European Law Machine Manufacturing
Implementation in Austrian Law
Directives are indirect European legal instruments, subject to national adoption by member states. Provided a machine complies with these national regulations, it may freely be put on the entire European market.
Even when you design and construct a machine for exclusive use in your own factories, it must still comply with essential safety requirements, as documented in a Technical File and asserted by your resp. EC Declaration of Conformity.
As an exception to other directives, Annex I to MD puts forth many obligatory details, albeit in language far from everyday use. Nevertheless I recommend these few pages to each designer as an introduction to the subject. The same may be said for ATEX and Pressure Equipment Directives.
Unfortunately all other directives listed below contain nothing but a few general safety targets, from which no hint whatsoever can be obtained towards practical implementation. Resp. standards must be consulted for guidance.
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)
Verordnung des Bundesministers für Wirtschaft und Arbeit über die Sicherheit von Maschinen und von Sicherheitsbauteilen für Maschinen (Maschinen-Sicherheitsverordnung 2010 – MSV 2010)
Machinery Directive and the Austrian regulation MSV 2010 shall both be superseded in January 2027 by the new European Machinery Regulation.
Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
Verordnung des Bundesministers für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft über elektrische Betriebsmittel zur Verwendung innerhalb bestimmter Spannungsgrenzen (Niederspannungsgeräteverordnung 2015 – NspGV 2015)
Directive 2014/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic compatibility (recast)
Verordnung des Bundesministers für Wissenschaft , Forschung und Wirtschaft über elektromagnetsiche Verträglichkeit (Elektromagnetische Verträglichkeitsverordnung 2015 – EMVV 2015)
irective 2014/53/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC
Bundesgesetz über die Marktüberwachung von Funkanlagen (Funkanlagen-Marktüberwachungs-Gesetz – FMaG 2016)
Directive 2014/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres (recast)
Verordnung des Bundesministers für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft über Geräte und Schutzsysteme zur bestimmungsgemäßen Verwendung in explosionsgefährdeten Bereichen (Explosionsschutzverordnung 2015 – ExSV 2015)
Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pressure equipment
Verordnung des Bundesministers für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft über Druckgeräte (Druckgeräteverordnung - DGVO)