Editorial policy: Machinery Regulation Guide

Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applies from 20 January 2027 and Directive 2006/42/EC until 19 January 2027, so the site explains both acts. How the EU Machinery Regulation itself is built is explained on the home page.

Independence and No Paid Placement

No company pays machineryregulation.net for placement, mention, ranking or coverage, and the editorial team alone decides which topics are covered and how they are worded. The site publishes no sponsored pages and no advertorials.

The site carries no advertising and uses no analytics or advertising vendors. Its revenue model is the provider match described in the next section.

How Provider Requests Are Passed On and Disclosed

The provider match passes a reader's request to independent machinery safety consultants, CE coordinators, test labs and notified bodies, risk-assessment and documentation software vendors, technical writers and training providers who work on the topic, and the reader decides whether to engage any of them.

The form text reads "Describe what you need and we pass your request to independent machinery safety and CE marking providers who work on this.", and its button reads "Describe your machinery request". The disclosure reads "Requests go to independent providers. Providers cannot buy a place on machineryregulation.net; see our editorial policy."

The form promises no response time and no number of offers. Providers are never described with approval words such as "vetted" or "recommended", and a request never becomes legal advice or a conformity decision. What a manufacturer has to put in place is set out under Machinery Regulation compliance.

How Named Companies Are Handled

No provider, vendor, test lab, notified body or consultancy is named, ranked or recommended anywhere on machineryregulation.net, including on the pages about conformity assessment and standards. Where a notified body is needed, the pages explain how to search NANDO, the Commission's database of notified bodies, and do not list individual bodies.

Cost figures come only from the Commission's impact assessment SWD(2021) 82 of 21 April 2021, always with that date, never as a current price and never as a consultant or notified-body day rate.

Which Sources the Content Rests On

Every legal value on machineryregulation.net comes from a primary source: EUR-Lex and the Official Journal for EU law, the Commission's machinery pages and NANDO for guidance and notified bodies, the national gazette or authority for a national rule, and the standards bodies for a standard's edition.

Each article and annex is cited with its act named, because Annex I of Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 lists high-risk categories while Annex I of Directive 2006/42/EC sets out the essential health and safety requirements.

The source types below decide where a value comes from and how its link is treated.

A newer official source replaces an earlier value. The text, tables and figures of a standard are never reproduced, only its scope and published concepts, with the edition designation. How each standard relates to the law is set out under harmonised standards for machinery.

Dated Status, Pending Proposals and Updates

Every statement that can change carries its date: notified-body counts, the status of standards in the Official Journal, the status of Commission guides, national rules and pending proposals are written "as of" the day they were checked.

As of 12 November 2026, no harmonised standard is cited in the Official Journal under Regulation (EU) 2023/1230. As of the same date, the Commission's guide to the Directive is Edition 2.3 (April 2024), and for the Regulation only a "temporary and partial" guide exists. Draft standards (prEN, FprEN, DIS) are always called draft.

A page is updated when standards are first cited under the Regulation, a new guide edition appears, a proposal is adopted, a standard is revised, NANDO changes or a national penalty law is adopted.

The Commission proposed COM(2025) 504 on 21 May 2025, and it is pending as of 12 November 2026. Each change to the text is recorded under amendments to the Machinery Regulation.

Corrections and Complaints

Errors are corrected on the page where they appear, and a reader who finds one writes to editorial@machineryregulation.net with the page, the sentence and, where possible, the official source. The official source can be an article, an annex point, an Official Journal entry or a standard edition.

Every report is checked against the primary source, never against another secondary page. A value that a newer official source changes is replaced.

Complaints about the site, about a provider request or about this editorial policy go to the same address.

Explanation of the Law, Not Legal Advice

machineryregulation.net explains what the Machinery Regulation and the Machinery Directive require and how classification works, but it does not give legal advice and never tells a named company that its product is or is not in scope, high-risk or compliant.

The final assessment of a specific product belongs to its manufacturer and, where the conformity route requires one, to a notified body. Where the site offers a tool, its result is indicative and shows the legal basis for each answer. Readers who need the wording itself can read Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 on machinery in full.

Which Outbound Links Are Followed

Outbound links are followed only when they point to an official or primary source: EUR-Lex and the EU institutions, NANDO, national gazettes and market surveillance authorities, and the standards bodies ISO, IEC, CEN-CENELEC and DIN. Every other outbound link carries nofollow, including the four source groups below.

• Associations and trade bodies.
• Law firms.
• Vendors, consultancies and test labs.
• News sites.

No outbound link points to a page that competes for the same topic.

How This Policy Relates to the Other Trust Pages

This editorial policy sets the rules; four other pages explain who publishes the site, how facts are checked, how to reach the team and how form data is handled.

• methodology and fact-checking: how each value is checked.
• about Machinery Regulation Guide: who publishes the site and why.
• contact Machinery Regulation Guide: corrections, complaints and questions.
• privacy: form data and newsletters.

Who Writes and Publishes the Content

The Machinery Regulation Guide Editorial Team writes every page, and machineryregulation.net is the publisher. No individual author or outside expert is named, and the site never claims an expert review it cannot name. Every page carries the team byline.

Form Data, Analytics and Newsletters

machineryregulation.net uses no analytics or advertising vendors. Form data is kept for 24 months and newsletter addresses until the reader unsubscribes; the detail is on the privacy page.