NIST GCR 01-814
A Guide to the EU Machinery Directive

• means of transport, i.e., vehicles and their trailers intended solely for transporting passengers by air or on road, rail or water networks, as well as means of transport in so far as such means are designed for transporting goods by air, on public road or rail networks or on water. Vehicles used in the mineral extraction industry are included;
  
  
• seagoing vessels and mobile offshore units together with equipment on board such vessels or units;
  
  
• cableways, including funicular railways, for the public or private transportation of persons;
  
  
• agricultural and forestry tractors;
  
  
• machines specially designed and constructed for military or police purposes;
  
  
• which permanently serve specific levels of buildings and constructions, having a car moving between guides which are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal and designed for the transport of:
  
  
  • persons,
    
    
  • persons and goods, and
    
    
  • goods alone if the car is accessible, that is to say, a person may enter it without difficulty, and fitted with controls situated inside the car or within reach of a person inside.
  
  (Note: "Lifts which permanently serve ..." are excluded. They are covered by the "lifts" Directive 95/16/EC, but lifting platforms moving vertically or obliquely intended for the transport of handicapped persons are covered by the Directive, as are similar devices fitted on staircases.);
  
  
• means of transport of persons using rack and pinion rail mounted vehicles;
  
  
• mine winding gear;
  
  
• theatre elevators; and
  
  
• construction site hoists.

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