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This report requires the certification of machinery and lifts to be based on criteria that will provide greater security for users. We therefore voted in favour, even though the recommended measures will apply to new machines alone and only very rarely to old appliances.
Despite the fact that the report stresses the obligation to maintain operational appliances in good working order, the likelihood of fulfilling this desire can, however, be questioned. There have been reports recently in the French press of a series of accidents involving lifts in council flats, in which several people died. The French lift trade union stated that, for some time, it has condemned chronic staff shortages within service departments, whose technicians are responsible for maintaining two or three times as many appliances as 20 years ago. In addition to this, the standard of council accommodation is deteriorating, like all council equipment, and it is being increasingly neglected by the public authorities.
The report’s declared intention, which we support, to bring safety up to the highest possible level should therefore be backed up with coercive measures to prevent the sale of dangerous machinery and with the obligation to provide sufficient technical and human resources to maintain this equipment, to replace it as and when necessary."@en1
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