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The machinery regulation will be valid without any delay as a “EU law” for all EU countries!

The main changes want to cover innovations:

• New risk related to digital techonologies (e.g. Cyber security, Software based safety functions, …)
• Re-assessment of high-risk machines (e.g. AI Technologies, Software based safety functions, …)
• Reduction of paper-based documentation requirements (Electronic User Manual)

New health and safety requirements

• Safety of systems that have safety related functions with self-evolving behaviour
• Protection against corruption of safety functions in machinery products with digital elements
• That the user of machinery products, where applicable, can test the safety functions
• Avoidance of the need of demanding work posures or movements an manual force exertions that exceed the opertor‘s capacity
• Avoidance of risk to contact in case of human machine interaction or coexistence in a shared space
• Adequuate machine access dimensioning
• Approproiate contents and format of instructions for use
• Protable hand-held or hand guided machinery products having exhaust fume provisions
• Safety of autonomous mobile machinery
• Safety belt reminder or inhibition of operating certain mobile machinery when the safety belt is not used
• Filtration of hazardous substances for operators on ride –on mobile machiery applying such substances
• Prevention of risk of contact with overhead powerlines for mobile maschinery
• Inclusion of provisions covering reasonably foreseeable misuse

See further information here.