- accreditation
means accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- authorised representative
means any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from an installer or a manufacturer to act on his behalf in relation to specified tasks;
- carrier
means a part of the lift by which persons and/or goods are supported in order to be lifted or lowered;
- conformity assessment
means the process demonstrating whether the essential health and safety requirements of this Directive relating to a lift or a safety component for lifts have been fulfilled;
- conformity assessment body
means a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;
- crisis-relevant goods
means crisis-relevant goods as defined in Article 3, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- distributor
means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a safety component for lifts available on the market;
- economic operators
means the installer, the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor;
- harmonised standard
means harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
- importer
means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a safety component for lifts from a third country on the Union market;
- installer
means the natural or legal person who takes responsibility for the design, manufacture, installation and placing on the market of the lift;
- internal market emergency mode
means internal market emergency mode as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.
- lift
means a lifting appliance serving specific levels, having a carrier moving along guides which are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal, or a lifting appliance moving along a fixed course even where it does not move along rigid guides;
- making available on the market
means any supply of a safety component for lifts for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
- manufacturer
means any natural or legal person who manufactures a safety component for lifts or has a safety component for lifts designed or manufactured, and markets it under his name or trade mark;
- model lift
means a representative lift whose technical documentation shows the way in which the essential health and safety requirements set out in Annex I will be met for lifts which conform to the model lift defined by objective parameters and which uses identical safety components for lifts;
- national accreditation body
means national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- placing on the market
means:
- technical specification
means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a lift or a safety component for lifts;
- Union harmonisation legislation
means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;
- withdrawal
means any measure aimed at preventing a safety component for lifts in the supply chain from being made available on the market;