Machinery directive

The Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC ( recast) (short: Machinery Directive) regulates a uniform level of protection for accident prevention to machinery when marketing within the European economic Area ( EEA ) and Switzerland and Turkey.

Goals and implementation

Due to the machinery directive tariff barriers in the Union should be reduced. The harmonized European law displaces the national national regulations governing the placing on the market of machinery.

The Machinery Directive is unfolding as all the policies that have been adopted on the basis of the EC Treaty, no direct effect. It must be transformed into national law. In Germany, by the Product Safety Act ( ProdSG ) and based on it the Machinery Directive ( 9 ProdSV ) is carried out in Austria by the machine safety regulation. However, in the Machinery Act, reference is made to Annex I of the Machinery Directive, since there is a quasi- direct effect of basic safety and health requirements of the European Machinery Directive.

New version

The new Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC was published on 9 June 2006 in the EU Official Journal (L 157). The implementation in national law is carried out in Germany by the Machinery Directive - 9 ProdSV. Since 29 December 2009, the new Machinery Directive must be followed. Until that time was still considered the Directive 98/37/EC, ie there was no transition period.

In essence, the following changes were made:

  • Clearer definition of the scope of the Low Voltage Directive and the Lifts Directive
  • Partly completed machinery is included with the application. From the accompanying documents must show which requirements of the Directive have been met. The package includes a declaration of incorporation and assembly instructions, which shall be in an official language of the EU, which is the manufacturer of the whole machine, in which the incomplete machine is installed, accepted (In contrast, operating instructions must always be written in the language of the country of use ).
  • The basic safety and health requirements have been adapted to technical progress
  • Choice in conformity assessment procedures for deemed to be particularly dangerous machines ( See Annex IV of the Directive)
  • Security components receive CE marking
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