G/TBT/N/DNK/113  
18 February 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  DENMARK   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Danish Safety Technology Agency  
Esbjerg Brygge 30  
DK-6700 Esbjerg  
Tel.: +45 33 73 20 00  
E-mail: sik@sik.dk  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority d esignated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Danish Business Authority  
Langelinie Allé 17  
DK-2100 Copenhagen O  
Tel.: +45 35 29 10 00  
E-mail: notifikatione r@erst.dk   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN  where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   
Engines and motors (excl. steam turbines, internal combustion piston engine, hydraulic 
turbines, water wheels, gas turbines and electric moto rs); parts thereof (HS 8412);  
Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for pulverized solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, 
incl. their mechanical grates, mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances; parts 
thereof (HS 8416);  
Industrial or laboratory fu rnaces and ovens, non -electric, incl. incinerators (excl. drying 
ovens and ovens for cracking operations) (HS 8417);  
Machinery, plant or laboratory equipment whether or not electrically heated (excl. 
furnaces, ovens and other equipment of heading 8514), f or the treatment of materials 
by a process involving a change of temperature such as heating, cooking, roasting, 
distilling, rectifying, sterilizing, pasteurizing, steaming, drying, evaporating, vapourizing, 
condensing or cooling (excl. those used for dome stic purposes); instantaneous or 
storage water heaters, non -electric; parts thereof (HS 8419);  
Calendering or other rolling machines (other than for metals or glass) (HS 842010);  
Centrifuges, incl. centrifugal dryers (excl. those for isotope separation); filtering or 
purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases; parts thereof (excl. artificial 
kidneys) (HS 8421);  
Pulley tackle and hoists (other than skip hoists); winches and capstans; jacks (HS 
8425);  
Fork-lift trucks; other works trucks fitte d with lifting or handling equipment (excl. 
straddle carriers and works trucks fitted with a crane) (HS 8427);  
Lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery, e.g. lifts, escalators, conveyors, G/TBT/N/DNK/113  
 
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  teleferics (excl. pulley tackle and hoists, winches and ca pstans, jacks, cranes of all 
kinds, mobile lifting frames and straddle carriers, works trucks fitted with a crane, fork -
lift trucks and other works trucks fitted with lifting or handling equipment) (HS 8428);  
Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, grader s, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, 
excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers (HS 8429);  
Moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracting or 
boring machinery, for earth, minerals or ores; pile -drivers and pile -extractors; snow -
ploughs and snow -blowers (excl. those mounted on railway wagons, motor vehicle 
chassis or lorries, self -propelled machinery of heading 8429, lifting, handling, loading or 
unloading machinery of heading 8425 to 8428 and hand -operated tools) (HS 8430);  
Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of heading 8425 to 8430, 
n.e.s (HS 8431);  
Harvesting or threshing machinery, incl. straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; 
machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce; parts 
thereof (other than machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried 
leguminous vegetables of heading 8437) (HS 8433);  
Milking machines and dairy machinery (excl. refrigerating or heat  treatment equipment, 
cream separators, clarifying centrifuges, filter presses and other filtering equipment); 
parts thereof (HS 8434);  
Presses, crushers and similar machinery used in the manufacture of wine, cider, fruit 
juices or similar beverages (excl . machinery for the treatment of these beverages, incl. 
centrifuges, filter presses, other filtering equipment and domestic appliances); parts 
thereof (HS 8435);  
Agricultural, horticultural, forestry, poultry -keeping or bee -keeping machinery, incl. 
