1. Obligations under essential health and safety requirements apply only where the lift or safety component is subject to the hazard in question when used as intended by the installer of the lift or the manufacturer of the safety components.
2. The essential health and safety requirements contained in the Directive are imperatives. However, given the present state of the art, the objectives which they lay down may not be attainable. In such cases, and to the greatest extent possible, the lift or safety components must be designed and built in such a way as to approximate to those objectives.
3. The safety-component manufacturer and the installer of the lift are under an obligation to assess the hazards in order to identify all those which apply to their products; they must then design and construct them taking account of the assessment.
4. In accordance with Article 14, the essential requirements laid down in Directive 89/106/EEC(1) not included in this Directive, apply to lifts.
Council Directive 89/106/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administative provisions of the Member States relating to construction products (OJ No. L40, 11.2.89, p.12) has been implemented in the United Kingdom by S.I. 1991/1620 and the Essential Requirements laid down in that Directive are set out in Schedule 2 to those Regulations.