No L 300/86 Official Journal of the European Communities 19.11. 84 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 17 September 1984 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electrically operated (84/529/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Com- mission (1), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2), Having regard to the oplruon of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas in the Member States the construction and inspection of electrically operated lifts are subject to mandatory provisions which differ from one* Member State to another and consequently hinder trade in such lifts; whereas it is therefore necessary to approximate these provisions; Whereas the rules concerning installation, the tests. carried out at the time of inspection before entry into service and the performance checks on these applicances affect their manufacture; whereas such rules differ from one Member State to another and must therefore also be harmonized; Whereas Council Directive 84/528/EEC of 17 Sep- tember 1984 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to common provisions for lifting and mechanical handling appliances (*) has laid down in particular the procedures for EEC type-examination and EEC inspection “for these appliances; whereas, according to that Directive, it is necessary to lay down the technical requirements which electrically operated lifts and their essential components (locking devices, landing doors, overspeed governors, safety gears, hydraulic buffers) must satisfy in order to be freely ‘imported, marketed and used after having undergone the requisite inspections and bearing accordingly the required marks and signs, (1) OJ No C 221, 29.9. 1975, p. 1. () OJ No C7,12.1.1976, p. 37. (3). O] No C 131, 12. 6. 1976, p. 31. (4) See page 72 of this Official Journal. HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE.: Article 1 1. This Directive shall apply to permanently installed electrically operated hoisting appliances serving specific levels, having a car designed for the transport of persons or of persons and goods, suspended by ropes or chains and moving at least partially between guides which are vertical or inclined at an angle of less than 15° to the vertical, hereinafter referred to as ‘lifts’. 2. This Directive shall not apply to: — lifts specially designed for military or research purposes, or those used as equxpment on shlps, on offshore prospecting and drilling rigs, in mines or for the handling of radioactive materials, — lifts intended exclusively for the transport of goods, — passenger, goods or service lifts not driven by an electric motor, appliances actuated by fluids (such as oil and hydraulic lifts), or any of the following hoisting appliances: paternosters, rack-and-pinion elevators, screw-driven elevators, theatre elevators, loading appliances, skips, lifts and goods hoists on building or public works sites, construction or maintenance  equipment and lifts  specially constructed for transporting the handicapped. Article 2 1. Without prejudice to Article 3, no Member State may, on grounds relating to the requirements of this Directive, refuse, prohibit, or restrict the installation and entry into service of lifts which satisfy the requirements of this Directive and of Directive 84/528/EEC. In Member States where acceptance inspections are required before a lift can be put into service, their conformity with Community provisions shall be established by means of checks and tests carried out in accordance with the provisions of this Directive and of Directive 84/528/EEC.