Directive 2006/42/EC on Machinery

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Machinery refers to an assembly of components or parts, at least one of which is movable, having appropriate actuators, control circuits, and power circuits, combined and connected for a specific purpose—particularly for the processing, treatment, movement, or packaging of materials—or arranged and controlled to function as a single unit to achieve such purposes, including machinery and safety components.

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Applicable Machinery Items

​ - All machinery used for processes such as processing, treatment, movement, or packaging

 - Woodworking cutting machines, woodworking processing machines, circular saws, band saws, chain saws

 - Manually operated tenoning machines for woodworking, manually operated vertical spindle moulding machines

    for woodworking

 - Combined woodworking machines for wood or manual work, presses, powered shafts, injection molding machines,       

    rubber injection molding machines

 - Machinery for underground work (railway machinery, hydraulic-powered roof supports, internal combustion engines

    for underground work)

 - Household waste collection trucks, equipment for pyrotechnic manufacturing

 - Lifting equipment for work, passenger lifts

 - Electrical detection devices, logic units

 - Guards for rotating machinery, guards for falling objects

 - Safety screens for presses

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Fields of Application for Machinery Safety

​ - Machinery Directive : 2006/42/EC

 - Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive : 2004/108/EC

 - Pressure Equipment Directive : 97/23/EC

 - Low Voltage Directive : 2006/95/EC

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Classification of Machinery

​ - Products not covered by Annex IV of the Machinery Directive: Module A (EC declaration of conformity)

 - Products covered by Annex IV of the Machinery Directive: Module B + A

    (EC type-examination by NB + EC declaration of conformity)

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