Lift and Elevator Codes and Standards in Montenegro
New lifts and lift safety components are placed on the market under the Rulebook on technical requirements for safety of lifts adopted by the Ministry of Energy and Mining on 18 May 2026 under the Law on technical requirements for products and conformity assessment; it transposes Directive 2014/33/EU, applies six months after entry into force and replaces the 2017 rulebook (Sl. list CG 74/17). Lifts in use are governed by the Rulebook on technical requirements for regular servicing and safety control of lifts in use (Sl. list CG 38/19, applied from 1 January 2020), issued under the Law on maintenance of residential buildings: a service contract with a servicer is required, and a safety control by an authorised entity accredited to MEST EN ISO/IEC 17020 is carried out at least once a year and after every extraordinary maintenance. Montenegro has adopted the EN 81 series as MEST EN standards (e.g. MEST EN 81-20:2021).
Who regulates lifts
Ministry of Energy and Mining (lift product rulebook); ministry responsible for housing/spatial planning (lifts in use); market surveillance under the product market surveillance law
Periodic inspection
Safety control of lifts in use at least once a year, and after every extraordinary maintenance, by an authorised entrepreneur/company accredited to MEST EN 17020 for at least 5 years by the Accreditation Body of Montenegro (Sl. list CG 38/19).
Installer and maintenance licensing
Servicers (entrepreneurs/companies) must make a maintenance plan and service safety components every 3 months; inspection entities need accreditation, independence, €30,000 liability insurance and qualified engineers. No separate installer licence confirmed.
Laws, codes and standards
- Pravilnik o tehničkim zahtjevima za bezbjednost liftova (2026) (2026) — Rulebook on technical requirements for safety of liftsMandatory · Law on technical requirements for products and conformity assessment (Sl. list CG 53/11, 3/23, 39/26), Art. 6(1) · Ministry of Energy and Mining of Montenegro
- Sl. list CG 38/19 (2019) — Rulebook on technical requirements for regular servicing and safety control of lifts in useMandatory · Law on maintenance of residential buildings (Sl. list CG 41/16, 84/18), Art. 10(4) · Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism
- Sl. list CG 74/17 (2017) — Previous rulebook on technical requirements for safety of liftsSuperseded · Government of Montenegro (ministry)
- MEST EN 81-20 (2021) — Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts – Lifts for the transport of persons and goods – Part 20: Passenger and goods passenger liftsHarmonised (presumption of conformity) · 2026 lift rulebook · ISME adopting CEN
Lift associations and bodies
- Ministry of Energy and Mining
- Institute for Standardization of Montenegro (ISME)
Last verified 2026-10-17. Standards are copyrighted: we list which one applies and its legal status, not its text.