Only 1 of 91 declarations of conformity already cites the Machinery Regulation

The results

What this means — and what it does not

The declarations analysed are correct for machines placed on the market before 20 January 2027. The figures show how many templates have to be revised for future deliveries: legal basis, standards with the Official Journal date, no person authorised to compile the technical file, reference to module A and — for connected machines — the Cyber Resilience Act in the same declaration.

Method and limits

• Sample: 91 publicly available declarations (81 of conformity, 10 of incorporation) from machine manufacturers' websites, mostly from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, some from Italy; collected in October 2026.
• Excluded: guides, templates and samples, scanned documents without a text layer, declarations for other product types (e.g. electric motors, pressure equipment); at most three documents per manufacturer.
• Analysis: automated text analysis with the normakte delta check; the year is the latest date in the document (14 documents without a date).
• Not a representative survey: with 91 documents the uncertainty is about ±10 percentage points. Results are anonymous; no company is named.