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The following are excluded from the scope of this Directive:
(a) safety components intended to be used as spare parts to replace identical components
and supplied by the manufacturer of the original machinery;
(b) specific equipment for use in fairgrounds and/or amusement parks;
(c) machinery specially designed or put into service for nuclear purposes which, in the event
of failure, may result in an emission of radioactivity;
(d) weapons, including firearms;
(e) the following means of transport:
— agricultural and forestry tractors for the risks covered by Directive 2003/37/EC, with the
exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles,
— motor vehicles and their trailers covered by Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970
on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor
vehicles and their trailers (1), with the exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles,
— vehicles covered by Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of
18 March 2002 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles (2), with the
exclusion of machinery mounted on these vehicles,
— motor vehicles exclusively intended for competition, and
— means of transport by air, on water and on rail networks with the exclusion of machinery
mounted on these means of transport;
(f) seagoing vessels and mobile offshore units and machinery installed on board such vessels
and/or units;
(g) machinery specially designed and constructed for military or police purposes;
(h) machinery specially designed and constructed for research purposes for temporary use in
laboratories;
(i) mine winding gear;
(j) machinery intended to move performers during artistic performances;
(k) electrical and electronic products falling within the following areas, insofar as they are
covered by Council Directive 73/23/EEC of 19 February 1973 on the harmonisation of the laws
of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits:
— household appliances intended for domestic use,
— audio and video equipment,
— information technology equipment,
— ordinary office machinery,
— low-voltage switchgear and control gear,
— electric motors;
(l) the following types of high-voltage electrical equipment:
— switch gear and control gear,
— transformers.
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