Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 requires Member States to set penalties for infringements by economic operators, while EU market-surveillance rules shape investigations, corrective action, recalls, withdrawals, and restrictions.
Use this page to understand what the EU-level sources actually say before checking the national penalty rules that apply in the relevant Member State.
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The Machinery Regulation does not publish one EU-wide table of machinery fines. Article 50 requires Member States to set and implement penalties for infringements by economic operators, and those penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Enforcement risk is therefore best read together with the Regulation's market-surveillance procedure and the general EU market-surveillance framework in Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.
Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 is a framework clause, not a tariff schedule. It tells Member States to lay down rules on penalties for infringements by economic operators, to ensure those rules are implemented, and to make the penalties effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
The same article says penalties may include criminal penalties for serious infringements. It also requires Member States to notify the Commission of their penalty rules and any later amendments. The grounding data does not include national implementing laws or fine amounts, so this page does not present country-by-country fine tables.
The Machinery Regulation's market-surveillance chapter starts with the product and the risk. If a market surveillance authority has sufficient reason to believe that machinery, a related product, or partly completed machinery presents a risk, it evaluates the product against the Regulation and the economic operator must cooperate.
If the authority finds non-compliance, it must require appropriate and proportionate corrective action to end the non-compliance, eliminate hazards, or minimise the risk within a reasonable period. If the operator does not act in time, or the non-compliance or risk persists, authorities can ensure withdrawal, recall, prohibition, or restriction and inform the public, the Commission, and other Member States.
Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 supplies the broader market-surveillance machinery for EU harmonisation legislation. It defines corrective action as action by an economic operator to end non-compliance, either because an authority requires it or on the operator's own initiative.
It also lists minimum authority powers: requiring documents and technical information, checking products, entering business premises where allowed by law, opening investigations, requiring corrective action, prohibiting or restricting availability, ordering withdrawal or recall, acquiring samples, and imposing penalties under national rules.
Map the product, economic-operator role, authority request, corrective action, national penalty rule, and EU-wide notification risk before responding to a Machinery Regulation enforcement issue.
"Market surveillance ensures that products on the EU market do not endanger EU workers and citizens."
"Requests for enforcement measures"
"not restricted to their national territory"