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MAINTENANCE COMPANIES OF LIFTS
This catalogue lists the procedures necessary for setting up and launching business initiatives concerning the activities of lift maintenance companies.
A lift maintenance company is considered to be a natural or legal entity that carries out maintenance, repairs and major modifications to lifts covered by the Regulation on Lift Equipment and Maintenance, approved by Spanish Royal Decree 2291/1985 of 8 November 1985 and the Complementary Technical Instruction AEM 1 "Lifts".
In this catalogue, a lift is understood to be any permanently installed lifting equipment in buildings or constructions serving predefined levels, with a cabin that moves along rigid guide rails and whose inclination above the horizontal is greater than 15 degrees, intended for the transport of passengers:
- Persons
- Persons and objects
- Only objects if the cabin is accessible, i.e. if a person can enter the cabin without difficulty and it is fitted with operating devices located inside the cabin or within reach of a person inside the cabin.
This also includes lifting appliances which move along a path made even if not determined by rigid guide rails.
Before commencing their activities as maintenance companies, natural or legal persons wishing to establish themselves in Spain must submit a declaration of responsibility to the competent body of the autonomous community where they wish to establish themselves in which the owner of the company or its legal representative declares for which category and, if applicable, type of activity they are going to carry out, that they comply with the requirements demanded in the applicable regulations, that they possess the documentation to accredit this, that they undertake to comply with them for the duration of the activity and that they are responsible for the implementation of the installations being carried out in accordance with the standards and requirements established in the aforementioned complementary technical instruction.
The competent regional ministry for industry shall, ex officio, assign an identification number to the company that submitted a responsible declaration.
Once this process has been completed, the company is authorised and can begin operating immediately, although it may be subject to the corresponding inspections to check the validity of the declaration by checking the documentation supporting the declaration.
Spanish Royal Decree 2291/1985, of 8 November 1985, approving the Regulation on Lift Equipment and Maintenance and the Complementary Technical Instruction (AEM 1 "Lifts" approved by Spanish Royal Decree 88/2013, of 8 February ).
Spanish Decree 51/2011, of 17 March, updating the regulations on industrial safety in the Autonomous Community of Galicia to adapt them to Directive 2006/123/EC.
