G/TBT/N/CHL/499  
24 September  2019 
(19-6126) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Ministerio de Obras Públicas , MOP (Ministry of Public Works)  
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:  
Subsecretaria de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores  (Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations - Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs)  
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 - 
Electric and hydraulic lifts  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : NCh 2840:2018 
Elevadores - Procedimientos de inspección - Ascensores eléctricos e hidráulicos  (Chilean 
Standard (NCh) No. 2840:2018, Lifts - Inspection proce dures - Electric and hydraulic lifts) 
(88 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Chilean Standard establishes the inspection 
procedure for electric and hydraulic lifts, with the aim of verifying the operational safety 
conditions, regar dless of the date on which and the legal framework under which they 
were put into service . It applies to lifts with a speed exceeding 0.15 m/s and whose 
inclination to the vertical does not exceed 15°.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of u rgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety ; Quality requirements.  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Chilean Standard NCh440/1:2000, 1 Construcción - Elevadores - Requisitos de 
seguridad e instalación - Parte 1 : Ascensores y montacargas eléctricos ; 
• Chilean Standard NCh440/2:2001, 2 Construcción - Elevadores - Requisitos de 
seguridad e instalación - Parte 2 : Ascensores y montacargas hidráulicos ; 
• Chilean Standard NCh440/1:2014, Requisitos de seguridad para la construcción 
e inst alación de ascensores - Parte 1 : Ascensores eléctricos ; 
• Chilean Standard NCh440/2:2015, Requisitos de seguridad para la construcción 
e instalación de ascensores - Parte 2 : Ascensores hidráulicos ; G/TBT/N/CHL/499  
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  • Chilean Standard NCh3395/1:2016, Equipos de transporte verti cal - Parte 1 : 
Requisitos para la inspección de ascensores y montacargas existentes ; 
• Chilean Standard NCh3362, Requisitos mínimos de diseño, instalación y operación 
para ascensores electromecánicos frente a sismos ; 
• Chilean Standard NCh135/6, Vidrios planos  de seguridad - Ensayos - Parte 6 : 
Rotura por impacto de una bolsa de lastre ; 
• ISO 4309 , Cranes - Wire ropes - Care and maintenance, inspection and discard.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - 
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56) 2 -22827 5250  
Fax: (+56) 2 -22380 9494 
Email : mailto: tbt_chile@direcon.gob.cl  
Note: To view the above -mentioned Chilean Standard, go to 
https://www.inncoleccion.cl/  and enter the following data:  
Company : DIRECON -024 
User: direcon  
Password : direcon  
https://www.inncoleccion.cl/