- accreditation
means accreditation as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- authorised representative
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;
- Autonomous mobile machinery
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;
- Carrier
means a part of the machinery or related product on or in which persons and/or goods are supported in order to be lifted.
- chains
means chains designed and constructed for lifting purposes as part of lifting machinery or lifting accessories;
- conformity assessment
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;
- conformity assessment body
means a body that performs conformity assessment activities, including calibration, testing, certification and inspection;
- 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 or a related product in which a person is subject to a risk to his or her health or safety;
- distributor
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;
- Driver
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;
- Dynamic test
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;
- economic operator
means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer or the distributor;
- essential health and safety requirements
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;
- exposed person
means any person wholly or partially in a danger zone;
- guard
means a part of machinery or a related product 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 harmonised standard as defined in Article 2, point 1, point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012;
- hazard
means a potential source of injury or damage to health;
- importer
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;
- instructions for use
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;
- intended use
means the use of machinery or a related product 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 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;
- internal market emergency mode
means internal market emergency mode as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2024/2747.
- lifetime
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;
- lifting accessory
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;
- 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 or related products for plant protection products application
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.
- Machinery or related products presenting risks due to their mobility
means:
- making available on the market
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;
- manufacturer
means any natural or legal person who:
- market surveillance authority
means a ‘market surveillance authority’ as defined in Article 3, point (4), of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020;
- national accreditation body
means a national accreditation body as defined in Article 2, point (11), of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008;
- notified body
means a conformity assessment body notified in accordance with this Regulation;
- operator
means the person or persons installing, operating, adjusting, maintaining, cleaning, repairing or moving machinery or a related product;
- partly completed machinery
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;
- placing on the market
means the first making available of a product within the scope of this Regulation on the Union market;
- professional user
means a natural person who uses or operates machinery or a related product in the course of his or her professional activity or work;
- 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 Union, of machinery or related products;
- reasonably foreseeable misuse
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.
- recall
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;
- removable mechanical transmission device
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;
- risk
means a combination of the probability and the degree of an injury or damage to health that can arise in a hazardous situation;
- ropes
means ropes designed and constructed for lifting purposes as part of lifting machinery or lifting accessories;
- safety component
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;
- safety 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;
- source code
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;
- Static test
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;
- substantial modification
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:
- Supervisor
means a person responsible for the supervision of autonomous mobile machinery;
- Supervisory function
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.
- technical specifications
means a document that prescribes technical requirements to be fulfilled by products within the scope of this Regulation;
- Test coefficient
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;
- Union harmonisation legislation
means any Union legislation harmonising the conditions for the marketing of products;
- webbing
means webbing designed and constructed for lifting purposes as part of lifting machinery or lifting accessories;
- withdrawal
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;
- Working coefficient
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;