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EU Directives and Legislation

The EU Machinery Directive

Essential Health and Safety Requirements

The Machinery Directive—Conformity Assessment and Standards

Technical File

Conformity Assessment

Notified Bodies

EC Declaration of Conformity Procedure

EC Declaration of Incorporation for Partly Completed Machinery

Machinery Supplied from Outside the EU—
Authorized Representatives

The EU Use of Work Equipment Directive (U.W.E. Directive)

U.S. Regulations

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Canada Regulations

EC Declaration of Conformity Procedure

The CE Marking must be applied to all machines supplied. The machines should also be supplied with an EC Declaration of Conformity.

Figure 6: CE Mark

The CE Mark indicates that the machine conforms to all applicable European Directives and that the appropriate conformity assessment procedures have been completed. It is an offense to apply the CE Mark for the Machinery Directive unless the machine satisfies the relevant EHSRs.

The EC Declaration of Conformity must contain the following information:

Business name and full address of the manufacturer and, where appropriate, the authorized representative;
Name and address of the person authorized to compile the technical file, who must be established in the Community (in the case of a manufacturer outside the EU this may be the “Authorized Representative”);
Description and identification of the machinery, including generic denomination, function, model, type, serial number and commercial name;
A sentence expressly declaring that the machinery fulfills all the relevant provisions of this Directive and where appropriate, a similar sentence declaring the conformity with other Directives and/or relevant provisions with which the machinery complies;
Where appropriate, a reference to the harmonized standards used;
Where appropriate, the reference to other technical standards and specifications used;
(For an Annex IV machines) where appropriate, the name, address and identification number of the notified body which carried out the EC type-examination referred to in Annex IX and the number of the EC type-examination certificate;
(For an Annex IV machines) where appropriate, the name, address and identification number of the notified body which approved the full quality assurance system referred to in Annex X;
The place and date of the declaration;
The identity and signature of the person empowered to draw up the declaration on behalf of the manufacturer or the authorized representative.