About: Machinery Regulation Guide

The law it explains is Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 on machinery, in force since 19 July 2023 and applicable from 20 January 2027. It replaces Directive 2006/42/EC, whose last day of application is 19 January 2027. What the EU Machinery Regulation requires, product by product, starts on the home page.

This page sets out the publisher, the coverage, the independence rule, the sources and the contact route.

Who Publishes This Reference

machineryregulation.net is published under the name Machinery Regulation Guide, and every page carries the byline of the Machinery Regulation Guide Editorial Team rather than a named author. No person or company is named on the site. The editorial team is reached at editorial@machineryregulation.net.

The site is written for machine builders and their design, safety and documentation engineers, product-compliance managers, importers and distributors of machinery, integrators who assemble or modify lines, and manufacturers outside the EU selling into it.

It explains what the law requires and how classification works. It never tells a named company that its product is or is not in scope, listed in Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 or compliant.

What the Site Covers

The site explains what Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, its predecessor Directive 2006/42/EC, the harmonised machinery standards and the national machinery rules require, for which product or operator, and how to meet them.

It reaches machinery, the five related products of Article 2(1)(a) to (e) and partly completed machinery, with the 17 exclusions of Article 2(2)(a) to (q).

It covers every category of Annex I of the Regulation (6 in Part A, 19 in Part B, 25 in total), the essential health and safety requirements of its Annex III, the conformity modules of Article 25, the technical documentation and declarations, the four economic operators of Article 3(22) and substantial modification under Article 3(16) and Article 18. Standards are described by scope, edition and status, never reproduced.

Each section of the site starts at the page in the table below.

Topics Outside the Site Border

The site covers machinery law only: the Machinery Regulation, the Machinery Directive, harmonised machinery standards and national machinery rules. Seven neighbouring acts get one comparison page each: the Low Voltage Directive, the EMC Directive, ATEX, the Pressure Equipment Directive, the General Product Safety Regulation, the Work Equipment Directive and the Outdoor Noise Directive.

Workplace rules for machine users appear only on the Work Equipment Directive page. How these acts apply next to machinery law is set out under the Machinery Regulation and other EU product laws.

Lifts, emissions of non-road mobile machinery and vehicle and tractor type approval appear only as exclusions. Product shopping, consumer appliance manuals, jobs and vendor reviews are not covered. National rules are covered for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

How the Site Stays Independent of Providers

No provider, notified body, test lab, software vendor or consultancy can pay for a mention, a ranking or a change to any page, and the site names no company as a partner or recommended provider. Content follows the legal text and primary sources only, and a newer official value replaces an older one.

The site never describes a provider with words of endorsement, such as qualified, certified, vetted, approved or accredited, and it never lists or ranks notified bodies, though it explains how to search NANDO. The site uses no analytics or advertising vendors.

How Reader Requests Reach Providers

The site is funded by requests that readers choose to send: a reader describes what a machine or project needs, and the request is passed to independent machinery safety and CE marking providers. A request is neither legal advice nor a conformity decision, and form data is kept for 24 months.

Requests go to independent providers. Providers cannot buy a place on machineryregulation.net; see our editorial policy.

Where the Facts Come From

Every fact on the site comes from a primary source: the text of Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 and Directive 2006/42/EC on EUR-Lex, the Official Journal, the Commission's machinery pages, NANDO, the catalogues of ISO, IEC and CEN-CENELEC, and the national gazettes and authorities.

The Regulation is quoted as corrected by its four corrigenda and in its consolidated version 02023R1230-20260727, which includes Regulation (EU) 2024/2748 and Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2026/1744.

Every status carries its date: as of 12 November 2026, no harmonised standard is cited in the Official Journal under Regulation (EU) 2023/1230. The Directive list, Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1586, is repealed with effect from 20 January 2027 by Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2015 of 4 September 2026.

The Commission guide to the Directive is cited as Edition 2.3 (April 2024); for the Regulation, only a temporary and partial guide (version 1.00) exists.

Proposals stay proposals: the Commission proposed COM(2025) 504 on 21 May 2025, and it is pending as of 12 November 2026. Law firms, vendors, test labs and news reports are never a source of facts.

Other Pages on How the Site Works

Four other pages explain how the site checks facts, decides what it publishes, handles reader data and takes questions.

• methodology and fact-checking
• editorial policy
• privacy and reader data
• contact the editorial team

Contact the Editorial Team

Questions about a page or a reported error go to editorial@machineryregulation.net.