Pressure Equipment Directive (EU)

Contents

1. Scope and Definitions (including exemptions of its scope)
2. Market surveillance
3. Technical requirements: classification of pressure equipment according to type and content.
4. Free movement
5. Presumption of conformity
6. Committee on technical standards and regulations
7. Committee on Pressure Equipment
8. Safeguard clause
9. Classification of pressure equipment
10. Conformity assessment
11. European approval for materials
12. Notified bodies
13. Recognized third-party organisations
14. User inspectorates
15. CE marking
16. Unduly affixed CE marking
17. International co-operation
18. Decisions entailing refusal or restriction
19. Repeal
20. Transposition and transitional provisions
21. Addressees of the Directive: the EU member states for implementation in national laws and/or regulations.

• Annex I: Essential safety requirements
  1. General
  2. Design
  3. Manufacturing
  4. Materials
  5. Fired or otherwise heated pressure equipment with a risk of overheating (article 3.1)
  6. Piping
  7. Specific quantitative requirements for certain pressure equipment
• Appendix II: Conformity assessment tables. Actually diagrams of pressure vs. volume (or diameter for pipes), for classification of equipment in four classes.
• Appendix III: Conformity assessment procedures
• Appendix IV: Minimum criteria to be met when designating the notified bodies (article 12) and the recognised third party organisations (article 13)
• Appendix V: Criteria to be met when authorising user inspectorates (article 14)
• Appendix VI: CE marking
• Appendix VII: Declaration of conformity