The following equipment is specifically excluded from the provisions of the Machinery Directive:

• Lifting equipment designed and constructed for raising and/or moving persons with or without loads, except for industrial trucks with elevating operator position.
• Machinery whose only power source is directly applied manual effort, unless it is a machine used for lifting or lowering loads.
• Machinery for medical use used in direct contact with patients.
• Special equipment for use in fairgrounds and/or amusement parks.
• Steam boilers, tanks and pressure vessels.
• Machinery specially designed or put into service for nuclear purposes which, in the event of failure, may result in an emission of radioactivity.
• Radioactive sources forming part of a machine.
• Firearms.
• Storage tanks and pipelines for petrol, diesel fuel, inflammable liquids and dangerous substances.
• Means of transport, ie vehicles and their trailers intended solely for transporting passengers by air or on road, rail or water networks, as well as means of transport in so far as such means are designed for transporting goods by air, on public road or rail networks or on water. Vehicles used in the mineral extraction industry shall not be excluded.
• Seagoing vessels and mobile offshore units together equipment on board such vessels or units.
• Cableways for the public or private transport of persons.
• Agricultural and forestry tractors, as defined in Article 1(1) of Council Directive 74/150/EEC' of 4 March 1974 on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to type-approval of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors, as last amended by Directive 88/297/EEC2.
• Machines specially designed and constructed for military or police purposes.