Guide to the implementation of directives based on the New ...

❝ <strong>Guide</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>implementation</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>directives</strong> <strong>based</strong> on <strong>the</strong> New Approach and <strong>the</strong> Global Approach ❞
5. Flow chart for <strong>the</strong> conformity assessment procedures provided for in
Directive 98/37/EC on machinery
Technical construction
file (Annex V)
EC conformity declaration
with essential requirements
MODULE A
Not referred
<strong>to</strong> in Annex IV
MANUFACTURER
Type
<strong>of</strong> machines and
safety components
(Annex IV)
Referred <strong>to</strong> in Annex IV,
without meeting or only
partly meeting <strong>the</strong>
standards, or if no such
standards exist
EC type examination
(Annex VI)
MODULE B (*)
( 1 )
Referred <strong>to</strong>
in Annex IV
and complying
with standards
Technical file (Annex VI)
sent <strong>to</strong> notified body
Conformity declaration <strong>to</strong> type
covered by <strong>the</strong> EC type examination
MODULE A
Type
<strong>of</strong> machines and
safety components
(Annex IV)
Technical file (Annex VI)
submitted <strong>to</strong> NB for
certification <strong>of</strong> adequacy
for <strong>the</strong> file
EC type-examination
(Annex VI)
MODULE B (*)
( 1 ) Safety components do not
bear CE marking. All machines
and safety components
must be accompanied by
<strong>the</strong> EC declaration <strong>of</strong>
conformity.
(*) These procedures were approved before <strong>the</strong> adoption <strong>of</strong> Council Decision 90/683/EEC (as amended by Decision 93/465/EEC) on conformity assessment procedures (modules).
Their provisions may <strong>the</strong>refore not be identical <strong>to</strong> those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> modules.
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