Which CE Directives Apply?

Each directive defines the products that are within its scope. This page is not an exhaustive list of all products covered by the directive in question, and does not take into account that several directives exclude certain products from the field of application although they comply with the product definition used in the directive. It is meant only as a rudimentary selection tool to determine which directives are worth studying in more detail.

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	New Approach directive	applies to	that meet these criteria
1.	Low voltage equipment Directive	Electrical equipment	designed for use with a voltage rating of between 50 and 1000 volts for alternating current and between 75 and 1500 volts for direct current
2.	Simple Pressure Vessels Directive	Welded vessels	manufactured in series, subjected to an internal gauge pressure greater than 0,5 bar, intended to contain air or nitrogen, and not intended to be fired
3.	Toys Directive	Products or material	designed or clearly intended for use in play by children of less than 14 years of age
4.	Construction Products Directive	Products	which are produced for incorporation in a permanent manner in construction works (i.e. building and civil engineering works)
5.	Electromagnetic compatibility Directive	Apparatus	i.e. all electrical and electronic appliances together with equipment and installations containing electrical and/or electronic components which are liable to cause electromagnetic disturbance or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance (typically products that contain electronics or active components, HZ)
6.	Machinery Directive	Machinery	Machinery is considered an assembly of linked parts or components at least one of which moves, with the appropriate actuators, control and power circuits, etc.; joined together for a specific application, in particular for the processing, treatment, moving or packaging of a material Also machinery is considered to be an assembly of machines which, in order to achieve the same end, are arranged and controlled to function as an integral whole 'Machinery' also covers interchangeable equipment modifying the function of a machine, and the purpose of which is to be assembled with a machine or a series of different machines or with a tractor by the operator himself in so far as this equipment is not a spare part or a tool
6.	Machinery Directive	Safety components	placed on the market separately to fulfil a safety function when in use and the failure or malfunctioning of which endangers the safety or health of exposed persons, provided that the component is not an interchangeable equipment

7.	Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Directive	Devices or appliances	designed to be worn or held by an individual for protection against one or more health and safety hazards
		Units of several devices or appliances 1.1.4.	which have been integrally combined by the manufacture for the protection of an individual against one or more potentially simultaneous risks
		Protective devices or appliances	combined, separably or inseparably, with personal non-protective equipment worn or held by an individual for the execution of a specific activity
		Interchangeable components	essential to the satisfactory functioning of the personal protective equipment, and used exclusively for such equipment
8.	Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Directive	Measuring instruments	serving to determine the mass of a body by using the action of gravity on that body, or to determine other mass related magnitudes, quantities, parameters or characteristics; and which require the intervention of an operator during weighing
9.	Active Implantable Medical Devices Directive	Instruments, apparatus, appliances, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination (including any accessories or software necessary for its proper application)	which are intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for certain defined purposes (e.g. diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment of disease); which rely for their functioning on an external source of power; which are intended to be totally or partially introduced, surgically or medically, into the human body or by medical intervention into a natural orifice; and which are intended to remain after the procedure
10.	Gas Appliances Directive	Appliances	i.e. appliances burning gaseous fuels used for cooking, heating, hot water production, refrigeration, lighting or washing and having, where applicable, a normal water temperature not exceeding 105°C; or forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners
10.	Gas Appliances Directive	Fittings	i.e. safety devices, controlling devices or regulating devices and sub-assemblies, other than forced draught burners and heating bodies to be equipped with such burners, if they are separately marketed for trade use and designed to be incorporated into an appliance burning gaseous fuel or assembled to constitute such an appliance
11.	Hot-water Boilers Directive	Combined boiler-body units	with a rated output of no less than 4 kW and no more than 400 kW; which are fired with liquid or gaseous fuels and which are designed to transmit to water the heat released from burning
11.	Hot-water Boilers Directive	Appliances	i.e. the boiler-body designed to have a burner fitted, or the burner designed to be fitted to a boiler-body
12.	Civil Explosives (CIVEX) Directive	Materials and articles	considered to be explosives in the United Nations recommendations on the transport of dangerous goods and falling within Class 1 of those recommendations

