On 20 January 2027, 893 harmonised standards stop giving presumption of conformity under the Machinery Directive. That is not a forecast. It is a date the Commission has already written into the Official Journal, row by row, and this register has captured every one of those rows.
What the date is
Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, the Machinery Regulation, applies from 20 January 2027 and replaces Directive 2006/42/EC from that day. A harmonised standard gives presumption of conformity only for the legal act it is cited under. Every citation in the Commission's Machinery summary list is a citation under the Directive, so every one of them carries the same end date: the day the Directive stops applying.
What the record shows
As of 30 September 2026 the Commission's summary list for Directive 2006/42/EC holds 1,329 distinct references. 893 of them, on 898 rows, carry an end of legal effect of 20 January 2027. The end date was written in three batches: 9 rows by Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/1740 (Official Journal, 14 August 2025), 14 rows by Decision (EU) 2026/546 (13 March 2026) and 875 rows by Decision (EU) 2026/2015 (7 September 2026). The September decision is the one that turned a known legal fact into a dated list entry for almost the whole catalogue.
The 893 include the one type A standard on the list, EN ISO 12100:2010, the risk assessment method that every other machinery standard refers to; 120 type B standards, the generic safety standards such as EN ISO 13849-1, EN ISO 13850 and EN 60204-1; and 777 type C standards, the product standards. The largest families are EN ISO 19085 for woodworking machines (27 references), EN 62841 and EN IEC 62841 for hand-held power tools (43), EN 12312 for aircraft ground support equipment (23), EN 60335 for household appliances used as machinery (22), EN 1034 for paper machines (16), EN 474 for earth-moving machinery (13) and EN ISO 4254 for agricultural machinery (13).
87 of the 898 rows were cited for the first time in 2026. They were added to the Directive's list and given their end date in the same year.
What the record does not show
In the Commission lists this register captures, no harmonised standard is yet cited in support of Regulation (EU) 2023/1230. There is no summary list for the Regulation to capture. Whether the same references will be cited under the Regulation, in the same editions, and before 20 January 2027, is not something the current record can answer. When a list for the Regulation is published, this register will capture it the same day and every reference page will show the new citation next to the old one.
The Commission's own list is the source for all of the above. It carries the columns we show and nothing more: the reference, the citing decision, the Official Journal date and the end of legal effect. It does not say what a manufacturer should do on 21 January 2027, and neither does this page.
How to use this
The full list of 893 references, sortable by series and status, is at the Machinery standards ceasing 20 January 2027 hub. Each reference has its own dated page and a live status badge. Paste a technical file's standards list into the checker to see which entries carry the date. Every page is rebuilt daily from the archived lists; if the Commission moves a date or cites a standard under the Regulation, the change appears on the changelog the day it is captured.