Outdoor Noise Directive 2000/14/EC
The Outdoor Noise Directive of 8 May 2000 was adopted and implemented for Italy by Legislative Decree no. 262 of 4 September 2002.
It has as its key objective the reduction of noise emitted by equipment used outdoors and applies to different types of machinery and equipment defined in Annex I and divided as follows:
- Machinery for which a limit value of the emitted sound power level is established (art. 12): the Manufacturer must apply to a Notified Body requesting the CE Certification of the machinery.
In this case, Vericert, as a Notified Body, will issue one of the following certifications: -
- CE certified according to Annex VI – Internal production control with evaluation of technical documentation and periodic checks
- CE Certificate according to Annex VII – Unique Specimen Verification
- CE certified according to Annex VIII – Total Quality Assurance
- Machinery and equipment for which the Directive does not set a limit value for the sound power emitted (art.13). In this case, it is the Manufacturer himself who ensures compliance by means of an internal production control procedure, but can voluntarily contact a Notified Body requesting a voluntary verification of the conformity of his product with the legislation in force.
ART 12
Equipment subject to noise limits.
3 – goods lifts for construction materials (driven by internal combustion engine)
8 – compaction means (only vibrating rollers and static rollers, vibrating plates and vibratory rammers)
9 – mobile compressors (< 350 kW)
10 – Hand-held demolition hammers
12 – Construction site winches (driven by internal combustion engine)
16 – dozer (< 500 kW)
18 – dumper (< 500 kW)
20 – hydraulic or rope excavators (< 500kW)
21 – backhoe loaders (< 500 kW)
23 – motor graders (< 500 kW)
29 – Hydraulic power units
31 – waste compactors with loader and bucket (< 500 kW)
32 – lawn mowers (excluding machinery for agricultural and forestry use and multifunctional devices whose main motorised element has an installed power of more than 20 kW)
33 – Electric lawn trimmers/electric trimmers
36 – forklifts, internal combustion engine trucks with a jump load (excluding ‘other forklifts with a cantilever load’ referred to in Annex In. 36, second indent, with a rated capacity of no more than 10 tonnes)
37 – loaders (< 500 kW)
38 – Mobile cranes
40 – Tillers (< 3 kW)
41 – Asphalt pavers (excluding asphalt pavers equipped with a high-compaction scraper)
45 – generators (< 400 kW)
53 – tower cranes
57 – welding generators
ART 13
Equipment subject to noise marking
1 – Internal combustion engine powered access platforms
2 – Brushcutters
3 – Hoists for construction materials (with electric motor)
4 – Band saws for construction sites
5 – Circular saws for construction sites
6 – Portable chain saws
7 – Combined Bleeding Vehicles
8 – Compaction vehicles (compacting vehicles with impact action)
11 – Concrete mixers
12 – Construction site winches (with electric motor)
13 – Cement pumps and plastering machines
14 – Belt conveyors
15 – Vehicle-mounted refrigeration systems
17 – Drilling machines
19 – Equipment for loading and unloading tankers and multi-storey car parks
22 – Bells for collecting glass
24 – Lawn mowers/edge trimmers
25 – Hedge trimmer
26 – High pressure pipe purging
27 – Pressure washers
28 – Hydraulic breakers
30 – Flail cutter
34 – Foliage blowers
35 – Foliage vacuums
36 – Forklift trucks, with internal combustion engine with cantilever load (only ‘other cantilever forklift trucks’ referred to in Annex I No 36, second indent, with a rated capacity of not more than 10 tonnes)
39 – Mobile waste containers
41 – Pavers (equipped with high-compaction screed)
42 – Piling equipment
43 – Pipelayer
44 – Snowcats
45 – Generators (≥ 400 kW)
46 – autospazzatrici
47 – veicoli per la raccolta dei rifiuti
48 – frese da asfalto
49 – scarificatori
50 – trituratrici e cippatrici
51 – frese da neve rotative (semoventi, esclusi gli accessori)
52 – veicoli per l’aspirazione di reflui
54 – scavatrincee
55 – autobetoniere
56 – motopompe (escluse quelle sommerse)
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