The objectives of Orgalime include ensuring that the Machinery Directive is well implemented so that it can best fulfil the aims to which it was adopted, namely the promotion of the free movement of goods (in this case Machinery) within the European Union and the guarantee of a high level of protection to European workers and citizens.
To reach these aims Orgalime has played and continues to play a prominent role as the leading partner for the mechanical sector representing the interests of the mechanical industry at relevant committees, meetings and consultations at European level, including representation at the Machinery Directive Working Group.
During 2009 and during the first quarter of 2010, the main activities of the Machinery Core group at Orgalime focused on providing comments to the Editorial Group in charge of writing the Guide of Interpretation to the Machinery Directive whose first draft has made available in December 2009. A second edition of the Guide was published on the European Commission website last June 2010. The revised version of the Guide is available here.
Most of the comments provided by the Orgalime Machinery Core Group have been taken on board by the European Commission in the Guide.
This Orgalime group is the acknowledged industrial platform entitled for co-coordinating, streamlining and agreeing on all relevant industrial input into the Editorial Group of the European Commission.
Its tasks has included up to now providing coordinated industry comments to the Editorial Group in charge of drafting the Guide of interpretation to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. Orgalime's Machinery Directive Core Group is composed of industry experts and is fully committed to deliver accurate, quality input to the Commission in order to contribute to adequate, easy to use, user-friendly Guidelines, which Orgalime consider as key to a smooth, effective and coherent application of the Machinery Directive throughout the European Union.
Future Orgalime activities
As the work on the guidelines was coming to an end, Orgalime is now focusing on providing the Commission and the Member States with coordinated input on the issues encountered by industrials in applying the Directive.
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