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Selling machinery in Austria from 2027
Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applies in the same way across the EU, but each country decides languages, penalties and who enforces. Machinery manufacturers in Austria: about 1,426 (Eurostat 2022). Here is what we found.
Transitional rulesTo be verified
- National law
- Bridging rules in the Machinery Safety Ordinance 2010 (amended in 2025); the final implementing act has not been published yet.(To be verified)
- Penalties
- Not published yet.(To be verified)
- Mandatory languages
- German.
- Who enforces
- BEV (Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying), the new market surveillance authority.(To be verified)
Data collected on 2026-10-22 from public sources. We did not always find the official text: check it in the national gazette and with your CE consultant before relying on it.
How TARGA helps
- Set Austria among the delivery countries of a serial number and TARGA warns you if a mandatory language is missing (German).
- The manual is composed for the configuration of each serial number and translated with AI plus human review, using your glossary.
- The QR page picks the language from the visitor's browser and says whether it shows the original or a translation.
- Published versions stay online for at least 10 years, and paper copy requests arrive with their one-month deadline.
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