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1. Equipment subject to noise limits and noise marking:
- Builders’ hoists for the transport of goods (combustion-engine driven)
- Compaction machines (only vibrating and non-vibrating rollers, vibratory plates and vibratory rammers)
- Compressors (<350 kW)
- Concrete-breakers and picks, hand-held
- Construction winches (combustion-engine driven)
- Dozers (<500 kW)
- Dumpers (<500 kW)
- Excavators, hydraulic or rope-operated (<500 kW)
- Excavator-loaders (<500 kW)
- Graders (<500 kW)
- Hydraulic power packs
- Landfill compactors, loader-type with bucket (<500 kW)
- Lawnmowers (excluding agricultural and forestry equipment, and multi-purpose devices, the main motorised component of which has an installed power of more than 20 kW)
- Lawn trimmers/lawn edge trimmers
- Lift trucks, combustion-engine driven, counterbalanced (excluding ‘other counterbalanced lift trucks’ with a rated capacity of not more than 10 tonnes)
- Loaders (<500 kW)
- Mobile cranes
- Motor hoes (<3 kW)
- Paver-finishers (excluding paver-finishers equipped with a high-compaction screed)
- Power generators (<400 kW)
- Tower cranes
- Welding generators
2. Equipment subject to noise marking only:
- Aerial access platforms with combustion engine
- Brush cutters
- Builders’ hoists for the transport of goods (with electric motor)
- Building site band saw machines
- Building site circular saw benches
- Chain saws, portable
- Combined high pressure flushers and suction vehicles
- Compaction machines (explosion rammers only)
- Concrete or mortar mixers
- Construction winches (with electric motor)
- Conveying and spraying machines for concrete and mortar
- Conveyor belts
- Cooling equipment on vehicles
- Drill rigs
- Equipment for loading and unloading tanks or silos on trucks
- Glass recycling containers
- Grass trimmers /grass edge trimmers
- Hedge trimmers
- High pressure flushers
- High pressure water jet machines
- Hydraulic hammers
- Joint cutters
- Leaf blowers
- Leaf collectors
- Lift trucks, combustion-engine driven, counterbalanced (only ‘other counterbalanced lift trucks’ with a rated capacity of not more than 10 tonnes)
- Mobile waste containers
- Paver finishers (equipped with a high-compaction screed)
- Piling equipment
- Pipelayers
- Piste caterpillars
- Power generators (?400 kW)
- Power sweepers
- Refuse collection vehicles
- Road milling machines
- Scarifiers
- Shredders/chippers
- Snow-removing machines with rotating tools (self-propelled, excluding attachments)
- Suction vehicles
- Trenchers
- Truck mixers
- Water pump units (not for use under water)