germin ation plant fitted with mechanical or thermal equipment; poultry incubators and 
brooders; parts thereof (HS 8436);  
Machines for cleaning, sorting or grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables; 
machinery used in the milling industry or for the work ing of cereals or dried leguminous 
vegetables (excl. farm -type machinery, heat treatment equipment, centrifugal dryers 
and air filters); parts thereof (HS 8437);  
Machinery for making pulp of fibrous cellulosic material or for making or finishing paper 
or paperboard (excl. autoclaves, boilers, dryers, other heating appliances and 
calenders); parts thereof (HS 8439);  
Book-binding machinery, incl. book -sewing machines (excl. machinery of heading 8441, 
general -purpose presses, printing machinery of heading 84 43 and machines of uses 
ancillary to printing); parts thereof (HS 8440);  
Machines for extruding, drawing, texturing or cutting man -made textile materials 
(HS 8444);  
Machines for preparing textile fibres; spinning, doubling or twisting machines and other 
machinery for producing textile yarns (excl. machines of heading 8444); textile reeling 
or winding, incl. weft -winding, machines, and machines for preparing textile yarns for 
use on the machines of heading 8446 or 8447 (HS 8445);  
Weaving machines "looms" (HS 8446);  
Knitting machines, stitch -bonding machines and machines for making gimped yarn, 
tulle, lace, embroidery, trimmings, braid or net and machines for tufting (excl. hem -
stiching machines) (HS 8447);  
Machinery for the manufacture or finishing of fe lt or nonwovens in the piece or in 
shapes, incl. machinery for making felt hats; blocks for making hats; parts thereof 
(excl. machinery for preparing fibres for felt and calenders) (HS 8449);  
Machinery (excl. of heading 8450) for washing, cleaning, wringi ng, drying, ironing, 
pressing incl. fusing presses, bleaching, dyeing, dressing, finishing, coating or 
impregnating textile yarns, fabrics or made -up textile articles and for applying paste to 
the base fabric or other support used in the manufacture of flo or coverings like 
linoleum; machines for reeling, unreeling, folding, cutting or pinking textile fabrics; 
parts thereof (HS 8451);  
Sewing machines (other than book -sewing machines of heading 8440); furniture, bases 
and covers specially designed for sewing  machines; sewing machine needles; parts 
thereof (HS 8452);  
Machinery for preparing, tanning or working hides, skins or leather or for making or 
repairing footwear or other articles of hides, skins or leather (excl. drying machines, 
spray guns, machines f or the dehairing of pigs, sewing machines and general purpose 
presses); parts thereof (HS  8453);  G/TBT/N/DNK/113  
 
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  Converters, ladles, ingot moulds and casting machines of a kind used in metallurgy or in 
metal foundries (excl. metal powder presses); parts thereof (HS 8454) ;  
Metal -rolling mills and rolls therefor; parts of metal -rolling mills (HS 8455);  
Machine -tools for working any material by removal of material, by laser or other light or 
photon beam, ultrasonic, electro -discharge, electro -chemical, electron beam, ionic -
beam or plasma arc processes (excl. cleaning apparatus operated by ultrasonic 
processes, soldering and welding machines, incl. those which can be used for cutting, 
and material testing machines) (HS 8456);  
Machining centres, unit construction machines "s ingle station" and multi -station transfer 
machines for working metal (HS 8457);  
Lathes, incl. turning centres, for removing metal (HS 8458);  
Machine -tools, incl. way -type unit head machines, for drilling, boring, milling, threading 
or tapping (excl. lath es and turning centres of heading 8458, gear cutting machines of 
heading 8461 and hand -operated machines) (HS 8459);  
Machine -tools for deburring, sharpening, grinding, honing, lapping, polishing or 
otherwise finishing metal, metal carbides or cermets by means of grinding stones, 
abrasives or polishing products (excl. gear cutting, gear grinding or gear finishing 
machines of heading 8461 and machines for working in the hand) (HS 8460);  
Machine -tools for planing, shaping, slotting, broaching, ge ar cutting, gear grinding or 
gear finishing, sawing, cutting -off and other machine -tools working by removing metal, 
sintered metal carbides or cermets, n.e.s (HS 8461);  
Machine -tools, incl. presses, for working metal by forging, hammering or die -stamping;  
machine -tools, incl. presses, for working metal by bending, folding, straightening, 
flattening, shearing, punching or notching; presses for working metal or metal carbides, 
not specified above (HS 8462);  
Machine -tools for working metal, sintered metal ca rbides or cermets, without removing 
material (excl. forging, bending, folding, straightening and flattening presses, shearing 
machines, punching or notching machines, presses and machines for working in the 
hand) (HS 8463);  
Machine -tools for working stone , ceramics, concrete, asbestos -cement or like mineral 
materials or for cold -working glass (excl. machines for working in the hand) (HS 8464);  
Machine -tools, incl. machines for nailing, stapling, glueing or otherwise assembling, for 
working wood, cork, bone , hard rubber, hard plastics or similar hard materials (excl. 
