accreditation — accreditation as defined in point 10 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 (14)

authorised representative — 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 (8)

carrier — a part of the lift by which persons and/or goods are supported in order to be lifted or lowered (2)

CE marking — a marking by which the installer or the manufacturer indicates that the lift or safety component for lifts are in conformity with the applicable requirements set out in Union harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing (21)

conformity assessment — 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 (16)

conformity assessment body — a body that performs conformity assessment activities including calibration, testing, certification and inspection (17)

distributor — 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 (10)

economic operators — the installer, the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor (11)

harmonised standard — harmonised standard as defined in point (c) of point 1 of Article 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 (13)

importer — any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a safety component for lifts from a third country on the Union market (9)

installer — the natural or legal person who takes responsibility for the design, manufacture, installation and placing on the market of the lift (6)

lift — 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 (1)

making available on the market — 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 (4)

manufacturer — 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 (7)

model lift — 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 (3)

national accreditation body — national accreditation body as defined in point 11 of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 (15)

placing on the market — the first making available on the market of a safety component for lifts, or the supply of a lift for use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge (5)

technical specification — a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by a lift or a safety component for lifts (12)

Union harmonisation legislation — any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products (20)

withdrawal — any measure aimed at preventing a safety component for lifts in the supply chain from being made available on the market (19)