Ucima’s request to MEPs accepted. Amendment to the new Machinery Regulation withdrawn. Ucima’s chairman Matteo Gentili: “Significant reputational damage, costs and time-consuming bureaucracy has been avoided”
Ucima’s request to MEPs accepted. Amendment to the new Machinery Regulation withdrawn. Ucima’s chairman Matteo Gentili: “Significant reputational damage, costs and time-consuming bureaucracy has been avoided”
Ucima has won an important victory at the European Parliament with the withdrawal of an amendment to the new Machinery Regulation at the Association’s request. The new legislation is currently undergoing approval in Brussels and will replace the previous 2006 Directive.
The amendment in question was highly controversial as it would have included palletisers, depalletisers and pallet wrapping machines in the annex containing the list of machinery products that potentially pose a high risk. This classification would have obliged all manufacturers of these products to gain prior approval from notified bodies in accordance with the Machinery Directive for the models and machines they intend to place on the market.
As soon as Ucima’s technical department became aware of this possibility, in coordination with Confindustria Brussels it individually contacted all the Italian members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection to discuss the sector’s concerns.
In particular, the Association showed that the amendment appeared to be senseless given the complete absence of injury statistics, reports or figures demonstrating the high-risk nature of these products. Furthermore, according to the Mecs-Ucima research centre, the new classification would affect no fewer than 13,000 machines in Europe each year. A large proportion of these machines are made by Italian companies, which account for at least 50% of total Europe-wide sales.
has won an important victory at the European Parliament with the withdrawal of an amendment to the new Machinery Regulation at the Association’s request. The new legislation is currently undergoing approval in Brussels and will replace the previous 2006 Directive.
The amendment in question was highly controversial as it would have included palletisers, depalletisers and pallet wrapping machines in the annex containing the list of machinery products that potentially pose a high risk. This classification would have obliged all manufacturers of these products to gain prior approval from notified bodies in accordance with the Machinery Directive for the models and machines they intend to place on the market.
As soon as Ucima’s technical department became aware of this possibility, in coordination with Confindustria Brussels it individually contacted all the Italian members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection to discuss the sector’s concerns.
In particular, the Association showed that the amendment appeared to be senseless given the complete absence of injury statistics, reports or figures demonstrating the high-risk nature of these products. Furthermore, according to the Mecs-Ucima research centre, the new classification would affect no fewer than 13,000 machines in Europe each year. A large proportion of these machines are made by Italian companies, which account for at least 50% of total Europe-wide sales.