Noise Emission Directive
2000/14/EC
What is the Noise Emission Directive?
The Noise Emission Directive, or to use its complete title, the
Directive On Noise Emission In The Environment by Equipment For Use
Outdoors is important to you if you design or manufacture equipment
for use outdoors which is listed in the Directive and which are put
on the market within the European Economic Area.
What does the directive cover?
The Noise Emission Directive applies to a range of products,
including:
- Builders hoists for the transport of goods (combustion-engine
driven)
- Compaction machines (only vibrating and non-vibrating rollers,
vibratory plates and vibratory rammers)
- Compressors (< 350 KW)
- Concrete-breakers and picks, hand-held
- Construction winches (combustion-engine driven)
- Dozers (< 500 KW)
- Dumpers (< 500 KW)
- Excavators, hydraulic or rope operated
- (< 500 KW)
- Excavator-loaders (< 500 KW)
- Graders (< 500 KW)
- Hydraulic power packs
- Landfill compactors, loader-type with bucket (< 500 KW)
- Lawnmowers (excluding agricultural and forestry equipment, and
multi-purpose devices, the main motorised component of which has an
installed power of more than 20 KW)
- Lawn trimmers/lawn edge trimmers
- Lift trucks, combustion-engine driven, counterbalanced
(excluding other counterbalanced lift trucks with a rated capacity
of not more than 10 tonnes)
- Loader (< 500 KW)
- Mobile cranes
- Motor hoes (< 3 KW)
- Paver-finishers (excluding paver-finishers equipped with a
high-compaction screed)
- Power generators (< 400 KW)
- Tower cranes
- Welding generators
Our services
LRQA has been appointed as notified body for the Noise Emission
Directive and can provide conformity assessment services for the
full quality assurance conformity assessment module in accordance
with Annex VIII of the Directive.
Next steps
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