No harmonized standards have yet been published for the Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, let alone listed in the EU Official Journal.
Instead, the EU Commission has taken the next formal step with a date, however reliable it may be.
At the beginning of the year, the mandate to draw up harmonized standards was given to CEN and CENELEC. The mandate is now officially called
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION on a standardization request to the European Committee for Standardization and to the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization as regards machinery and related products in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 of the European Parliament and of the Council
This decision consists of the main document and an annex.
By July 25, 2025, CEN and CENELEC shall submit a draft work program for the preparation of standards in accordance with the Annex. Thereafter, CEN and CENELEC are to report annually on the status of the work.
The 24-page annex provides precise information on the protection objectives to be addressed by the standards and by when the standards are to be published by CEN and CENELEC.
The new standards are to be published by January 20, 2026.
Furthermore, CEN and CENELEC will be given very precise specifications as to what information and references the standards must contain.
We will see what happens by the beginning of 2026. We will keep you informed and will be happy to answer your questions personally.
Would you like to read more about standardization and radio? Then you can find more articles here:
→ Radio standards due for deletion from the EU Official Journal from January 14, 2025
→ New ETSI EMC standards of the EN 301 489 series and other listings in the OJEU on RED from December 03, 2024
Author's note
This article has been machine translated into English.
TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
OJEU: Official Journal of the EU
