is therefore subject to national legislation.

The regulations also reflect the European Commission’s Recommendation (95/216/EC) of 8^th June, 1995 to the Member States “concerning improvement of safety of existing lifts”. The European Parliament had declared the Recommendation as an indispensable condition for the acceptance of the Lifts Directive 95/16/EC.

The Inspection of Lifts Regulations, 2007 has therefore introduced requirements for upgrading existing lifts to reasonable and practicable standards of safety and to carry out preventive inspections and maintenance on all lifts, installed in both domestic residences and at a workplace.

Inspection of Lifts
Legal Notice	Inspection of Lifts Regulations, 2007	LN 231 of 2007
Guidance Document
ACABs	List of ACABs

Regularisation of non-CE marked Lifts

Every lift first made available for use as from 1st July 2002 onwards must meet the requirements of the Lifts Regulations of 2002 (Legal Notice 370 of 2002) and be CE-marked. However, it is understood that there are lifts which were made available for use after this date which do not comply with such requirements. Such non-CE marked lifts are potentially in a state of illegality as regards the Product Safety Act (Cap.427).

The Regulatory Affairs Directorate (RAD) of the Malta Standards Authority is offering the one possibility for the responsible persons to regularise non-CE marked lifts according to the Regularisation of non-CE Marked Lifts Regulations, 2010 (LN 346 of 2010). The main purpose of this regularisation exercise is to achieve a level that is considered to be safe for the lifts concerned, thus being no longer in a state of illegality. This would be beneficial not only for the users themselves but also for lift installers and maintenance providers who are compliant with the law.

The Regularisation of non-CE Marked Lifts Regulations, 2010, are applicable as from 1st November 2010.

Regularisation of non-CE marked Lifts

Regularisation of non-CE marked Lifts - Flowchart for lift installers

Regularisation of non-CE marked Lifts - Flowchart for responsible persons

NOTIFICATION (FORM A) OF NON-CE MARKED LIFTS

NOTIFICATION (FORM B) OF NON-CE MARKED LIFTS

Downloads

RAD Downloads

CIG109r0 Registration Form for Existing Lifts

CIG108r0 - Registration Form for New Lifts

Requirements for ACABs_REV04

MSA Brochure - Lifts