- authorised representative
means any natural or legal person established in the Community who has received a written mandate from the manufacturer to perform on his behalf all or part of the obligations and formalities connected with this Directive;
- Carrier
means a part of the machinery on or in which persons and/or goods are supported in order to be lifted.
- chains, ropes and webbing
means chains, ropes and webbing designed and constructed for lifting purposes as part of lifting machinery or lifting accessories;
- crisis-relevant goods
means crisis-relevant goods as defined in Article 3, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- danger zone
means any zone within and/or around machinery in which a person is subject to a risk to his health or safety;
- Driver
means an operator responsible for the movement of a machine.
- Dynamic test
means the test during which lifting machinery is operated in all its possible configurations at the maximum working load multiplied by the appropriate dynamic test coefficient with account being taken of the dynamic behaviour of the lifting machinery in order to check that it functions properly.
- essential health and safety requirements
means mandatory provisions relating to the design and construction of the products subject to this Directive to ensure a high level of protection of the health and safety of persons and, where appropriate, of domestic animals and property and, where applicable, of the environment.
- exposed person
means any person wholly or partially in a danger zone;
- guard
means a part of the machinery used specifically to provide protection by means of a physical barrier;
- Guided load
means a load where the total movement is made along rigid or flexible guides whose position is determined by fixed points.
- harmonised standard
means a non-binding technical specification adopted by a standardisation body, namely the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC) or the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), on the basis of a remit issued by the Commission in accordance with the procedures laid down in Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society services;
- hazard
means a potential source of injury or damage to health;
- intended use
means the use of machinery in accordance with the information provided in the instructions for use;
- interchangeable equipment
means a device which, after the putting into service of machinery or of a tractor, is assembled with that machinery or tractor by the operator himself in order to change its function or attribute a new function, in so far as this equipment is not a tool;
- internal market emergency mode
means internal market emergency mode as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.
- lift
shall mean a lifting appliance serving specific levels, having a carrier moving along guides which are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal, intended for the transport of: Lifting appliances moving along a fixed course even where they do not move along guides which are rigid shall be considered as lifts falling within the scope of this Directive.
- lifting accessory
means a component or equipment not attached to the lifting machinery, allowing the load to be held, which is placed between the machinery and the load or on the load itself, or which is intended to constitute an integral part of the load and which is independently placed on the market;
- Lifting operation
means a movement of unit loads consisting of goods and/or persons necessitating, at a given moment, a change of level.
- machinery
means:
- Machinery for pesticide application
means machinery specifically intended for the application of plant protection products within the meaning of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market.
- Machinery presenting hazards due to its mobility
means
- manufacturer
means any natural or legal person who designs and/or manufactures machinery or partly completed machinery covered by this Directive and is responsible for the conformity of the machinery or the partly completed machinery with this Directive with a view to its being placed on the market, under his own name or trademark or for his own use.
- operator
means the person or persons installing, operating, adjusting, maintaining, cleaning, repairing or moving machinery;
- partly completed machinery
means an assembly which is almost machinery but which cannot in itself perform a specific application.
- placing on the market
means making available for the first time in the Community machinery or partly completed machinery with a view to distribution or use, whether for reward or free of charge;
- protective device
means a device (other than a guard) which reduces the risk, either alone or in conjunction with a guard;
- putting into service
means the first use, for its intended purpose, in the Community, of machinery covered by this Directive;
- reasonably foreseeable misuse
means the use of machinery in a way not intended in the instructions for use, but which may result from readily predictable human behaviour.
- removable mechanical transmission device
means a removable component for transmitting power between self-propelled machinery or a tractor and another machine by joining them at the first fixed bearing.
- risk
means a combination of the probability and the degree of an injury or damage to health that can arise in a hazardous situation;
- safety component
means a component: An indicative list of safety components is set out in Annex V;
- Static test
means the test during which lifting machinery or a lifting accessory is first inspected and subjected to a force corresponding to the maximum working load multiplied by the appropriate static test coefficient and then re-inspected once the said load has been released to ensure that no damage has occurred.
- Test coefficient
means the arithmetic ratio between the load used to carry out the static or dynamic tests on lifting machinery or a lifting accessory and the maximum working load marked on the lifting machinery or lifting accessory.
- Working coefficient
means the arithmetic ratio between the load guaranteed by the manufacturer or his authorised representative up to which a component is able to hold it and the maximum working load marked on the component.