Why you need to act now 為什么你現在就要行動
If your company manufactures products that fall within the scope of the Machinery Directive (MD) or you are an agent (2) for such products, there is a major change imminent. The consequences of which could seriously affect your ability to do business in the European Community.
如果您制造或者代理的產品屬于機械指令(MD)的范圍內,很快您將面臨一個重大的改變,而且會影響到您在歐盟市場上的業務能力。
On 29th December 2009, the newly revised MD 2006/42/EC replaces MD 98/37/EC which has been mandatory since January 1995. It sets out the essential health and safety requirements for machinery within the European Community. The term ‘machinery’ generally covers any equipment, whether for domestic, commercial or industrial use, that has parts actuated by a power source other than manual effort. Excluded from the MD are machines where the risks are wholly covered by other EC Directives.
2009年12月29日,新修訂的MD 2006/42/EC將取代自1995年1月起就強制實施的MD 98/37/EC。它規定了在歐盟市場上的機械產品必須滿足基本的健康和安全要求。術語“機械”涵蓋了任何設備,不管是出于家庭用途、商業用途還是工業用途,只要它有部分是靠能源而不是靠手動驅動的,就屬于“機械”范圍。但如果機器的風險完全被其他歐盟指令所該覆蓋,那則排除在MD外。
The purpose of the Directive is to harmonise national laws of member states and this new version addresses many of the interpretational issues that have arisen from the process of consolidating previous versions of the MD. It also expands the list of hazardous machinery and equipment products falling within Annex IV applying to hazardous machinery and equipment.
機械指令的目的是協調各成員國的法律,而且新版本解決了合并舊版本過程中出現的很多解釋上的問題。它還擴大了相應附錄IV中危險機械和設備產品的范圍。