Analysis of the Degree of Compliance with the EU Machinery Directive.

Abstract

To date there has been little research undertaken to analyse the effectiveness of the goal-setting European Union (EU) requirements for the supply of machinery within the EU markets. This thesis attempts to stimulate interest in this area. The findings contained within the thesis are derived from a large independent research programme conducted at Aston University. The research is designed to provide comprehensive analysis of machinery suppliers understanding of and compliance with EU requirements. The thesis focuses mainly on the EU Machinery Directive (89/392/EEC) as amended. In this study seventy machinery suppliers to the United Kingdom (UK) market were surveyed between January 1995 and December 1998, in order to analyse the degree of their compliance with these relatively new requirements, which includes meeting relevant essential health and safety requirements (EHSRs), as well as other relevant product directives...