EU/EC 97/68/EC PDF

This Directive applies to engines to be installed in non-road mobile machinery.

This Directive does not apply to engines for the propulsion of:

- vehicles as defined by Directive 70/156/EEC(¹), and by Directive 92/61/EEC(²),

- agricultural tractors as defined by Directive 74/150/EEC(³).

Additionally, in order to be covered by this Directive, the engines have to be installed in machinery which meets the following specific requirements:

A. intended and suited, to move, or to be moved on the ground, with or without road, and with a C.I. engine having a net power in accordance with section 2.4 that is higher than 18 kW but not more than 560 kW(⁴) and that is operated under intermittent speed rather than a single constant speed.

Machinery, the engines of which are covered under this definition, includes but is not limited to:

- industrial drilling rigs, compressors, etc.,

- construction equipment including wheel loaders, bulldozers, crawler tractors, crawler loaders, truck-type loaders, off-highway trucks, hydraulic excavators, etc.,

- agricultural equipment, rotary tillers,

- forestry equipment,

- self-propelled agricultural vehicles (except tractors as defined above),

- material handling equipment,

- fork-lift trucks,

- road maintenance equipment (motor graders, road rollers, asphalt finishers),

- snow-plough equipment,

- ground support equipment in airports,

- aerial lifts,

- mobile cranes.

This Directive is not applicable for the following applications: ,

B. ships

C. railway locomotives

D. aircrafts

E. generating sets

(¹) OJ L 42, 23.2.1970, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 93/81/EEC (OJ L 264, 23.10.1993, p. 49).

(²) OJ L 225, 10.8.1992, p. 72.

(³) OJ L 84, 28.3.1974, p. 10. Direstive as last amended by Directive 88/297/EEC (OJ L 126, 20.5.1988, p. 52).

(⁴) An approval granted in accordance with Regulation 49 of the Economic Commission for Europe, series of amendments 02, corrigenda 1/2 shall be deemed to be equivalent to an approval granted in accordance with Directive 88/77/EEC (see Directive 92/53/EEC, Annex IV, section I).