Regulation (EU) 2023/1230

means accreditation as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;

means any natural or legal person established within the Union who has received a written mandate from a manufacturer to act on its behalf in relation to specified tasks;

means mobile machinery which has an autonomous mode, in which all the essential safety functions of the mobile machinery are ensured in its travel and working operations area without permanent interaction of an operator;

means a part of the machinery or related product on or in which persons and/or goods are supported in order to be lifted.

means chains designed and constructed for lifting purposes as part of lifting machinery or lifting accessories;

means the process for demonstrating whether the applicable essential health and safety requirements in this Regulation relating to machinery or related products have been fulfilled;

means a body that performs conformity assessment activities, including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;

means crisis-relevant goods as defined in Article 3, point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747 of the European Parliament and of the Council;

means any zone within and/or around machinery or a related product in which a person is subject to a risk to his or her health or safety;

means any natural or legal person in the supply chain, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who makes a product within the scope of this Regulation available on the market;

means an operator responsible for the movement of machinery or a related product, who may be transported by the machinery or may be on foot, accompanying the machinery, or may guide the machinery by remote control;

means the test during which the machinery or related product 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;

means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer or the distributor;

means the mandatory provisions, set out in Annex III, relating to the design and construction of products within the scope of this Regulation to ensure a high level of protection of the health and safety of persons, and, where appropriate, domestic animals and property, and, where applicable, of the environment;

means any person wholly or partially in a danger zone;

means a part of machinery or a related product used specifically to provide protection by means of a physical barrier;

means a load where the total movement is made along rigid or flexible guides whose position is determined by fixed points;

means a harmonised standard as defined in Article 2, point 1, point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;

means a potential source of injury or damage to health;

means any natural or legal person established within the Union who places a product within the scope of this Regulation from a third country on the Union market;

means the information, provided by the manufacturer when the machinery or related product is placed on the market or put into service, to inform the user of the machinery or related product, of the intended and proper use of that machinery or related product, as well as information on any precautions to be taken when using or installing the machinery or related product, including information on the safety aspects, and on how to keep that machinery or related product safe, and to ensure that it remains fit for purpose during its entire lifetime;

means the use of machinery or a related product in accordance with the information provided in the instructions for use;

means a device which, after the putting into service of machinery or an agricultural or forestry tractor, is assembled with that machinery or agricultural or forestry tractor by the operator in order to change its function or to attribute a new function to it, provided that the device is not a tool;

means internal market emergency mode as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.

means the period from the moment that machinery or a related product is placed on the market or put into service until the moment that it is discarded, including the effective time when the machinery or related product is capable of being used and the phases of transport, assembly, dismantling, disabling, scrapping or other physical or digital modifications foreseen by the manufacturer;

means a component or equipment, not attached to the lifting machinery, which enables 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, including slings and their components;

means a movement of unit loads consisting of goods and/or persons necessitating, at a given moment, a change of level;

means:

means machinery or related products 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.

means:

means any supply of a product within the scope of this Regulation for distribution or use on the Union market in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;

means any natural or legal person who:

means a ‘market surveillance authority’ as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;

means a national accreditation body as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;

means a conformity assessment body notified in accordance with this Regulation;

means the person or persons installing, operating, adjusting, maintaining, cleaning, repairing or moving machinery or a related product;

means an assembly which is not yet machinery as it cannot in itself perform a specific application and which is only intended to be incorporated into or assembled with machinery or other partly completed machinery or equipment, thereby forming machinery;

means the first making available of a product within the scope of this Regulation on the Union market;

means a natural person who uses or operates machinery or a related product in the course of his or her professional activity or work;

means a device (other than a guard) which reduces the risk, either alone or in conjunction with a guard;

means the first use, for its intended purpose, in the Union, of machinery or related products;

means the use of machinery or a related product in a way not intended in the instructions for use, but which may result from readily predictable human behaviour.

means any measure aimed at achieving the return of a product within the scope of this Regulation that has already been made available to a user;

means a removable component for transmitting power between self-propelled machinery or a tractor and other machinery or related products by joining them at the first fixed bearing;

means a combination of the probability and the degree of an injury or damage to health that can arise in a hazardous situation;

means ropes designed and constructed for lifting purposes as part of lifting machinery or lifting accessories;

means a physical or digital component, including software, of a product within the scope of this Regulation, which is designed or intended to fulfil a safety function and which is independently placed on the market, the failure or malfunction of which endanger the safety of persons, but which is not necessary in order for that product to function or for which normal components may be substituted in order for that product to function;

means a function that serves to fulfil a protective measure designed to eliminate, or, if that is not possible, to reduce, a risk, which, if it fails, could result in an increase of that risk;

means the currently installed version of the software of a product within the scope of this Regulation, written in a programming language so that it is unambiguous and understandable to humans;

means the test during which the machinery or related product or 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;

means a modification of machinery or a related product, by physical or digital means after that machinery or related product has been placed on the market or put into service, which is not foreseen or planned by the manufacturer, and which affects the safety of that machinery or related product, by creating a new hazard, or by increasing an existing risk, which requires:

means a person responsible for the supervision of autonomous mobile machinery;

means remote non permanent surveillance of autonomous mobile machinery by a device allowing to receive information or alerts and to give limited orders to this machinery.

means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by products within the scope of this Regulation;

means the arithmetic ratio between the load used to carry out the static or dynamic tests on the machinery or related product or lifting accessory and the maximum working load marked on the machinery or related product or lifting accessory;

means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;

means webbing designed and constructed for lifting purposes as part of lifting machinery or lifting accessories;

means, for a product, any measure aimed at preventing a product within the scope of this Regulation that is in the supply chain from being made available on the market;

means the arithmetic ratio between the load guaranteed by the manufacturer up to which a component is able to hold it and the maximum working load marked on the component;