A supply-chain duties map plus the evidence artifacts each role must produce.
Focus: route selection (Annex I + Article 25) + EHSR evidence (Annex III) + technical file (Annex IV).
Structured answer sets in this page tree.
Cited legal and guidance references.
Machinery compliance is operational: you classify product type and Annex I category, choose the Article 25 route, run an Annex III risk assessment and protective measures design, compile Annex IV technical documentation, and issue the correct declaration(s). This page turns the Regulation into a requirements-to-evidence control set you can apply across many product families and suppliers.
A machinery program is easier to operate when every obligation falls into one of four buckets: classification, safety, evidence, and market readiness.
Those pillars also make ownership and audit trails clearer.
Manufacturers remain responsible for conformity even where a notified body is involved. The job is to build the route logic and the evidence chain before placing on the market.
That evidence chain should be exportable by product family.
The Regulation does not simply say digital delivery is allowed. It sets concrete conditions that teams can and should test.
Treat those conditions as product requirements, not as a publishing afterthought.
Importers and distributors must verify the visible compliance pack and cooperate with authorities. They also need access to information in paper or digital form on reasoned request.
A receiving checklist is usually the cleanest way to operationalize these duties.
A substantial modification is a physical or digital change after placing on the market or putting into service that was not foreseen or planned by the manufacturer, creates a new hazard or increases an existing risk, and requires new significant protective measures.
When that happens, the modifier can become the manufacturer for the affected machinery or related product.
The Regulation is explicit about software identification, intervention evidence, and log retention. Those details should sit in the requirements matrix, not in an engineer's memory.
Use the requirements matrix to connect each software obligation to an owner and a file path.
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