Directive 2006/42/EC (Machinery)

Scope

1.   This Directive applies to the following products:

(a)         machinery;

(b)         interchangeable equipment;

(c)          safety components;

(d)         lifting accessories;

(e)         chains, ropes and webbing;

(f)          removable mechanical transmission devices;

(g)         partly completed machinery.

2.   The following are excluded from the scope of this Directive:

(a)         safety components intended to be used as spare parts to replace identical components and supplied by the manufacturer of the original machinery;

(b)         specific equipment for use in fairgrounds and/or amusement parks;

(c)          machinery specially designed or put into service for nuclear purposes which, in the event of failure, may result in an emission of radioactivity;

(d)         weapons, including firearms;

(e)         the following means of transport:

—          agricultural and forestry tractors for the risks covered by Directive 2003/37/EC, with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles,

—          motor vehicles and their trailers covered by Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers (13), with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles,

—          vehicles covered by Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles (14), with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles,

—          motor vehicles exclusively intended for competition, and

—          means of transport by air, on water and on rail networks with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these means of transport;

(f)          seagoing vessels and mobile offshore units and machinery installed on board such vessels and/or units;

(g)         machinery specially designed and constructed for military or police purposes;

(h)         machinery specially designed and constructed for research purposes for temporary use in laboratories;

(i)          mine winding gear;

(j)          machinery intended to move performers during artistic performances;

(k)         electrical and electronic products falling within the following areas, insofar as they are covered by Council Directive 73/23/EEC of 19 February 1973 on the harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits (15):

—          household appliances intended for domestic use,

—          audio and video equipment,

—          information technology equipment,

—          ordinary office machinery,

—          low-voltage switchgear and control gear,

—          electric motors;

(l)          the following types of high-voltage electrical equipment:

—          switch gear and control gear,

—          transformers

ANNEX IV

Categories of machinery to which one of the procedures referred to in Article 12(3) and (4) must be applied

1.           Circular saws (single- or multi-blade) for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics or for working with meat and material with similar physical characteristics, of the following types:

1.1.       sawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a fixed bed or support with manual feed of the workpiece or with a demountable power feed;

1.2.       sawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a manually operated reciprocating saw-bench or carriage;

1.3         sawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a built-in mechanical feed device for the workpieces, with manual loading and/or unloading;

1.4.       sawing machinery with movable blade(s) during cutting, having mechanical movement of the blade, with manual loading and/or unloading

2. Hand-fed surface planing machinery for woodworking.

3.           Thicknessers for one-side dressing having a built-in mechanical feed device, with manual loading and/or unloading for woodworking.

4.           Band-saws with manual loading and/or unloading for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics or for working with meat and material with similar physical characteristics, of the following types:

4.1.       sawing machinery with fixed blade(s) during cutting, having a fixed or reciprocating-movement bed or support for the workpiece;

 

4.2.       sawing machinery with blade(s) assembled on a carriage with reciprocating motion

5.           Combined machinery of the types referred to in points 1 to 4 and in point 7 for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics.

6.           Hand-fed tenoning machinery with several tool holders for woodworking.

7.           Hand-fed vertical spindle moulding machinery for working with wood and material with similar physical characteristics.

8.           Portable chainsaws for woodworking.

9.           Presses, including press-brakes, for the cold working of metals, with manual loading and/or unloading, whose movable working parts may have a travel exceeding 6 mm and a speed exceeding 30 mm/s.

10.         Injection or compression plastics-moulding machinery with manual loading or unloading.

11.         Injection or compression rubber-moulding machinery with manual loading or unloading.

12.         Machinery for underground working of the following types:

12.1.     locomotives and brake-vans;

12.2.     hydraulic-powered roof supports.

13.         Manually loaded trucks for the collection of household refuse incorporating a compression mechanism.

14.         Removable mechanical transmission devices including their guards.

15.         Guards for removable mechanical transmission devices.

16.         Vehicle servicing lifts.

17.         Devices for the lifting of persons or of persons and goods involving a hazard of falling from a vertical height of more than three metres.

18.         Portable cartridge-operated fixing and other impact machinery.

19.         Protective devices designed to detect the presence of persons.

20.         Power-operated interlocking movable guards designed to be used as safeguards in machinery referred to in points 9, 10 and 11.

21.         Logic units to ensure safety functions.

22.         Roll-over protective structures (ROPS).

23.         Falling-object protective structures (FOPS).