Outdoors (Amendment) Regulations, 2006

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,888, 3 ta’ Marzu, 2006

L.N. 58 of 2006

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(ACT NO. V OF 2001)

Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use

Outdoors (Amendment) Regulations, 2006

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 to 40 of the

Product Safety Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and

Communications, on the advice of the Malta Standards Authority, has

made the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Noise Emission in Citation and

the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors (Amendment) commencement.

Regulations, 2006 and they shall be read and construed as one with the

Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors

Regulations, 2002, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”. L.N. 64 of 2002.

(2) These regulations transpose Directive 2005#88#EC of

the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 th December, 2005

amending Directive 2000#14#EC on the approximation of the laws of

the Member States relating to the noise emission in the environment by

equipment for use outdoors.

(3) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on 3 rd January, 2006.

(1) The second table of Schedule XI of the principal Amends Schedule

XI of the principal

regulations, commencing with the words “Type of equipment”, shall regulations.

be substituted by the following table>

“

Type of equipment

Net installed power P

Permissible sound power level

(in kW)

in dB/1 pW

Electric power

P el ( 1 ) in kW

Mass of appliance

m in kg

Cutting width

L in cm

Stage I

Stage II

as from 3 January

as from 3 January

P ≤ 8

105( 2 )

Compaction machines

(vibrating rollers,

8 < P ≤ 70

106( 2 )

vibratory plates,

86 + 11 lg P( 2 )

vibratory rammers)

P > 70

89 + 11 lg P

P ≤ 55

103 ( 2 )

Tracked dozers,

tracked loaders,

84 + 11 lg P( 2 )

P > 55

87 + 11 lg P

tracked excavator-

loaders

Wheeled dozers,

P ≤ 55

101( 2 ) ( 3 )

wheeled loaders,

82 + 11 lg P( 2 ) ( 3 )

P > 55

85 + 11 lg P

wheeled excavator-

loaders, dumpers,

graders, loader-type

landfill compactors,

combustion-engine

driven counter

balanced lift trucks,

mobile cranes,

compaction machines

(non-vibrating rollers),

paver-finishers,

hydraulic power packs

P ≤ 15

Excavators, builders'

hoists for the transport

P > 15

83 + 11 lg P

80 + 11 lg P

of goods, construction

winches, motor hoes

m ≤ 15

Hand-held

concrete-breakers and

92 + 11 lg m( 2 )

15 < m < 30

94 + 11 lg m

picks

m > 30

96 + 11 lg m

94 + 11 lg m

Tower cranes

98 + lg P

96 + lg P

P el ≤ 2

Welding and power

97 + lg P el

95 + lg P el

generators

2 < P el ≤ 10

98 + lg P el

96 + lg P el

10 > P el

97 + lg P el

95 + lg P el

P ≤ 15

Compressors

P > 15

97 + 2 lg P

95 + 2 lg P

L ≤50

94( 2 )

Lawnmowers, lawn

trimmers/lawn-edge

50 < L ≤ 70

trimmers

70 < L ≤ 120

98( 2 )

103( 2 )

L > 120

P el for welding generators: conventional welding current multiplied by the conventional

load voltage for the lowest value of the duty factor given by the manufacturer.

P el for power generators: prime power according to MSA ISO 8528-1:2002, clause

3.2

The figures for stage II are merely indicative for the following types of equipment

- Walk-behind vibrating rollers;

- Vibratory plates (>3kW);

- Vibratory rammers;

- Dozers (steel tracked);

- Loaders (steel tracked > 55 kW);

- Combustion-engine driven counterbalanced lift trucks;

- Compacting screed paver-finishers;

- Hand-held internal combustion-engine concrete-breakers and picks (15<m<30)

- Lawnmowers, lawn trimmers/lawn-edge trimmers.

Definitive figures will depend on amendment of the Directive following the report

required in Article 20(1) of the Directive. In the absence of any such amendment, the

figures for stage I will continue to apply for stage II.

For single-engine mobile cranes, the figures for stage I shall continue to apply until 3 rd

January 2008. After that date, stage II figures shall apply.

The permissible sound power level shall be rounded up or down to the nearest integer number

(less than 0.5, use lower number; greater than or equal to 0.5, use higher number)

”.

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