Lifts

 

National legislation

Ordinance on the safety of lifts

Official Gazette, No. 20/2016

 

EU legislation

Directive 2014/33/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to lifts and safety components for lifts Text with EEA relevanceve

 

Competent authority

 

Scope of national rule

This Ordinance shall apply to lifts permanently serving buildings and constructions and intended for the transport of:

1. persons;
2. persons and goods;
3. goods alone if the carrier is accessible, that is to say a person may enter it without difficulty, and fitted with controls situated inside the carrier or within reach of a person inside the carrier.

This Ordinance shall also apply to the safety components for lifts listed in Annex III for use in the lifts.

 

Main requirements that the business user needs to know about

Lifts covered by this Ordinance may be placed on the market and put into service only if they comply with this Ordinance, when properly installed and maintained and used for their intended purpose.

Lifts covered by this Ordinance shall satisfy the essential health and safety requirements set out in Annex I of this Ordinance.

 

National rule

• Installers shall indicate, on the lift, their name, registered trade name or registered trade mark and the postal address at which they can be contacted. The address shall indicate a single point at which the installer can be contacted. The contact details must be in a Croatian.
• Installers shall ensure that the lift is accompanied by the instructions referred to in point 6.2 of Annex I, in a Croatian and such instructions, as well as any labelling, shall be clear, understandable and intelligible.
• Installers shall, further to a reasoned request from a competent inspection body , provide it with all the information and documentation in paper or electronic form necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the lift with this Ordinance, in a Croatian.
• Manufacturers shall indicate on the safety component for lifts their name, registered trade name or registered trade mark and the postal address at which they can be contacted or, where that is not possible, on the label referred to in Article 19(1). The address shall indicate a single point at which the manufacturer can be contacted. The contact details must be in a Croatian.
• Manufacturers shall ensure that the safety component for lifts is accompanied by the instructions referred to in point 6.1 of Annex I, in a Croatian and such instructions, as well as any labelling, shall be clear, understandable and intelligible.
• Manufacturers shall, further to a reasoned request from a competent inspection body, provide it with all the information and documentation in paper or electronic form necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the safety components for lifts with this Ordinance, in a Croatian.
• Importers shall indicate on the safety component for lifts their name, registered trade name or registered trade mark and the postal address at which they can be contacted or, where that is not possible, on its packaging or in a document accompanying the safety component for lifts. The contact details must be in a Croatian.
• Importers shall ensure that the safety component for lifts is accompanied by the instructions referred to in point 6.1 of Annex I in a Croatian.
• The EU declaration of conformity must be in the Croatian and the conformity assessment body must be established in the Republic of Croatia and have legal personality.

List of harmonised standards

Catalogue of Croatian Standards

Notified bodies - Nando

Accredited bodies

 

Market Surveillance Authority

State Inspectorate

pisarnica.dirh@dirh.hr

 

Link to the TRIS database

In the TRIS database you can look up the notification of the technical rule