M/398 - Agricultural Tractors
Mandate to CEN and CENELEC for standardisation in the field of agricultural tractors - Roll-over protection for passengers
Mandate M/398 directs CEN and CENELEC to develop standards related to agricultural tractors, specifically focusing on roll-over protection systems for passengers. The goal is to enhance safety by standardizing protective measures that minimize injury risks during roll-over incidents. This mandate aims to harmonize safety requirements across the European Union, ensuring consistent protection levels for tractor passengers. The decision involves the approval or rejection of this standardisation task as recorded in resolution CEN/BT C11/2007.
Purpose
The mandate M/398 concerns the development of European standards related to agricultural tractors, focusing specifically on roll-over protection for passengers. Its primary aim is to enhance safety measures to protect individuals seated on or operating agricultural tractors by addressing roll-over risks.
Standardisation request
The mandate tasks the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) with creating harmonized standards dealing with roll-over protection systems for passengers of agricultural tractors. This includes specifying performance requirements and test methods to ensure effective protection.
Expected deliverables
- Harmonised European standards for roll-over protective structures (ROPS) applicable to passenger safety on agricultural tractors.
- Technical specifications and guidelines that manufacturers, regulators, and testing bodies can follow to implement consistent safety measures.
- Standards that support compliance with relevant EU safety regulations or directives concerning agricultural machinery.
Context
Agricultural tractors are essential but potentially hazardous machinery on farms, with roll-over incidents posing serious safety risks to passengers and operators. This mandate reflects the EU's commitment to improve occupational and agricultural safety through standardized technical requirements. While the input focuses on passenger protection, this is part of broader efforts to mitigate risks associated with agricultural machinery within the EU legislative framework.
The mandate covers standardisation work related to agricultural tractors, specifically focusing on roll-over protection systems for passengers. It aims to develop standards ensuring the safety of passengers during tractor roll-overs.
General Information
This European standard specifies the additional requirements for cableless control systems that are used in forestry machinery. The fundamental requirements are defined in the standard prEN 62745. Cableless control systems for the following forestry machines are treated in this standard:
- forestry cable winches according to ISO 19472, winches for log splitters;
- self-propelled machinery for forestry according to EN ISO 11850 (machines for felling, moving and debranching, forwarders, log loaders, skidders, processors, harvesting machines, mulchers as well as multipurpose machines of these construction types, as described in ISO 6814); the definitive part of the standard defines essential requirements for the driving function of the machine;
- mobile yarders for timber logging corresponding to prEN 16517;
- log splitters and combined firewood splitters according to EN 609 1:2016, 5.9.2.1 Chipping machines according to EN 13525 and chipping machines with mechanical feed systems for the production of woodchips and shredding /grinding machines;
- forestry boom loader and similar devices that are used on self-propelled machinery and trailers for forestry according to EN ISO 11850 and, as indicated above, for timber transport, timber loading, the loading of forestry goods or forestry products as well as for the handling and arrangement of timber harvesters, felling attachments, machines for felling and moving, attachments, saw heads, gripper-saw combinations with or without load or similar devices and machines, insofar they are not treated in EN 12999. Forestry boom loader can be a component of the forestry machine on which they are mounted.
- Standard42 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This document specifies the requirements and test procedures for 360° visibility of sit-on self-propelled variable-reach trucks and masted container trucks (herein after referred to as trucks) without a load, specifically designed for the transport of freight containers of 6 m (20 ft) length and longer, in accordance with ISO 5053 1, equipped with a spreader and it is intended to be used in conjunction with EN 16842-1.
Where specific requirements in this part are modified from the general requirements in EN 16842-1, the requirements of this part are truck specific and to be used for sit-on self-propelled variable-reach trucks and masted trucks designed for transport of freight containers of 6 m (20 ft) length and longer.
This part of EN 16842 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, relevant to the visibility of the operator for applicable machines when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.
This standard does not apply to trucks equipped with forks.
- Standard13 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This document specifies the requirements and test procedures for 360° visibility of sit-on self-propelled variable-reach trucks and masted container trucks (herein after referred to as trucks) without a load, specifically designed for the transport of freight containers of 6 m (20 ft) length and longer, in accordance with ISO 5053 1, equipped with a spreader and it is intended to be used in conjunction with EN 16842-1.
