Are machines like printers and other office equipment included in the #MachineryDirective?

The existing machinery directive excluded machines where the hazard sources were primarily electrical as these could be CE marked under the Low Voltage Directive (LVD). The interpretation of the LVD and the existing Machinery Directive, resulted in the unintentional exclusion from the machinery directive of machines on which it could be claimed that the hazards were primarily electrical. In certain cases such an interpretation resulted in only the LVD being applied. This loophole is now closed by specifically listing in the new Machinery Directive the electrical and electronic products which are covered by the LVD as opposed to the new Machinery Directive. They include:
·    Household appliances intended for domestic use
·    Audio and video equipment
·    Information technology equipment
·    Ordinary office machinery
·    Low-voltage switch gear and control gear
·    Electric motors
·    Switch gear, control-gear and transformers
Machinery builders making products not covered by the above exclusions and who previously elected to apply the LVD will not have to apply the new Machinery Directive as well as the LVD.