Machinery Directive (until 19 Jan 2027) (MD)

MD Machinery Directive (until 19 Jan 2027) 2006/42/EC · Consolidated version of 30 May 2026 · Official text on EUR-Lex

Harmonised standards under this act (186)

Contents of the act

• Article 1 – Scope
• Article 2 – Definitions
• Article 3 – Specific Directives
• Article 4 – Market surveillance
• Article 5 – Placing on the market and putting into service
• Article 6 – Freedom of movement
• Article 7 – Presumption of conformity and harmonised standards
• Article 8 – Specific measures
• Article 9 – Specific measures to deal with potentially hazardous machinery
• Article 10 – Procedure for disputing a harmonised standard
• Article 11 – Safeguard clause
• Article 12 – Procedures for assessing the conformity of machinery
• Article 13 – Procedure for partly completed machinery
• Article 14 – Notified bodies
• Article 15 – Installation and use of machinery
• Article 16 – CE marking
• Article 17 – Non-conformity of marking
• Article 18 – Confidentiality
• Article 19 – Cooperation between Member States
• Article 20 – Legal remedies
• Article 21 – Dissemination of information
• Article 21a – Exercise of the delegation
• Article 21b – Application of emergency procedures
• Article 21c – Prioritisation of the conformity assessment of machinery designated as crisis-relevant goods
• Article 21d – Derogation from the conformity assessment procedures requiring the mandatory involvement of a notified body
• Article 21e – Presumption of conformity based on standards and common specifications
• Article 21f – Prioritisation of market surveillance activities and mutual assistance among authorities
• Article 22 – Committee
• Article 23 – Penalties
• Article 25 – Repeal
• Article 26 – Transposition
• Article 27 – Derogation
• Article 28 – Entry into force
• Article 29 – Addressees

Annexes

• ANNEX I – Essential health and safety requirements relating to the the design and construction of machinery
• ANNEX II – Declarations
• ANNEX III – CE marking
• ANNEX IV – Categories of machinery to which one of the procedures referred to in Article 12(3) and (4) must be applied
• ANNEX V – Indicative list of the safety components referred to in Article 2(c)
• ANNEX VI – Assembly instructions for partly completed machinery
• ANNEX VII – A. Technical file for machinery
• ANNEX VIII – Assessment of conformity with internal checks on the manufacture of machinery
• ANNEX IX – EC type-examination
• ANNEX X – Full quality assurance
• ANNEX XI – Minimum criteria to be taken into account by Member States for the notification of bodies