G/TBT/N/ECU/414  
13 May 2019  
(19-3267) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : ECUADOR  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2  and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Service)  
Calle Baquerizo Moreno E8 -29 y Diego de Almagro  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3825960 to 90  
Website: http://www.normalizacion.gob.ec/  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y A lfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec ; puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com ; 
aramon@produccion.gob.ec ; cyepez@produccion.gob.ec ; jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.industrias.gob.ec/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Lifts and 
skip hoists (HS 842810) ; Escalators and moving walkways (HS 842840)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Primera Revisión del Reglamento Técnico Ec uatoriano PRTE INEN 095 (1R) "Ascensores, 
escaleras mecánicas y andenes móviles"  (Draft first revision (1R) of Ecuadorian Technical 
Regulation PRTE INEN No. 095 "Lifts, escalators and moving walkways") (10 pages, in 
Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the 
requirements to be met by lifts, escalators and moving walkways, prior to the marketing 
of domestic and imported products, with the aim of protecting human safety and 
preventing deceptive practices.  G/TBT/N/ECU/414  
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  It applies to the following products:  
• Permanently installed electric lifts of the traction and winding -drum type, 
equipped with a cabin/cage intended for the transport of persons or persons and 
goods, suspended by cables, belts or chains, and travelling along guide rails at 
an angle of inclination not exceeding 15 degrees from the vertical.  
• Permanently installed hydraulic lifts, equipped with a cabin/cage intended for the 
transport of persons or persons and goods, suspended by hydraulic cylinders, 
cables or chains, and travelling along guide rails at an angle of inclination not 
exceeding 15 degrees from the vertical.  
• Escalators and moving walkways (pallet or belt type).  
It does not apply to:  
• Residential lifts specified in the Ecuadorian Code of Practice CP E INEN 018.  
• Stair-lifts 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection ; Protection of human health or safety.  
8. Relevant documents:  
Normative references:  
1. ISO 2859 -1:1999+Amd 1:2011, Sampling procedures for inspection by attributes 
- Part 1 : Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot -by-
lot inspection.  
2. ISO/IEC 17025:2017, General requirements for the c ompetence of testing and 
calibration laboratories.  
3. ISO/IEC 17050 -1:2004, Conformity assessment - Supplier's declaration of 
conformity - Part 1 : General requirements.  
4. ISO/IEC 17067:2013, Conformity assessment - Fundamentals of product 
certification and guid elines for product certification schemes.  
5. EN 81 -20:2014, Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Lifts for 
the transport of persons and goods - Part 20 : Passenger and goods passenger 
lifts. 
6. EN 115 -1:2017, Safety of escalators and moving walks - Part 1 : Construction and 
installation.  
7. CPE INEN 18(1R):2013, Código de seguridad de ascensores para pasajeros . 
Requisitos de seguridad.  
Notification history:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/252  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/252/Add.1  
3. G/TBT/N/ECU/118  
4. G/TBT/N/ECU/118/Add.1  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 60 days from the date of notification or thereafter  
Proposed date of entry into force : 180 days from the date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/ECU/414  
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  11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior , Inversiones y Pesca (MPCEIP)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 - 2272 
Email:  
puntocontactoOT CECU@produccion.gob.ec ; puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com ; 
aramon@produccion.gob.ec ; cyepez@produccion.gob.ec ; jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
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