Call for interest: European Machinery Regulation
The European Machinery Regulation is the new European legislation that establishes rules for the design, construction and commissioning of machinery within the EU. Is accreditation for product groups 5 and 6 under this regulation of interest to your organization? Please contact the RvA.
Development project for new accreditation
The European Machinery Regulation replaced the current Machine Directive 2006/42/EC and will become mandatory from January 20th 2027. Product groups 5 and 6 are new in the Machinery Regulation. The RvA is investigating whether organizations are interested in accreditation for these product groups.
Interested in accreditation for product groups 5 and 6 of the Machinery Regulation?
Are you interested in accreditation against EN-ISO/IEC 17065 for:
- Product group 5 – Safety components with fully or partially self-evolving behaviour using machine learning approaches ensuring safety functions
And/or
- Product group 6 – Machinery that has embedded systems with fully or partially self-evolving behaviour using machine learning approaches ensuring safety functions that have not been placed independently on the market, in respect only of those systems.
Please send us an email before 1 April 2026 at ontwikkeling@rva.nl. For determining whether RvA will start developing accreditation for these product groups in the near future, we would like to receive the following information:
Let us know:
- When your organisation is ready to submit an application for accreditation.
- For which product groups your organisation wish to apply for accreditation.
- Whether staff has been hired or existing staff has been trained to become competent for these product groups. If so, which areas are affected?
Other product groups from the Machinery Regulation
It is already possible to submit an accreditation application for other product groups covered by the Machinery Regulation via the Prisma Application Tool. Certification bodies that are currently accredited for the Machinery Directive have been informed about this.
Development costs
The RvA charges a development fee to organizations participating in development projects. After assessing the level of interest, the RvA will determine the development fee. The costs for the development projects include the costs for training, qualification, coordination of assessments, and development of the scope for accreditation and, where necessary, an Accreditation Specification (previously referred to as a specific accreditation protocol).
The development costs do not include the costs for the accreditation assessment. The assessment activities, such as preliminary assessment, initial assessment, witnessing or assessment of non conformities, are subject to the assessment rates as described in the RvA policy rules and the rates decision (https://www.rva.nl/en/documenten/tarievenbesluit-2026/).
Questions?
Do you have any questions? Contact us.
If answers to your questions are relevant to all interested/participating verification bodies, we will notify everyone involved.