New EU Directive and Standards for elevators

Recently, TUV SUD Greater China (hereinafter referred to as "TUV SUD") successfully held a seminar on the new EU Elevator Directive and Standard at Holiday Inn Shanghai Great Wall. The seminar was delivered by Mr. Melzer Siegfried, Global Business Development Manager of Elevator and Crane at TUV SUD's German headquarters. The new EU Elevator Directive 2014/33/EU and the new elevator standard EN 81-20&-50 type test specification were interpreted in detail by Ms. Shen Zhiying and Mr. Wu Weijun, engineers of Elevator and Crane Division of TUV SUD. The guests are all well-known enterprises from the elevator field, as well as the long-term good partners of TUV SUD. Mr. Chen Chen, Senior Manager of Industrial Service Department of TUV SUD, and Mr. Wang Peng, Manager of Elevator and Crane Division of Industrial Service Department were present.

In 2014, the European Union issued the new elevator standard EN 81-20 and the safety Code for elevator Manufacturing and Installation EN 81-50, which redefine and upgrade several important areas of elevator from the perspective of the basic requirements of elevator components and the whole elevator, design, calculation, inspection and certification. At this stage, the standard will be parallel to the current EU elevator standard EN 81-1 &-2. By August 2017, the existing standard, EN 81-1 &-2, will be obsolete. From September 2017, the new standard EN 81-20&-50 will become mandatory and all newly installed elevators in the European Union must comply with this standard. At the same time, the new Elevator Directive 2014/33/EU, which was issued in 2014, will replace the existing elevator Directive 95/16/EC from April 20, 2016.

With the increase of elevator accidents, people pay more and more attention to elevator safety. As the world's leading third-party inspection and certification organization, TUV SUD has an authoritative team of experts in the field of elevator safety. From the interpretation of new elevator instructions to the on-site professional inspection, TUV SUD always escorts elevator safety. With the core concept of "authoritative certification, creating value", TUV SUD consistently provides customers with continuous, efficient and high-quality one-stop service.