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Noise Emission Directive

2000/14/EC

The Noise Emission Directive looks at noise emission in the environment by equipment used outdoors.

eu directive, product conformity, lrqa

What is the Noise Emission Directive?

The Noise Emission Directive, or to use its complete title, the Directive On Noise Emission In The Environment by Equipment For Use Outdoors is important to you if you design or manufacture equipment for use outdoors which is listed in the Directive and which are put on the market within the European Economic Area.

What does the directive cover?

The Noise Emission Directive applies to a range of products, including:

• Builders hoists for the transport of goods (combustion-engine driven)

• Compaction machines (only vibrating and non-vibrating rollers, vibratory plates and vibratory rammers)

• Compressors (< 350 KW)

• Concrete-breakers and picks, hand-held

• Construction winches (combustion-engine driven)

• Dozers (< 500 KW)

• Dumpers (< 500 KW)

• Excavators, hydraulic or rope operated (< 500 KW)

• Excavator-loaders (< 500 KW)

• Graders (< 500 KW)

• Hydraulic power packs

• Landfill compactors, loader-type with bucket (< 500 KW)

• Lawnmowers (excluding agricultural and forestry equipment, and multi-purpose devices, the main motorised component of which has an installed power of more than 20 KW)

• Lawn trimmers/lawn edge trimmers

• Lift trucks, combustion-engine driven, counterbalanced (excluding other counterbalanced lift trucks with a rated capacity of not more than 10 tonnes)

• Loader (< 500 KW)

• Mobile cranes

• Motor homes (< 3 KW)

• Paver-finishers (excluding paver-finishers equipped with a high-compaction screed)

• Power generators (< 400 KW)

• Tower cranes

• Welding generators

LRQA Services

Certification - LRQA has been appointed as notified body for the Noise Emission Directive and can provide conformity assessment and certification services for the full quality assurance conformity assessment module in accordance with Annex VIII of the Directive.