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EU machinery compliance, explained for exporters
Selling machinery into the European Union means CE marking under EU machinery law — and from 20 January 2027 the rules change. These guides are written for manufacturers outside the EU (US, UK, Switzerland, Asia), verified against the official legal texts on EUR-Lex. The rest of this site is in German; these guides, and our answers when you contact us, are in English.
EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230: What Changes on 20 January 2027
The new Machinery Regulation replaces Directive 2006/42/EC with a hard cut-over. Timeline, the six high-risk categories with mandatory third-party assessment, digital instructions, cybersecurity, and what exporters must do now.
Read the guideCE Marking for Machinery: Step-by-Step Guide for Exporters
The full CE process under Directive 2006/42/EC as it applies today: risk assessment per EN ISO 12100, harmonised standards, technical file, EC Declaration of Conformity, language requirements, and the notified-body question.
Read the guideExporting Machinery to the EU Without an EU Entity
Why every machinery shipment needs an economic operator established in the EU (Regulation 2019/1020 Article 4), what authorised representatives and importers actually do, and the compliance checklist before your first shipment.
Read the guideWant a tool to handle all of this yourself — in English?
This guide is written by the team behind CE-Copilot, a software platform covering the whole EU CE process for machinery: risk assessment per EN ISO 12100, research across 3,100+ standards with harmonisation status, functional safety documentation, the technical file, and EU declarations of conformity with document exports in English, French, Italian and German. The platform interface is currently German — we are gauging demand for a full English version.
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