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Product Safety Act (Act No. V Of 2001) Noise Emission In The Environment By Equipment For Use Outdoors (Amendment) Regulations, 2006 (L.N.58 Of 2006 )



L.N. 58 of 2006


PRODUCT SAFETY ACT (ACT NO. V OF 2001)
Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use
Outdoors (Amendment) Regulations, 2006
IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 to 40 of the Product Safety Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and Communications, on the advice of the Malta Standards Authority, has made the following regulations>-
1. (1) The title of these regulations is the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors (Amendment) Regulations, 2006 and they shall be read and construed as one with the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors Regulations, 2002, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.
(2) These regulations transpose Directive 2005#88#EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27th December, 2005 amending Directive 2000#14#EC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors.
(3) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into force on 3rd January, 2006.
2. (1) The second table of Schedule XI of the principal regulations, commencing with the words “Type of equipment”, shall be substituted by the following table>

Citation and commencement.

L.N. 64 of 2002

.

Amends Schedule XI of the principal regulations.

“

Type of equipment Net installed power P

(in kW) Electric power Pel (1) in kW

Mass of appliance

m in kg

Permissible sound power level in dB/1 pW

B 1186

Cutting width

L in cm

Stage I

as from 3 January

2002

Stage II

as from 3 January

2006

Compaction machines (vibrating rollers, vibratory plates, vibratory rammers)

P ≤ 8

108

105(2)

Compaction machines (vibrating rollers, vibratory plates, vibratory rammers)

8 < P ≤ 70

109

106(2)

Compaction machines (vibrating rollers, vibratory plates, vibratory rammers)

P > 70

89 + 11 lg P

86 + 11 lg P(2)

Tracked dozers, tracked loaders, tracked excavator- loaders

P ≤ 55

106

103 (2)

Tracked dozers, tracked loaders, tracked excavator- loaders

P > 55

87 + 11 lg P

84 + 11 lg P(2)

Wheeled dozers, wheeled loaders, wheeled excavator- loaders, dumpers, graders, loader-type landfill compactors, combustion-engine driven counter balanced lift trucks, mobile cranes, compaction machines (non-vibrating rollers), paver-finishers, hydraulic power packs

P ≤ 55

104

101(2) (3)

Wheeled dozers, wheeled loaders, wheeled excavator- loaders, dumpers, graders, loader-type landfill compactors, combustion-engine driven counter balanced lift trucks, mobile cranes, compaction machines (non-vibrating rollers), paver-finishers, hydraulic power packs

P > 55

85 + 11 lg P

82 + 11 lg P(2) (3)

Excavators, builders' hoists for the transport of goods, construction winches, motor hoes

P ≤ 15

96

93

Excavators, builders' hoists for the transport of goods, construction winches, motor hoes

P > 15

83 + 11 lg P

80 + 11 lg P

Hand-held

concrete-breakers and picks

m ≤ 15

107

105

Hand-held

concrete-breakers and picks

15 < m < 30

94 + 11 lg m

92 + 11 lg m(2)

Hand-held

concrete-breakers and picks

m > 30

96 + 11 lg m

94 + 11 lg m

Tower cranes

98 + lg P

96 + lg P

Welding and power generators

Pel ≤ 2

97 + lg Pel

95 + lg Pel

Welding and power generators

2 < Pel ≤ 10

98 + lg Pel

96 + lg Pel

Welding and power generators

10 > Pel

97 + lg Pel

95 + lg Pel

Compressors

P ≤ 15

99

97

Compressors

P > 15

97 + 2 lg P

95 + 2 lg P

B 1187

Lawnmowers, lawn trimmers/lawn-edge trimmers

L ≤50

96

94(2)

Lawnmowers, lawn trimmers/lawn-edge trimmers

50 < L ≤ 70

100

98

Lawnmowers, lawn trimmers/lawn-edge trimmers

70 < L ≤ 120

100

98(2)

Lawnmowers, lawn trimmers/lawn-edge trimmers

L > 120

105

103(2)

(1) Pel for welding generators: conventional welding current multiplied by the conventional load voltage for the lowest value of the duty factor given by the manufacturer.

Pel for power generators: prime power according to MSA ISO 8528-1:2002, clause

13.3.2

(2) The figures for stage II are merely indicative for the following types of equipment:

- Walk-behind vibrating rollers;

- Vibratory plates (>3kW);

- Vibratory rammers;

- Dozers (steel tracked);

- Loaders (steel tracked > 55 kW);

- Combustion-engine driven counterbalanced lift trucks;

- Compacting screed paver-finishers;

- Hand-held internal combustion-engine concrete-breakers and picks (15<m<30)

- Lawnmowers, lawn trimmers/lawn-edge trimmers.

Definitive figures will depend on amendment of the Directive following the report required in Article 20(1) of the Directive. In the absence of any such amendment, the figures for stage I will continue to apply for stage II.

(3) For single-engine mobile cranes, the figures for stage I shall continue to apply until 3rd

January 2008. After that date, stage II figures shall apply.

The permissible sound power level shall be rounded up or down to the nearest integer number

(less than 0.5, use lower number; greater than or equal to 0.5, use higher number)

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Ippubblikat mid-Dipartiment ta’ l-Informazzjoni (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta — Published by the Department of Information (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta

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