Comparison of Legal Requirements: The Machinery Directive vs. the Machinery Regulation
1.7.1. Information and warnings on the machinery (or related product)
Changes
- Requirement changed: "All written or oral information and warnings shall be provided in the official Community language(s)..." is replaced by "Every written or oral information and warning must be in a language that can be easily understood by users and is determined by the Member State concerned."
- Requirement removed: "and which, on request, may be accompanied by a version in any other official Community language understood by the operators"
Proposed measures
From: a formal requirement for EU languages To: a practical requirement that the user actually understands.
- Identify in which countries the machine will be placed on the market or put into service
- Verify that all information and warnings on the machine:
- are in a language determined by the respective Member State
- are readily understandable for users (not merely formally correct language)
- Ensure that language selection is not based solely on "official EU languages" but on national requirements
- Review whether symbols and pictograms are used where appropriate to reduce language dependence
- Update procedures for market-specific adaptation (language by country)
- Remove the assumption that other language versions are only needed "on request"
- Verify that:
- machine labelling
- warnings
- any audio messages/HMI meet the language requirement
Machinery Directive statutory text
1.7.1. Information and warnings on the machinery
Information and warnings on the machinery should preferably be provided in the form of readily understandable symbols or pictograms. Any written or verbal information and warnings must be expressed in an official Community language or languages, which may be determined in accordance with the Treaty by the Member State in which the machinery is placed on the market and/or put into service and may be accompanied, on request, by versions in any other official Community language or languages understood by the operators.
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Machinery Regulation legal text
1.7.1. Information and warnings on the machinery or related product
Information and warnings on the machinery or related product shall preferably be provided in the form of readily understandable symbols or pictograms.
Any written or verbal information and warnings must be expressed in a language which can be easily understood by users, as determined by the Member State concerned.
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