2006/42/EC:指令适用范围

新版机械指令2006/42/EC将于2009年12月29日开始执行，其所包含的产品范围和排除条款相比现行机械指令98/37/EC有所调整，现将新的机械指令2006/42/EC的产品范围和排除条款公布如下：

1- 新版机械指令2006/42/EC产品范围 SCOPE of 2006/42/EC

This directive applies to the following products:

(a) Machinery

(b) Interchangeable equipment

(c) Safety components

(d) Lifting accessories

(e) Chains, ropes and webbing

(f) Removable mechanical transmission devices

(g) Partly completed machinery

2- 如下产品被排除在新版机械指令2006/42/EC之外

The following are excluded from the scope of this directive:

(a) safety components intended to be used as spare parts to replace identical components and supplied by the manufacturer of the original machinery

(b) specific equipment for use in fairgrounds and/or amusement parks

(c) machinery specially designed or put into service for nuclear purposes which, in the event of failure, may result in an emission of radioactivity

(d) weapons, including firearms

(e) the following means of transport:

- agricultural and forestry tractors for the risks covered by directive 2003/37/EC, with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles,

- motor vehicles and their trailers covered by council directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the member states relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers (1), with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles

- vehicles covered by directive 2002/24/EC of the European parliament and of the council of 18 March 2002 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles (2), with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles.

- Motor vehicles exclusively intended for competition, and

- Means of transport by air, on water and on rail networks with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these means of transport;

(f) Seagoing vessels and mobile offshore units and machinery installed on board such vessels and/or units

(g) Machinery specially designed and constructed for military or police purposed

(h) Machinery specially designed and constructed for research purposes for temporary use in laboratories

(i) Mine winding gear

(j) Machinery intended to move performers during artistic

(k) Electrical and electronic products falling within the following areas, insofar as they are covered by Council Directive 73/23/EEC of 19 February 1973 on the harmonization of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits (3):

- household appliances intended for domestic use,

- audio and video equipment

- information technology equipment

- ordinary office machinery

- low-voltage switchgear and control gear

- electric motors

(l) the following types of high-voltage electrical equipment:

- switch gear and control gear

- transformers