DIRECTIVE 2006/42/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 

of 17 May 2006 

on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC 

Article 1 Scope 

1. 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. 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 purposes; 

(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 performances;