Article 1 Scope

machinery;

interchangeable equipment;

safety components;

lifting accessories;

chains, ropes and webbing;

removable mechanical transmission devices;

partly completed machinery.

safety components intended to be used as spare parts to replace identical components and supplied by the manufacturer of the original machinery;

specific equipment for use in fairgrounds and/or amusement parks;

machinery specially designed or put into service for nuclear purposes which, in the event of failure, may result in an emission of radioactivity;

weapons, including firearms;

the following means of transport:

• F1agricultural and forestry tractors, with the exclusion of machinery mounted on those vehicles,

• motor vehicles and their trailers covered by Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers^f1, with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles,

• vehicles covered by Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles^f2, with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles,

• motor vehicles exclusively intended for competition, and

• means of transport by air, on water and on rail networks with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these means of transport;

seagoing vessels and mobile offshore units and machinery installed on board such vessels and/or units;

machinery specially designed and constructed for military or police purposes;

machinery specially designed and constructed for research purposes for temporary use in laboratories;

mine winding gear;

machinery intended to move performers during artistic performances;

electrical and electronic products falling within the following areas, insofar as they are covered by Council Directive 73/23/EEC of 19 February 1973 on the harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits^f3:

• household appliances intended for domestic use,

• audio and video equipment,

• information technology equipment,

• ordinary office machinery,

• low-voltage switchgear and control gear,

• electric motors;

the following types of high-voltage electrical equipment:

• switch gear and control gear,

• transformers.