Lift and Elevator Codes and Standards in Vatican City
Vatican City State has no dedicated lift law. The only lift provision found is Article 16 of the Governatorato's 2008 technical regulation implementing Law n. LIV of 10 December 2007 on workers' health and safety: lifts and goods lifts must be designed, built, installed, verified and maintained to current good practice, and those that comply with Italy's DPR 30 April 1999 n. 162 are deemed compliant. Equipment must be kept in order with periodic checks on the timetable in Annex VII of Italian D.Lgs. 81/2008, and CE/UNI/EN/ISO-marked equipment is recognised. Under Law LXXI of 2008 Italian law applies only as a supplementary source after formal reception, so the Italian lift regime does not apply automatically.
Who regulates lifts
Governatorato dello Stato della Città del Vaticano: Direzione dei Servizi Tecnici (technical criteria) and the Servizio per la Sicurezza e la Salute dei Lavoratori (S.S.L.) for workplace safety
Periodic inspection
No lift-specific inspection interval found. The 2008 regulation (art. 11.6) requires periodic revisions and checks per the relevant technical rules, with timing per the table in Annex VII of Italian D.Lgs. 81/2008.
Installer and maintenance licensing
No installer or maintainer licensing scheme found. The 2008 regulation applies its safety rules to staff of outside contractors.
Laws, codes and standards
- Legge n. LIV (2007) — Law on protection of workers' health and safety in the workplaceMandatory · Legge fondamentale dello Stato della Città del Vaticano · Pontificia Commissione per lo Stato della Città del Vaticano
- Legge n. LXXI (2008) — Law on the sources of lawMandatory · Legge fondamentale; in force 1 January 2009 · Pope / Pontificia Commissione per lo Stato della Città del Vaticano
- DPR 30 aprile 1999, n. 162 (Italy) (1999) — Italian regulation on lifts (implementing the Lifts Directive), used as presumption of conformityReferenced by law · Art. 16(2) of the 2008 Vatican technical regulation · Italian Republic
- Regolamento tecnico e di attuazione della Legge n. LIV (2008), art. 16 (2008) — Technical and implementing regulation on protection of workers' health and safety in the workplaceMandatory · Legge n. LIV del 10 dicembre 2007 · Presidenza del Governatorato dello Stato della Città del Vaticano
Lift associations and bodies
- Directorate of Technical Services, Governorate of Vatican City State
- Service for Workers' Health and Safety in the Workplace (S.S.L.)
Last verified 2026-10-17. Standards are copyrighted: we list which one applies and its legal status, not its text.