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Selling machinery in the Netherlands 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 the Netherlands: about 3,517 (Eurostat 2022). Here is what we found.
National decree publishedTo be verified
- National law
- Warenwetbesluit machines 2026 (Commodities Act Decree on machinery), published in the Staatsblad in 2026.(To be verified)
- Penalties
- Fixed-rate administrative fines (€525 or €1,050 per breach); economic offences in serious cases.(To be verified)
- Mandatory languages
- Dutch for instructions, safety information, assembly instructions and declarations.
- Who enforces
- Netherlands Labour Authority and NVWA.(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.
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- Set Netherlands among the delivery countries of a serial number and TARGA warns you if a mandatory language is missing (Dutch).
- The manual is composed for the configuration of each serial number and translated with AI plus human review, using your glossary.
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- Published versions stay online for at least 10 years, and paper copy requests arrive with their one-month deadline.
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