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Amending and correcting on Decision (EU) 2019/436 on Machinery

On 7^th November 2019, the European Commission published “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1863 of 6 November 2019 amending and correcting Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/436 as regards the withdrawal of references of harmonised standards for machinery from the Official Journal of the European Union” with reference C/2019/7851.

The main points in this amendment are:

Annex III to Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/436 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.
Recital (14) of Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/436 is replaced by the following:

‘(14) The references of Harmonised standards EN 786:1996+A2:2009, EN 61496-1:2013 and EN ISO 11200:2014 should be withdrawn from the Official Journal of the European Union as they no longer satisfy the requirements which they aim to cover and which are set out in Directive 2006/42/EC’.

This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.