S.L. 427.36 Art. 5Market surveillance.

(1) The Market Surveillance Directorate shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that machinery may be placed on the market and, or put into service only if it satisfies the relevant provisions of this Directive and does not endanger the health and safety of persons and, where appropriate, domestic animals and property and, where applicable, the environment, when such machinery is properly installed and maintained and used for its intended purpose or under reasonably foreseeable conditions.

(2) The Market Surveillance Directorate shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that partly completed machinery can be placed on the market only if it satisfies the relevant provisions of these regulations.

(3) The Market Surveillance Directorate shall monitor the conformity of machinery and partly completed machinery with the provisions set out in sub-regulations (1) and (2).

(4) The tasks, organisation and powers of the Market Surveillance Directorate shall be defined and notified to the Commission and other Member States.