Lift and Elevator Codes and Standards in Estonia

As an EU member, Estonia applies the Lifts Directive 2014/33/EU. Equipment safety is governed by the Equipment Safety Act (seadme ohutuse seadus), supervised by the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA). The lift-specific regulation, periodic inspection interval and inspection bodies could not be opened this session (Riigi Teataja is a script-only site).

Who regulates lifts

Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet (TTJA)

Periodic inspection

Escalators and moving walks: pre-use audit, then a periodic visual audit every 2 years under the Equipment Safety Act (inspection-body source, Kiwa; implementing regulation not read).

Installer and maintenance licensing

unverified

Laws, codes and standards

Directive 2014/33/EU (2014) — Lifts Directive — harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to lifts and safety components for lifts
Mandatory · EU member state; national transposing act not identified this session · European Parliament and Council
Seadme ohutuse seadus — Equipment Safety Act
Mandatory · Act of Riigikogu · Riigikogu
MKM määrus 23.03.2012 nr 23 (2012) — Requirements for machinery and partly completed machinery, safety components and information accompanying machinery, and conformity assessment procedure for machinery
Mandatory · Regulation of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications of 23 March 2012; transposes Directive 2006/42/EC (an April 2026 draft amends it to implement Directive (EU) 2024/2749). Parent act not confirmed in the text. · Majandus- ja Kommunikatsiooniministeerium
EN 81-20 (2020) — Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Lifts for the transport of persons and goods — Part 20: Passenger and goods passenger lifts
Harmonised (presumption of conformity) · Directive 2014/33/EU (Lifts Directive) via Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/76 as amended; national transposing act · CEN
EN 81-28 (2022) — Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Lifts for the transport of persons and goods — Part 28: Remote alarm on passenger and goods passenger lifts
Harmonised (presumption of conformity) · Directive 2014/33/EU (Lifts Directive) via Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/76 as amended; national transposing act · CEN
EN 81-50 (2020) — Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Examinations and tests — Part 50: Design rules, calculations, examinations and tests of lift components
Harmonised (presumption of conformity) · Directive 2014/33/EU (Lifts Directive) via Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/76 as amended; national transposing act · CEN
EN 81-70 (2021+A1:2022) — Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Particular applications for passenger and goods passenger lift — Part 70: Accessibility to lifts for persons including persons with disability
Harmonised (presumption of conformity) · Directive 2014/33/EU (Lifts Directive) via Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/76 as amended; national transposing act · CEN
EN 81-72 (2020) — Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Particular applications for passenger and goods passenger lifts — Part 72: Firefighters lifts
Harmonised (presumption of conformity) · Directive 2014/33/EU (Lifts Directive) via Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/76 as amended; national transposing act · CEN
EN 81-73 (2020) — Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Particular applications for passenger and goods passenger lifts — Part 73: Behaviour of lifts in the event of fire
Harmonised (presumption of conformity) · Directive 2014/33/EU (Lifts Directive) via Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/76 as amended; national transposing act · CEN
EN 81-77 (2022) — Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts — Particular applications for passenger and goods passenger lifts — Part 77: Lifts subject to seismic conditions
Harmonised (presumption of conformity) · Directive 2014/33/EU (Lifts Directive) via Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/76 as amended; national transposing act · CEN

Lift associations and bodies

Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA)

Last verified 2026-10-17. Standards are copyrighted: we list which one applies and its legal status, not its text.