13.	Medical Devices Directive	Instrument, apparatus, appliances, materials or other article, whether used alone or in combination (including the software necessary for its proper application)	which are intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for certain defined purposes (e.g. diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment of disease); and which does not achieve its principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means
13.	Medical Devices Directive	Accessories	i.e. an article which, whilst not being a medical device, is intended specifically by its manufacturer to be used together with a device to enable it to be used in accordance with the use of the device intended by the manufacturer of the device
14.	Potentially Explosive Atmospheres (ATEX) Directive	Equipment	i.e. machines, apparatus, fixed or mobile devices, control components (i.e. items essential to the safe functioning of equipment and protective system, without autonomous function) and instrumentation thereof; and detection or prevention systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmosphere (i.e. an atmosphere that could become explosive due to local and operational conditions), and intended, separately or jointly, for the generation, transfer, storage, measurement, control and conversion of energy for the processing of material, and capable of causing an explosion through their own potential sources of ignition
		Protective systems	i.e. design units intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres; intended to halt incipient explosions immediately and/or to limit the effective range of explosion flames and explosion pressures; and separately placed on the market for use as autonomous systems
		Safety devices, controlling devices and regulating devices	intended for use outside potentially explosive atmospheres, but required for or contributing to the safe functioning of equipment and protective systems with respect to the risks of explosion
15.	Recreational Craft Directive	Boats	from 2.5m to 24m hull length, measured according to the appropriate harmonized standards; and intended for sports and leisure purposes
		Partly completed boats	i.e. boats consisting of a hull and/or components
		Components	referred to in annex II of the directive when separate and when installed
16.	Lifts Directive	Appliances	permanently serving specific levels in buildings and constructions; having a car moving along guides that are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal; and intended for the transport of persons and/or goods, the car being in each case accessible
16.	Lifts Directive	Safety components	used in lifts and referred to in annex IV of the directive

17.	Refrigeration appliances	Electric mains-operated refrigerators Frozen food storage cabinets Food freezers Combinations of these
18.	Pressure Equipment Directive	Vessels*	i.e. housings designed and built to contain fluids under pressure including their direct attachments up to the coupling point connecting it to other equipment
		Piping*	i.e. piping components intended for the transport of fluids, when connected together for integration into a pressure system
		Safety accessories*	i.e. devices designed to protect pressure equipment against the allowable limits being exceeded
		Pressure accessories*	i.e. devices with an operational function and having pressure-bearing housings
		Assemblies*	i.e. several pieces of pressure equipment assembled by a manufacturer to constitute an integrated and functional whole
		*provided that the maximum allowable pressure PS greater than 0,5 bar
20.	In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Directive	Instrument, apparatus, appliances, materials or other article, whether used alone or in combination (including the software necessary for its proper application)	which are intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for certain defined purposes (e.g. diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation of disease); and which does not achieve its principal intended action in or on the human body by pharmacological, immunological or metabolic means; and which is reagent, a reagent product, calibrator, control material, kit, instrument, apparatus, equipment, or system, whether used alone or in combination, intended by the manufacturer to be used in vitro for the examination of specimens derived from the human body for the purpose of providing information
20.	In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Directive	Accessories	i.e. an article intended specifically by its manufacturer to be used together for in vitro diagnostic examination
21.	Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (RTTE) Directive	Telecommunications terminal equipment	i.e. a product enabling communication or a relevant component thereof which is intended to be connected directly or indirectly by any means whatsoever to interfaces of public telecommunications networks
21.		Radio equipment	i.e. a product, or relevant component thereof, capable of communication by means of the emission and/or reception of radio waves utilizing the spectrum allocated to terrestrial/space radiocommunication

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