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§ Annex III · article 20 · Decision (EU) 2023/1586
The reference.
The 150 essential requirements of Annex III — all six chapters, from the requirements common to every machine through to lifting of persons — and 15 harmonised standards with their double status, under the Directive and under the Regulation. Every entry points back to its official source. This is the working table we use to build technical files; it is public because a reference nobody can check is worth nothing.
All 150 requirements were re-read one by one against the French text published in OJ L 165 of 29 June 2023, each cross-checked against the consolidated text. That pass corrected five headings and two statements that were not in the text at all — four of those headings had come from Directive 2006/42/EC rather than from the Regulation. A reference that does not say what it corrected is asking to be taken on trust.
One thing is deliberately left in French: the wording of the requirements and the titles of the standards. That is the version which governs a French technical file, and our paraphrase has no standing where the official text is what gets read. Everything around them — statuses, categories, reading notes — is in English.
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§ How to read the statuses
Three statuses, and what each one commits you to.
The presumption applies
The standard is cited in the Official Journal under the act concerned. Applying it raises a presumption of conformity with the requirements it covers — the safest route, and the cheapest one to defend.
Nothing yet, under this act
No citation to date under the Regulation. That is not a fault in the standard: citations arrive in waves between now and the application date. Apply it, document it, and keep watching.
No presumption at all
The standard is not cited — withdrawn, never cited, or ineligible (a technical specification cannot be harmonised). Applying it is still useful; invoking it as proof of presumption is a mistake.
What this reference does not tell you
A status is not a technical file.
Knowing that a standard is cited says nothing about whether your machine meets it: that is established requirement by requirement, evidence by evidence, and some evidence can only be obtained on the machine itself. That is the work of the technical file. Measure your exposure first — twelve questions, immediate verdict, no sign-up.