The Lifts Regulations 1997

Regulation 2(1)

SCHEDULE 10(Annex XI to the Lifts Directive)CONFORMITY TO TYPE WITH RANDOM CHECKING(module C)

1.  Conformity to type is the procedure whereby the manufacturer of the safety components or his authorised representative established in the Community ensures and declares that the safety components are in conformity with the type as described in the EC type certificate and satisfy the requirements of the Directive that apply to them and enable any lift to which they are correctly fitted to satisfy the essential health and safety requirements of the Directive.

• The manufacturer of the safety components, or his authorised representative established in the Community, must affix the CE marking to each safety component and draw up an EC declaration of conformity.

2.  The manufacturer of the safety components must take all measures necessary to ensure that the manufacturing process assures conformity of the manufactured safety components with the type as described in the EC type-examination certificate and with the requirements of the Directive that apply to them.

3.  The manufacturer of the safey components or his authorised representative must keep a copy of the EC declaration of conformity for a period of 10 years after the last safety component has been manufactured.

• Where neither the manufacturer of the safety components nor his authorised representative is established in the Community, the obligation to keep the technical documentation available falls to the person who places the safety components on the Community market.

4.  A notified body chosen by the manufacturer must carry out or have carried out checks on safety components at random intervals. An adequate sample of the finished safety components, taken on site by the notified body, must be examined and appropriate tests as set out in the relevant standard(s) referred to in Article 5, or equivalent tests, must be carried out to check the conformity of production to the relevant requirements of the Directive. In those cases where one or more of the safety components checked do not conform, the notified body must take appropriate measures.

• The points to be taken into account when checking the safety components will be defined by joint agreement between all the notified bodies responsible for this procedure, taking into consideration the essential characteristics of the safety components referred to in Annex IV.

• On the responsibility of the notified body, the manufacturer must affix that body’s identification number during the manufacturing process.

5.  The dossiers and correspondence relating to the random checking procedures referred to in Section 4 must be drawn up in one of the official languages of the Member State where the notified body is established or in a language acceptable to it.