Carlo Belletti (Technical Director of Elevatori Magazine)

Full article published in Elevatori Magazine no. 6/2024. If you want to subscribe, click here

2 024 was a busy year with regard to legislation and standardisation in the lift industry. Here is an overview of the updated situation.

LIFTS

At the beginning of the year, CEN accepted the Standardisation Request C (2023) 6588 (also known as mandate M/599), which the European Commission had just issued. CEN has thus undertaken to draft/update a series of standards (listed in Table 1 of Elevatori Magazine no. 6/2024, to which you are referred, ed.).

EN 81-20, 21, 22, 28, 50, 58, 70, 71, 72, 73, 77, EN 12016, EN 13015 are already cited in the Official Journal of the European Union based on the previous mandate M/549. M/599 requires updating with the following:
● application of the third step agreed in 2019 between the European Commission and CEN, to address the observations made by the HAS consultant which had previously impeded the publication of some of them in the OJEU (see
Elevatori 4/2019);
● alignment with the Machinery Regulation 2023/1230/EU for all requirements, with the relevant table in Annex ZA indicating correspondence between standard and Regulation (for standards to be published shortly, this will be part of a further revision planned for 2026; see the considerations indicated for machinery);
● definition of the lift-building interface; since the standard can only establish requirements for the ʻliftʼ product, the general requirements for the building are established by listing them in the information provided to the owner.

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