machines for working in the hand) (HS 8465);  
Parts and accessories suitable for use solely or principally with the machine -tools of 
heading 8456 to 8465, incl. work or tool holders, self -openin g dieheads, dividing heads 
and other special attachments for machine -tools, n.e.s.; tool holders for any type of tool 
for working in the hand (HS 8466);  
Tools for working in the hand, pneumatic, hydraulic or with self -contained electric or 
non-electric mo tor; parts thereof (HS 8467);  
Machinery and apparatus for soldering, brazing or welding, whether or not capable of 
cutting (other than those of heading 8515); gas -operated surface tempering machines 
and appliances; parts thereof (HS 8468);  
Typewriters, no n-electric (HS 846930); Office machines, e.g. hectograph or stencil 
duplicating machines, addressing machines, automatic banknote dispensers, coin -
sorting machines, coin -counting or wrapping machines, pencil -sharpening machines, 
perforating or stapling mac hines, n.e.s (HS 8472);  
Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixing or 
kneading earth, stone, ores or other mineral substances, in solid, incl. powder or paste, 
form; machinery for agglomerating, shaping or moulding s olid mineral fuels, ceramic 
paste, unhardened cements, plastering materials or other mineral products in powder or 
paste form; machines for forming foundry moulds of sand; parts thereof (HS 8474); 
Machines for assembling electric or electronic lamps, tubes  or valves or flashbulbs, in 
glass envelopes; machines for manufacturing or hot working glass or glassware (excl. 
furnaces and heating apparatus for manufacturing toughened glass); parts thereof 
(HS 8475);  
Automatic goods -vending machines, e.g. postage st amp, cigarette, food or beverage 
machines, incl. money -changing machines; parts thereof (HS 8476);  
Machinery for working rubber or plastics or for the manufacture of products from these 
materials, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter, parts  thereof (HS 8477); 
Machinery for preparing or making up tobacco, not specified or included elsewhere in 
this chapter; parts thereof (HS 8478);  G/TBT/N/DNK/113  
 
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  Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or 
included elsewhere in this cha pter; parts thereof (HS 8479);  
Parts of machinery of chapter 84, not intended for a specific purpose, n.e.s (HS 
848590); Electric motors and generators (excl. generating sets) (HS 8501);  
Electric generating sets and rotary converters (HS 8502)  
5. Title,  number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Bekendtgørelse 
om maskiner (86 page(s), in Danish)  
6. Description of content:  The executive order implements Directive 2006/42/EC of the 
European Parliament and of the Council on machinery (the Machinery Directive), as 
amended, and European Commission Decision 2012/32/EU on requirements for member 
states to prohibit the placing on the market of flail -type cutting attachments for portable 
hand-held brush cutters.The executive order lays down requirements for retailers who 
place machines and partly completed machines on the market or make them available on 
the market. In addition, fla il-type cutting attachments for portable hand -held brush 
cutters is prohibited.The executive order also lays down language requirements and lays 
down sanctions for breaches of the rules.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Draft of the executive order in danish  
• Machinery directive in english  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  3 June 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 July 2021  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Danish Standards  
Göteborg Plads 1  
Nordhavn  
DK-2150  
+ (45) 39 96 61 40  
+ (45) 39 96 61 01 (Fax)  
wto@ds.dk  
http://www.ds.dk  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/DNK/21_1204_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/DNK/21_1204_00_x.pdf