# Machinery Directive — Certification marks and hazardous-area classifications: cross-market equivalences

For Machinery Directive, market / system is EU; meaning is Safety requirements for machines and mechanical equipment; applies to is machines and mechanical equipment; governing standard / law is 2006/42/EC, recorded from its source on 2026-08-11.

- **Designation:** Machinery Directive _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Market / system:** EU
- **Meaning:** Safety requirements for machines and mechanical equipment _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Applies to:** machines and mechanical equipment _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Governing standard / law:** 2006/42/EC _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC): Safety requirements for machines and mechanical equipment

## Source

- https://ecocomply.ai/blog/what-does-ce-marking-cost-for-your-product

Last verified: 2026-08-11. Review by: 2027-08-11.
Part of [Certification marks and hazardous-area classifications: cross-market equivalences](https://referencesource.org/certification-standards-equivalence/).