EUROPA - EU law and publications - EUR-Lex - EUR-Lex - 32006L0042 - EN - 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) // 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) // Essential health and safety requirements relating to the the design and construction of machinery // Declarations // CE marking // Categories of machinery to which one of the procedures referred to in Article 12(3) and (4) must be applied // Indicative list of ...[+++] the safety components referred to in Article 2(c) // Assembly instructions for partly completed machinery // Assessment of conformity with internal checks on the manufacture of machinery // EC type-examination // Full quality assurance // Minimum criteria to be taken into account by Member States for the notification of bodies

Foodstuffs machinery, machinery for cosmetics or pharmaceutical products, hand-held and/or hand-guided machinery, portable fixing and other impact machinery, machinery for working wood and material with similar physical characteristics must meet all the essential health and safety requirements described in this chapter (see General Principles, point 4).

‘manufacturer’ means any natural or legal person who designs and/or manufactures machinery or partly completed machinery covered by this Directive and is responsible for the conformity of the machinery or the partly completed machinery with this Directive with a view to its being placed on the market, under his own name or trademark or for his own use.

Partly completed machinery is only intended to be incorporated into or assembled with other machinery or other partly completed machinery or equipment, thereby forming machinery to which this Directive applies.

Foodstuffs machinery, machinery for cosmetics or pharmaceutical products, hand-held and/or hand-guided machinery, portable fixing and other impact machinery, machinery for working wood and material with similar physical characteristics must meet all the essential health and safety requirements described in this chapter (see General Principles, point 4).

Partly completed machinery is only intended to be incorporated into or assembled with other machinery or other partly completed machinery or equipment, thereby forming machinery to which this Directive applies;