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This document gives the safety requirements and measures for manually loaded and unloaded vertical panel circular sawing machines capable of continuous production use, with hand feed or integrated feed, as defined in 3.1, hereinafter referred to as "machines". It deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Annex A, relevant to the machines, when operated, adjusted and maintained as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer, including reasonably foreseeable misuse. Also, transport, assembly, dismantling, disabling and scrapping phases are taken into account. It is also applicable to machines fitted with one or more of the following devices/additional working units, whose hazards have been dealt with: - an integrated feed device; - a device for scoring; - an angle cutting device; - a middle support device; - programmable end stops for parallel vertical cuts; - a device for grooving with a width of at most 20 mm in one pass by using a milling tool; and - a panel pusher.