Pressure Equipment Directive - Contents

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 organizations
14. User inspectorates
15. CE marking
16. Unduly affixed CE marking
17. International cooperation
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 overheatinf (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 designationg the notified bodies (article 12) and the recognized third party organizations (article 13)
• Appendix V: Criteria to be met when authorizing user inspectorates (article 14)
• Appendix VI: CE marking
• Appendix VII: Declaration of conformity