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Eurotrans position EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

Eurotrans position EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
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2nd January 2010 EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF ASSOCIATIONS OF MANUFACTURERS OF GEARS AND TRANSMISSION PARTS Position paper regarding: The Classifying of Gears, Gearboxes, Geared Motors, Transmission Elements and Transmission Chains according to the EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC 1. Preliminary remarks The comments below are intended to provide the industry with a guide as to how gears, gearboxes, geared motors, transmission elements and transmission chains could be incorporated. In order to identify criteria for incorporation, the legal requirements are analyzed and reference is made to publications by the Commission. 2. Legal foundation 2.1 EC Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC Partly completed machinery is defined in Article 2 g of the Directive as follows: “g) “Partly completed machinery” is a totality which almost forms a machine but in itself cannot fulfill any particular function. A drive system may constitute partly completed machinery. Partly completed machinery is intended only for installation in other machinery or other partly completed machinery or pieces of equipment or for combination with these, in other then to form machinery within the meaning of the Directive;” Partly completed machinery does not as such perform a particular function. Its intended purpose is to be installed in completed machinery or a totality of machines (system), which will be CE-marked. Nonetheless, partly completed machinery must already have a character such that it “almost forms a machine”. Machinery components: In the draft of the planned Directive, the following is stated under §35 of the guide of the new Machinery directive with regard to machines : “The Machinery Directive does not apply directly to machinery components, such as, for example, valves, hydraulic cylinders or gearboxes,that do not have a specific application as such but are intended to be incorporated into machinery, although the design and construction of such components must enable the complete machinery to comply with the relevant essential health and safety requirements.” 2.2 Electric motors in accordance with the Low Voltage Directive Electric motors with operating voltages within the voltage limits of the Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC (formerly 73/23/EEC) are exempted from the scope of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC and are thus covered by Article 1 (2) k, item six:

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“(2) The following are exempted from the scope of this Directive: k) Electrical and electronic products of the following types, insofar as they fall within the scope of the Directive 73/23/EEC of the Commission of 19th February 1973 to harmonize the legal requirements of member states with regard to electrical equipment for use within certain voltage limits (3): — — — — — — Domestic appliances intended for household use Audio and video equipment Information-technology devices Usual office machinery Low voltage switchgear and control gear Electric motors;” 3. Gears, Transmission Chains and...

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5. Geared motors 5.1 Normal case: If electric motors in accordance with the Low Voltage Directive 2006/95/EC are combined with a gearbox, for example by flange-mounting the gearbox to the electric motor, the resulting geared motor will fall within the scope of the Low Voltage Directive, and final documentation and CE marking shall be carried out on this basis. The combination of an electric motor and gearbox can be seen as components like the gearbox on its own. In that case, they do not fall within the scope of the EC Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. 5.2 In certain cases: In accordance with...

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7. Contacts Your contacts for matters relating to the EC Machinery Directive are as follows: EUROTRANS - EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF ASSOCIATIONS OF MANUFACTURERS OF GEARS AND TRANSMISSION PARTS Lyoner Straβe 18 – 60528 Frankfurt am Main – Germany +49 69 66 03-13 31 49 69 66 03-14 59 ASSIOT (Italy) AGORIA (Belgium) Associazione Italiana Costruttori General Manager: Mr. Demetrio Bazzotti Viale Enrico Martini n. 9 20139 Milano /Italy Phone: (+3902) 55230580 Fax: (+3902)55230574 E-mail: assiot(at)assiot.it Mechatronical Engineering General Manager: Mr. Dirk De Moor A. Reyerslaan 80 / DIAMANT...

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