"Agricultural engineering encompasses tractors, agricultural and forestry machinery, garden equipment and municipal machinery. Standardization is conducted at national, European and international level.
The focus of the study lay upon the examination of harmonized European standards which support the Machinery Directive. The working group supporting the project selected 23 standards and draft standards relevant to the core area of agriculture. The areas of forestry and garden equipment, municipal machinery, manually guided equipment, and standards governing the environmental aspects of agricultural machinery were excluded from the analysis.
The requirements set out in the standards and draft standards studied were compared to the essential health and safety requirements of Annex I of the Machinery Directive 98/37/EC. Based upon this comparison, recommendations were formulated concerning which sections in the standards and draft standards should be reviewed with regard to their support for Annex I of the Machinery Directive. "

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