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EU Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 Deadlines and Compliance Calendar

A transition and execution calendar from entry into force to 14 January 2027.

Focus: Annex I routing, Article 6 reporting, digital-document readiness, notified body lead times, and market readiness gates.

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Feb 21, 2026

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Feb 21, 2026

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Published Feb 21, 2026

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Overview

The corrigendum to Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 fixes the key transition dates: the Regulation entered into force on 19 July 2023 and applies from 14 January 2027. Several provisions apply earlier, Member States and the Commission have Article 6 reporting milestones in 2025 and 2026, and products already placed on the market under Directive 2006/42/EC need a defensible transition record. This page turns those dates into an execution plan.

Section 1

1) Key dates you should put into the program plan

Use absolute dates in your tracker and keep the corrigendum dates, not older summary-page dates, in the master schedule.

The high-value control is one shared timeline used by engineering, regulatory, quality, and commercial teams.

14 June 2023: Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 adopted.
29 June 2023: Regulation published in the Official Journal.
19 July 2023: Regulation entered into force; Article 6(7) and Articles 48 and 52 started to apply.
14 January 2024: Articles 26 to 42 started to apply.
20 July 2024: Article 6(2) to (6), (8) and (11), Article 47, and Article 53(3) started to apply.
14 July 2025: Member States must provide Article 6(5) data and information, and repeat every five years.
20 July 2026: Commission specific report on Article 6(4) and (5).
14 October 2026: Member States notify penalty rules to the Commission.
14 January 2027: main application date and repeal of Directive 2006/42/EC.

Section 2

2) Transition handling for products already placed on the market

Products lawfully placed on the market under Directive 2006/42/EC before 14 January 2027 can continue to circulate, but that only works if your placed-on-market evidence is complete.

For legacy products, Chapter VI market-surveillance rules apply from 19 July 2023 mutatis mutandis instead of Directive Article 11.

Store the date of placing on the market, the directive-based declaration version, the technical-file snapshot, and the exact product identifier for each model.
Do not mix a directive-era declaration with Regulation 2023/1230 technical-file language in the same release pack.
Build a decision memo per family: continue under Directive 2006/42/EC until depletion, or migrate early to Regulation 2023/1230.

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Section 3

3) 2024 and 2025 priorities: route discovery and evidence build

The main schedule risk is late discovery that a family belongs in Annex I Part A or Part B and therefore needs a different Article 25 route.

Finish classification and evidence architecture before you enter the 2026 bottleneck window.

Run scope and exclusion checks for each family: machinery, related product, or partly completed machinery.
Classify Annex I Part A, Part B, or not listed, and record why.
Map Article 25 route logic, including when Part B may still use Module A because harmonised standards or common specifications cover all relevant EHSR.
Build Annex III hazard and EHSR mappings plus Annex IV index structures while product knowledge is still current.
Stand up digital-instructions, declaration-link, and software-log retention controls in the same workstream.

Section 4

4) 2026 priorities: finish the operating model, not just the documents

2026 is the year to prove the workflow is operational: document access, signatory control, technical-file retrieval, and notified body interaction all need dry runs.

Treat 2026 as a systems-integration year for compliance.

Freeze route outcomes, complete notified body assessments where required, and control configuration changes.
Validate that digital instructions can be printed, downloaded, saved, and requested in paper within one month.
Verify that DoC or DoI links, machine-readable codes, and version histories match the shipped configuration.
Test a response pack export for market surveillance: index, declarations, instructions, core reports, and software evidence.

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