Standards & Directives
Directives
You can download the texts of all the EU Directives from the europa.eu site, as
files. The following table links to some directives:
| Format | Document | Date |
|---|---|---|
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2004/108/EC — The EMC Directive (800 kB) | 31 December 2004 |
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89/336/EEC — The (old) EMC Directive (719 kB) | 23 May 1989 |
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2004/40/EC — The EMF Directive (132 kB) | 24 May 2004 |
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1999/5/EC — The R&TTE Directive (123 kB) | 9 March 1999 |
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2006/95/EC — The Low Voltage Directive (430 kB) | 12 December 2006 |
|
98/37/EC — The Machinery Directive (389 kB) | 22 June 1998 |
Harmonised Standards listed in the OJEU & OJEC
These are the latest lists of European harmonised standards for the EMC, R&TTE, Low Voltage and Machinery directives, as published in the Official Journal:
| Format | Document | Date |
|---|---|---|
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Harmonised standards under the EMC Directive (127 kB) | 4 November 2008 |
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Harmonised standards under the R&TTE Directive (179 kB) [R&TTE list at the Europa site] |
4 November 2008 |
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Harmonised standards under the LVD (363 kB) [Low Voltage list at the Europa site] |
29 August 2008 |
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Harmonised standards under the Machinery Directive (223 kB) [Machinery list at the Europa site] |
22 August 2008 |
| Corrigendum to the list of harmonised standards under the Machinery Directive (52 kB) | 20 September 2008 |
We have archived previous lists of harmonised standards.
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These files are in Adobe's PDF. If you don't already have one, you can download a free reader from Adobe for most operating systems.
Standards Spotlight
In order to help customers become more familiar with an ever-increasing number of standards and changes to them, we are running an occasional feature, focussing our attention each time on a different standard!
You can suggest a standard for the spotlight by e-mailing us your suggestion.
Our spotlight on standards feature begins with EN 61326, “Electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory use”.
Information on the development of the new EMC Directive is available.
Information on the renumbering of the Generic standards is also available.
Last updated: 2008-Nov-09
