Machinery Directive Whitepaper

The EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC came into force across Europe on the 30th of December 2009.  The local laws of EU members now enforce local language requirements for Machinery health and safety information including operating, assembly and maintenance instructions.

This must read whitepaper for all companies selling and/or distributing machinery in Europe addresses:

• What needs to be translated and why

• How to minimize the risk of non-compliance

• Why providing local language content can be an asset not a burden

• How to integrated translation into the production workflow

• The role that technology can play in reducing translation costs