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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) (Text with EEA relevance)
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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:
(e)[F1agricultural and forestry tractors, with the exclusion of machinery mounted on those 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(1), 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(2), 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(3):
(k)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:
(l)switch gear and control gear,
transformers.
Textual Amendments
OJ L 42, 23.2.1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2006/28/EC (OJ L 65, 7.3.2006, p. 27).
OJ L 124, 9.5.2002, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2005/30/EC (OJ L 106, 27.4.2005, p. 17).
OJ L 77, 26.3.1973, p. 29. Directive as amended by Directive 93/68/EEC (OJ L 220, 30.8.1993, p. 1).
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