Noise Directive 2000/14/EC Equipment

Equipment subject to noise limits (Article 12)

• Builders' hoists
• Compaction machines
• Compressors (< 350 kW)
• Concrete-breakers and picks, handheld
• 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 motorized component of which has an installed power of more than 20 kW)
• Lawn trimmers / lawn edge trimmers
• Lift trucks, combustion-engine driven, counterbalanced
• Loaders (< 500 kW)
• Mobile cranes
• Motor hoes (< 3 kW)
• Paver-finishers
• Power generators (< 400 kW)
• Tower cranes
• Welding generators

Equipment not subject to noise limits (Article 13)

• Aerial access platforms with combustion engine
• Brush cutters
• Builders' hoists for the transport of goods - with electric motors
• Building site band saw machines
• Building site circular saw benches
• Chain saws, portable
• Combined high pressure flushers and suction vehicles
• Compaction machines (explosion rammers only)
• Concrete or mortar mixers
• Construction winches (with electric motor)
• Conveying and spraying machines for concrete and mortar
• Conveyor belts
• Cooling equipment on vehicles
• Drill rigs
• Equipment for loading or unloading silos or tanks on trucks
• Glass recycling containers
• Grass trimmers / grass edge trimmers
• Hedge trimmers
• High pressure flushers
• High pressure water jet machines
• Hydraulic hammers
• Joint cutters
• Leaf blowers
• Leaf collectors
• Lift trucks combustion-engine driven, counterbalanced
• Mobile waste containers
• Paver-finishers
• Piling equipment
• Pipelayers
• Piste caterpillars
• Power generators (>=400 kW)
• Power sweepers
• Refuse collection vehicles
• Road milling machines
• Scarifiers
• Shredders / chippers
• Snow removing machines with rotating tools
• Suction vehicles
• Trenchers
• Truck mixers
• Water pump units (not for use under water)

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