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This International Standard gives terms and definitions and an identification structure for classifying earth-moving machinery designed to perform the following operations: excavation, loading, transportation, and drilling, spreading, compacting or trenching of earth and other materials, for example, during work on roads and dams, and on building sites. The purpose of this International Standard is to provide a clear means of identifying machines according to their function and design configurations. Annex A provides a procedure based on the identification structure used by this International Standard for classifying the machinery and for introducing detailed identifications consistent with the logic implied by the structure. Annex B provides a hierarchy of the operator control configurations for earth-moving machinery.