Industrial | Monthly bulletin | December 2019
Europe – Machinery
Amending and correcting of Decision (EU) 2019/436 on Machinery
On 7th November 2019, the European Commission published “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1863 of 6 November 2019 amending and correcting Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/436 as regards the withdrawal of references of harmonised standards for machinery from the Official Journal of the European Union” with reference C/2019/7851.
Amendment for numerically controlled boring and routing machines
On 24th October 2019, the European Commission published:
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1766 of 23 October 2019 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/436 as regards harmonised standard EN ISO 19085-3:2017 for numerically controlled boring and routing machines.
In this decision, its annex includes the follow row that adds in Annex II to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/436:
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EN ISO 19085-3:2017 Woodworking machines – Safety requirements – Part 3: Numerically controlled (NC) boring and routing machines Notice: With regard to its point 6.6.2.2.3.1, the harmonised standard EN ISO 19085-3:2017 does not confer a presumption of conformity with the essential health and safety requirement set out in point 1.4.1 of Annex I to Directive 2006/42/EC, which requires that guards and protective devices must not be easy to by-pass. |
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Click here to access the official publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Find below a summary table with some recent standards updates and upcoming dates of withdrawal (non-exhaustive):
(*) Date of withdrawal: latest date by which national standards conflicting with an EN (and HD for CENELEC) have to be withdrawn.
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Safety of machinery - Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper and lower limbs (ISO 13857:2019) |
2020-04-30 |
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Standard Updates
Find below a summary table with some recent standards updates and upcoming dates of withdrawal (non-exhaustive):
(*) Date of withdrawal: latest date by which national standards conflicting with an EN (and HD for CENELEC) have to be withdrawn.
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Explosive atmospheres - Part 20-1: Material characteristics for gas and vapour classification - Test methods and data (ISO/IEC 80079-20-1:2017, including Cor 1:2018) |
2022-04-30 |
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Europe – Construction Products
Systems of assessment and verification of constancy of performance for balustrade kits and railing kits
On 24th October 2019, the European Commission published:
Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/1764 of 14 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the applicable systems to assess and verify constancy of performance of balustrade kits and railing kits intended to be used in construction works solely to prevent falls and not submitted to vertical loads from the structure.
The annex to decision includes two tables with the Systems of assessment and verification of constancy of performance:
- Table 1: For all essential characteristics except for reaction to fire
- Table 2: For reaction to fire only
Click here to access the official publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Recent publications by European Commission
Below you will find a recent publication of the Official Journal of the European Union related to E&E:
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28-10-2019 |
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS The annual Union work programme for European standardisation for 2020 |
