On 20 January 2027, the Machinery Directive dies. Is your paperwork ready?

The EU Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applies on a mandatory basis from 20 January 2027, replacing Directive 2006/42/EC for every machine placed on the EU market. Same architecture - essential health and safety requirements plus harmonised standards - but new rules on digital instructions and declarations, AI-powered safety functions, cyber-safety, and high-risk conformity.

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Free check: what does the switchover mean for you?

Three questions from the Commission's machinery page and the Regulation. Nothing you pick leaves this page.

What do you place on the EU market? Will you still be placing units on the EU market on or after 20 January 2027? Does your machinery include software-based safety functions or any AI-powered safety function?

Answer all three to see where you stand.

Sources: European Commission machinery page; Regulation (EU) 2023/1230.

What actually changes

Area	Directive 2006/42/EC	Regulation (EU) 2023/1230
Legal form	Transposed 27+ ways	Uniform, direct application across the EU
AI safety functions	Not addressed	Integrated provisions
Cyber-safety	Not addressed	Provisions for safety-relevant software data and control systems
Instructions & DoC	Paper expectations	Clarified conditions for digital format
High-risk machinery	Annex IV routes	Updated conformity assessment (Regulation Annex I)

Machinery placed on the market before 20 January 2027 stays under the Directive - and the Commission confirms you may also state Regulation conformity on the Declaration of Conformity where applicable.

The EU Machinery Regulation Switchover Pack

Switchover checker: product scope, the stock cut at 20 January 2027, and the high-risk category test.
Change map: Directive to Regulation, row by row - legal form, AI, cyber-safety, digital documentation, conformity routes.
Documentation checklist (Excel): ten tasks from DoC rewording to notified-body confirmation in NANDO.
Declaration of Conformity field checklist: what to update, what may cite both laws, the digital-format conditions.
Timeline: what to freeze before the cutover and what switches on the day.

What it is not: templates and checklists, not legal advice - and not certification. Conformity assessment and CE marking are your legal process; some machinery needs a notified body.

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Questions

We already CE mark under the Directive. Do we redo everything? Not everything - the essential-requirements architecture carries over. But your Declaration of Conformity, instructions format decisions, software/cyber documentation and (for high-risk categories) conformity route need review against the Regulation for anything placed on the market from 20 January 2027.

We import machinery into the EU. Our problem? Yes - check the manufacturer's switchover before your first 2027 shipment. The pack includes the importer briefing task.

Is this advice? No. It is a checklist pack built from the Commission's machinery page and Regulation (EU) 2023/1230. Confirm your conformity route against the Regulation or a notified body.