Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/546 of 12 March 2026 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1586 as regards harmonised standards for packaging machines, rough-terrain trucks, food processing machinery, cranes, cableway installations, agricultural and forestry machinery, lifts, rescue tools, hand-held tools, equipment in railway applications, aircraft ground support equipment, earth-moving machinery and refuse collection vehicles and correcting that Decision

Article 1Amendments to Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1586

Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1586 is amended as follows:
(1)
in Article 1, the second paragraph is replaced by the following:
‘The references of the standards listed in Part Three, point 2, rows 24a, 121, 126a, 266, 324a, 343, 405, 495, 495a, 502a, 513a, 622a, 671a and 681a, of Annex I to this Decision are published or maintained in the Official Journal of the European Union with restrictions.’;
(2)
Annex I is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2Correction to Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1586

In the restriction of row 622a, Part Three, point 2, of Annex I to Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1586, the words ‘such as tall trees’ shall be replaced by ‘such as tall branches’.

Article 3Entry into force

This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Article 2 shall apply from 13 January 2026.
Point (1) of the Annex shall apply from 20 January 2027.

ANNEX

ANNEX
In Part Three of Annex I to Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1586, point 2 is amended as follows:
(1)
rows 5, 18, 113, 115, 301, 365, 368, 372, 401, 403, 437, 457, 509, 511 and 512 are deleted;
(2)
rows 24 and 126 are deleted;
(3)
the following rows are inserted in sequential order:
‘5 – a.
EN 81-43:2025
Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts – Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods – Part 43: Lifts for cranes’
“13a.
EN 415-2:2025
Safety of packaging machines – Part 2: Packaging machines for pre-formed rigid containers”
‘18a.
EN 415-8:2025
Safety of packaging machines – Part 8: Strapping machines’
“24a.
EN 474-1:2022
Earth-moving machinery – Safety – Part 1: General requirements
Restriction: For the purpose of the presumption of conformity of this harmonised standard, the value in its clause 4.12.7.2 “at 125 % of Q1 and Q2” shall be read as “at least at 100 % or up to a value of 125 % of Q1 and Q2 insofar as the tested machine can indeed attain a higher load”, as well as the value in its clause 4.12.7.3 “at 110 % of Q1 and Q2” shall be read as ‘at least at 100 % or up to a value of 110 % of Q1 and Q2 insofar as the tested machine can indeed attain a higher load’”
‘113a.
EN 1459-1:2025
Rough-terrain trucks – Safety requirements and verification – Part 1: Variable-reach trucks’
‘114a.
EN 1459-4:2020+A1:2025
Rough-terrain trucks – Safety requirements and verification – Part 4: Additional requirements for variable-reach trucks handling freely suspended loads’
‘115a.
EN 1459-5:2020+A1:2025
Rough-terrain trucks – Safety requirements and verification – Part 5: Attachment interface’
‘126a.
EN 1501-5:2021
Refuse collection vehicles – General requirements and safety requirements – Part 5: Lifting devices for refuse collection vehicles
Restriction: This harmonised standard does not confer a presumption of conformity with the essential health and safety requirements set out in: point 1.1.7 of Annex I to Directive 2006/42/EC, which requires that machinery is designed and constructed in such a way as to provide adequate means to ensure that the operator has good working conditions and is protected against any foreseeable hazards; point 1.2.1 of that Annex, which requires that safety and reliability of control systems apply in a coherent way to the whole of an assembly of machinery, notably in case of reasonably foreseeable human error during operation, so that this does not lead to hazardous situations; and point 1.5.11 of that Annex, which requires that all machinery must be designed and constructed in such a way that external radiation does not interfere with its operation.’
‘301a.
EN 12312-15:2020+A2:2025
Aircraft ground support equipment – Specific requirements – Part 15: Baggage and equipment tractors’
‘365a.
EN 12965:2019+A1:2025
Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry – Power take-off (PTO) drive shafts and their guards – Safety
’
‘368a.
EN 12999:2020+A1:2025
Cranes – Loader cranes’
‘372a.
EN 13001-3-1:2025
Cranes – General design – Part 3-1: Limit states and proof competence of steel structure’
‘401a.
EN 13155:2020+A1:2025
Crane – Safety – Non-fixed load lifting attachments
’
‘403a.
EN 13204:2025
Powered rescue tools for fire and rescue service use – Safety and performance requirements’
‘437a.
EN 13852-1:2025
Cranes – Offshore cranes – Part 1: General-purpose offshore cranes’
‘457a.
EN 14439:2025
Cranes – Tower cranes’
‘494a.
EN 15180:2025
Food processing machinery – Food depositors – Safety and hygiene requirements
’
‘509a.
EN 15895:2025
Powder actuated hand-held fixing and hard marking tools – Safety requirements’
‘512a.
EN 15955-2:2025
Railway applications – Infrastructure – Demountable machines, trailers and associated equipment – Part 2: General safety requirements
’
‘563a.
EN 17076:2020+A1:2025
Tower cranes – Anti-collision systems – Safety requirements
’
‘572 – a.
EN 17639:2025
Safety of machinery – Cableway installations designed for the transport of material and specially designated persons – General safety requirements’
‘572b.
EN 17744:2025
Agricultural and forestry machinery – Environmental requirements for dusters’
‘573 – a.
EN 17923:2025
Equipment for vine cultivation and wine making – Safety – Must and grape harvest pumps’

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