The design and construction obligations for placing machinery on the market do not apply to the following products:
1° Products which, although meeting the definition of machinery, are subject, exclusively and specifically, to the provisions arising from the transposition, outside the Labour Code, of European directives defining their design and construction rules;
2° Safety components intended to be used as spare parts to replace identical components and supplied by the manufacturer of the original machine;
3° Specific equipment for fairgrounds or amusement parks;
4° Machinery specially designed or put into service for nuclear use, the failure of which may result in the emission of radioactivity;
5° Weapons, including firearms;
6° The following means of transport:
a) Agricultural or forestry tractors, excluding machinery mounted on these vehicles;
b) Motor vehicles and their trailers covered by the provisions transposing Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers, excluding machinery mounted on such vehicles;
c) Vehicles covered by the provisions transposing Directive 2002/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 March 2002 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles, excluding machinery mounted on such vehicles;
d) Motor vehicles intended exclusively for competition;
e) Means of transport by air, water and rail, excluding machinery mounted on these means of transport;
7° Vessels for maritime navigation and mobile off-shore units, as well as machinery installed on board such vessels or units;
8. Machinery specially designed and constructed for military or law enforcement purposes;
9° Machinery specially designed and constructed for research purposes for temporary use in laboratories;
10° Lifts for mine shafts;
11° Machines designed to move artists during artistic performances;
12° The following electrical and electronic products, insofar as they are covered by the provisions transposing Council Directive 73/23/EEC of 19 February 1973, as amended, on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits:
a) Household electrical appliances ;
b) Audio and video equipment;
c) Data processing equipment ;
d) Standard office machines;
e) Low-voltage connection and control mechanisms;
f) Electric motors;
13° The following high-voltage electrical equipment:
a) Switchgear and control gear ;
b) Transformers.