Harmonised Standardsfor

Market Surveillance of

Machinery in Europe

Harald Riekeles, VDMA Frankfurt/Main

CEN Rapporteur Machinery

Geneva, October 2002

Basis of European Standardizationon Machinery:

1985 - European New Approach---------------------------------------------

Technical Rules defined in- compulsory Directives with general Essential

(Safety) Requirements - voluntary Harmonised Standards specifying the

Essential Requirement(s)

Mandated Harmonised Standards referenced in the Official Journal of European Communities grant Presumption of Conformity

Presumption of Conformity in

Machinery Directive 98/37/EC

• Article 5 • (2) Where a national standard transposing a harmonised

standard, the reference for which has been published in the Official Journal of the European Communities, covers one ore more of the essential safety requirements, machinery ... constructed in accordance with this standard shall be presumed to comply with the relevant essential requirements.

EC-EC-Directives related Directives related to to MachineryMachinery

status 08/00vdma5-nam1133

1) Nr. o f original - or framew ork directives type approval for traffic2)

product liability85/374

"CE"low

voltage73/23

"C E"M achinery

98/37(form er 89/392)

2)

2)

Technical Committees Machinery Safety • Type A- / B-Standards

• CEN/TC 114 - Safety (general)• CEN/TC 122 - Ergonomics• CEN/TC 169 - Lighting• CEN/TC 211 - Acoustics• CEN/TC 231 - Vibrations• CLC/TC 44x - Electrot. Aspects

---------------------------------------• total 120 Standards-Projects

• >> www.newapproach.org/directivelist.asp

• Type C-Standards

• CEN/TC 10 - Lifts to

• CEN/TC 322 - Rolling Mills

• CLC/TC 61, 61F Electric Tools . Electr. Household Equ. ----------------------------------------

• total > 40 TCs with 650 Standards-Projects

Mandated Standards Programme Directive 98/37/EC - Safety of Machinery

state 09/2002

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Ratified 26 69 108 163 204 257 311 395 461 556 639 696 703 705

Under approval 120 187 230 288 301 308 297 232 203 144 72 17 8 6

Under development 307 346 316 238 198 143 111 86 49 13 2 0 2 2

1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Mandated Standards Programme Directive 98/37/EC - Safety of Machinery

state mid of 2002

• Issued:

• 430 Harmonised EN

• thereof from CEN 400 EN plus 230 Draft prEN

• 30 EN by CENELEC

• Referenced in OJEC 14th June 2002: ------------------------------------

• 375 Harmonised EN:

• 79 type A + B

• 206 type C machinery, . incl. 27 for Annex IV

• 90 type C equipment or . aspects

Guide to European horizontal standards for Safety of Machinery

>> www.cenorm.be/sectors/machine.htm

Numbers and shortened titles of the basic standards and generic/group safety standardsmost important for the design of machines.Arranged according to safety aspects or safeguards and systems - in alphabetical order -

Basic standards (Type A)

Hazard analysis, risk assessment EN 1050 Principles, list of hazards

EN 292-1 Methodology, TerminologyEN 292-2 Technical principles

Principles for design, Definitions

EN 1070 Definitions in 12 languages

Generic/group safety standards (Type B1) for safety aspects

EN 626-1 Reduction of risks to healthEN 626-2 Verification procedures

Dangerous materials

EN 1093-1 Air pollution, test methods

Generic/group standards for systems and safeguards (Type B2)

EN 547-1 Whole body accessEN 547-2 Access openings

Access to machines

EN 547-3 Anthropometric data

European Standards EN - CEN / CENELEC -

• voluntary application, but

• compulsory to be implemented by CEN / CENELEC members: national standard bodies of - European Economic Area - EEA - Switzerland - Czech Republic - Malta

- from 2003Hungary and Slovakia- next by all candidates

for EU enlargement