Where specific requirements in this part are modified from the general requirements in EN 16842-1, the requirements of this part are truck specific and to be used for sit-on self-propelled variable-reach trucks and masted trucks designed for transport of freight containers of 6 m (20 ft) length and longer.
This part of EN 16842 deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events, relevant to the visibility of the operator for applicable machines when used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer.
This standard does not apply to trucks equipped with forks.
- Standard13 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This European standard specifies the additional requirements for cableless control systems that are used in forestry machinery. The fundamental requirements are defined in the standard prEN 62745. Cableless control systems for the following forestry machines are treated in this standard:
- forestry cable winches according to ISO 19472, winches for log splitters;
- self-propelled machinery for forestry according to EN ISO 11850 (machines for felling, moving and debranching, forwarders, log loaders, skidders, processors, harvesting machines, mulchers as well as multipurpose machines of these construction types, as described in ISO 6814); the definitive part of the standard defines essential requirements for the driving function of the machine;
- mobile yarders for timber logging corresponding to prEN 16517;
- log splitters and combined firewood splitters according to EN 609 1:2016, 5.9.2.1 Chipping machines according to EN 13525 and chipping machines with mechanical feed systems for the production of woodchips and shredding /grinding machines;
- forestry boom loader and similar devices that are used on self-propelled machinery and trailers for forestry according to EN ISO 11850 and, as indicated above, for timber transport, timber loading, the loading of forestry goods or forestry products as well as for the handling and arrangement of timber harvesters, felling attachments, machines for felling and moving, attachments, saw heads, gripper-saw combinations with or without load or similar devices and machines, insofar they are not treated in EN 12999. Forestry boom loader can be a component of the forestry machine on which they are mounted.
- Standard42 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This standard is applicable to agricultural and forestry tractors on which provision is made for carrying one person in addition to the driver. It specifies minimum requirements for space and support, specifies roll-over protective structures (ROPS) test procedures and seat belt requirements, by reference to other standards.
It also specifies the information to be provided by the tractor manufacturer.
- Standard27 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This standard is applicable to agricultural and forestry tractors on which provision is made for carrying one person in addition to the driver. It specifies minimum requirements for space and support, specifies roll-over protective structures (ROPS) test procedures and seat belt requirements, by reference to other standards.
It also specifies the information to be provided by the tractor manufacturer.
- Standard27 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
This standard is applicable to agricultural and forestry tractors on which provision is made for carrying one
person in addition to the driver. It specifies minimum requirements for space and support, specifies roll-over
protective structures (ROPS) test procedures and seat belt requirements, by reference to other standards.
It also specifies the information to be provided by the tractor manufacturer.
- Standard10 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
- Standard10 pagesGerman languagee-Library read for1 day
This standard is applicable to agricultural and forestry tractors on which provision is made for carrying one
person in addition to the driver. It specifies minimum requirements for space and support, specifies roll-over
protective structures (ROPS) test procedures and seat belt requirements, by reference to other standards.
It also specifies the information to be provided by the tractor manufacturer.
- Standard10 pagesEnglish languagee-Library read for1 day
- Standard10 pagesGerman languagee-Library read for1 day
Frequently Asked Questions
A European Standardization Mandate is a formal request from the European Commission to the European Standardization Organizations (CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI) to develop European standards (ENs) in support of EU legislation and policies. Mandates are issued under Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 and help ensure that products and services meet the essential requirements set out in EU directives and regulations.
M/398 is a European Standardization Mandate titled "Mandate to CEN and CENELEC for standardisation in the field of agricultural tractors - Roll-over protection for passengers". Mandate to CEN and CENELEC for standardisation in the field of agricultural tractors - Roll-over protection for passengers There are 8 standards developed under this mandate.
Standards developed in response to a mandate and cited in the Official Journal of the European Union become "harmonized standards". Products manufactured in compliance with harmonized standards benefit from a presumption of conformity with the essential requirements of the corresponding EU directive or regulation, facilitating CE marking and market access across the European Economic Area.