PLATE 02 OF 20
Scope and classification.
What counts as machinery, a related product, or partly completed machinery, and what falls outside scope.
Pillar guide
Machinery scope and product definitions: Classify the product and check exclusions before applying a checklist or selecting a conformity-assessment procedure.
Supporting guides
| Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Related products under the Regulation | Interchangeable equipment, safety components, lifting accessories, chains, ropes, webbing, and transmission devices as a category of their own. |
| Partly completed machinery in depth | The test for partly completed machinery, and why connection work alone does not make an assembly partly completed. |
| Exclusions from machinery scope | Article 2 exclusions, and why purpose, design, and legal category matter more than location or marketing name. |
| Assemblies and combined machinery | When several items joined together become one machine for assessment, and who controls the final safety design. |
| Lifting machinery and lifting accessories | Definitions that decide whether a lifting item is machinery, a related product, or an accessory, with different paperwork each way. |
| Safety components as a category | Components that fulfil a safety function, and why their category membership changes the assessment route. |
| When other EU legislation applies alongside | Electromagnetic compatibility and other product legislation can coexist with machinery requirements rather than replacing them. |
| Machinery manufactured for own use | Making a machine for your own use still puts you in the manufacturer role, with the obligations that follow. |
| Second hand machinery and scope | Used machinery raises its own placing and modification questions, and the answer depends on the supply event and any change. |
| Writing a scope record | A short record that captures the classification decision, the exclusions considered, and the interfaces, for the file. |