The Directive 2014/33/EU on lifts specifies in detail the essential requirements the product must meet in order for the lift installer or the manufacturer of the safety components for lifts to affix the CE marking.

The directive covers lifts permanently serving buildings and construction and intended for the transport of persons and/or goods. It also applies to the safety components for use in such lifts listed in Annex III.

It does not cover 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.

Lifts covered by this directive must satisfy the essential health and safety requirements set out in Annex I.

The lift installer or the manufacturer of the safety components for lifts must always involve a notified body in the conformity assessment procedure.

A notified body verifies the compliance of a product by conducting a conformity assessment. It also ensures that the technical documentation sufficiently supports product compliance. If the notified body is involved in (a) the final inspection referred to in Annex V; (b) unit verification, referred to in Annex VIII; or (c) quality assurance referred to in Annexes X, XI or XII, its identification number will follow the CE marking.

The conformity assessment procedure for lifts shall be one of the following:

(a) if they are designed and manufactured in accordance with a model lift that has undergone an EU-type examination set out in in Annex IV, Part B

(i) final inspection for lifts set out in Annex V

(ii) conformity to type based on product quality assurance for lifts set out in Annex X

(iii) conformity to type based on production quality assurance for lifts set out in Annex XII

(b) if they are designed and manufactured under a quality system approved in accordance with Annex XI

(i) final inspection for lifts set out in Annex V

(ii) conformity to type based on product quality assurance for lifts set out in Annex X

(iii) conformity to type based on production quality assurance for lifts set out in Annex XII

(c) conformity based on unit verification for lifts set out in Annex VIII

(d) conformity based on full quality assurance plus design examination for lifts set out in Annex XI

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