scope:

This standard specifies requirements for the drafting and presentation of European machinery safety standards, primarily to achieve consistency of the various standards to be prepared. It also gives requirements on the criteria for the selection of new work items and for procedures to allow standards to be prepared and produced in an efficient and effective way. This standard gives requirements which are supplementary to the PNE rules when this is necessary because of the special requirements of machinery safety standards. It does not duplicate the text of the PNE rules when these are unchanged. This standard applies primarily to the drafting of type C standards. It may also apply to type B standards but the foreseeable variation in the format of these standards prevents general application. When requirements specifically apply to type B standards, this is indicated. The PNE rules and EN 292 have to be used in conjunction with the present standard when preparing a new safety standard, or when revising an existing safety standard.