Directive 2006/42/EEC
Modifications Date (mm/dd/yy)
2009/127/EEC
Entry into force: 06/29/2006
Transpositions RD 1644/2008 

Scope
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.
Excepciones
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;
(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 harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits:
— 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.