Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/546of 12 March 2026amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1586 as regards harmonised standards for packaging machines, rough-terrain trucks, food processing machinery, cranes, cableway installations, agricultural and forestry machinery, lifts, rescue tools, hand-held tools, equipment in railway applications, aircraft ground support equipment, earth-moving machinery and refuse collection vehicles and correcting that Decision(Text with EEA relevance)

Article 2 shall apply from 13 January 2026.

Point (1) of the Annex shall apply from 20 January 2027.

Done at Brussels, 12 March 2026.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen

Annex

ANNEX

In Part Three of Annex I to Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1586, point 2 is amended as follows:

(1) rows 5, 18, 113, 115, 301, 365, 368, 372, 401, 403, 437, 457, 509, 511 and 512 are deleted;

(2) rows 24 and 126 are deleted;

(3) the following rows are inserted in sequential order:

5 – a.

EN 81-43:2025

Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts – Special lifts for the transport of persons and goods – Part 43: Lifts for cranes

13a.

EN 415-2:2025

Safety of packaging machines – Part 2: Packaging machines for pre-formed rigid containers

18a.

EN 415-8:2025

Safety of packaging machines – Part 8: Strapping machines

24a.

EN 474-1:2022

Earth-moving machinery – Safety – Part 1: General requirements

Restriction: For the purpose of the presumption of conformity of this harmonised standard, the value in its clause 4.12.7.2 at 125 % of Q1 and Q2 shall be read as at least at 100 % or up to a value of 125 % of Q1 and Q2 insofar as the tested machine can indeed attain a higher load, as well as the value in its clause 4.12.7.3 at 110 % of Q1 and Q2 shall be read as at least at 100 % or up to a value of 110 % of Q1 and Q2 insofar as the tested machine can indeed attain a higher load

113a.

EN 1459-1:2025

Rough-terrain trucks – Safety requirements and verification – Part 1: Variable-reach trucks

114a.

EN 1459-4:2020+A1:2025

Rough-terrain trucks – Safety requirements and verification – Part 4: Additional requirements for variable-reach trucks handling freely suspended loads

115a.

EN 1459-5:2020+A1:2025

Rough-terrain trucks – Safety requirements and verification – Part 5: Attachment interface

126a.

EN 1501-5:2021

Refuse collection vehicles – General requirements and safety requirements – Part 5: Lifting devices for refuse collection vehicles

Restriction: This harmonised standard does not confer a presumption of conformity with the essential health and safety requirements set out in: point 1.1.7 of Annex I to Directive 2006/42/EC, which requires that machinery is designed and constructed in such a way as to provide adequate means to ensure that the operator has good working conditions and is protected against any foreseeable hazards; point 1.2.1 of that Annex, which requires that safety and reliability of control systems apply in a coherent way to the whole of an assembly of machinery, notably in case of reasonably foreseeable human error during operation, so that this does not lead to hazardous situations; and point 1.5.11 of that Annex, which requires that all machinery must be designed and constructed in such a way that external radiation does not interfere with its operation.

301a.

EN 12312-15:2020+A2:2025

Aircraft ground support equipment – Specific requirements – Part 15: Baggage and equipment tractors

365a.

EN 12965:2019+A1:2025

Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry – Power take-off (PTO) drive shafts and their guards – Safety