2005 No. 3525
The Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors (Amendment) Regulations 2005
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to measures relating to noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section, makes the following Regulations:
Citation and commencementI11
These Regulations may be cited as the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 3rd January 2006.
Amendment to the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors Regulations 2001I22
The Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors Regulations 20013 are amended by substituting for the table in Schedule 3 the table set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.
I3SCHEDULE
Type of equipment | Net installed power P (in kW) Electric power Pela in kW Mass of appliance m in kg Cutting width L in cm | Permissible sound power level in dB/1 pW | |
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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 | 105b |
8 < P ≤ £70 | 109 | 106b | |
P > 70 | 89 + 11 1g P | 86 + 11 1g Pb | |
Tracked dozers, tracked loaders, tracked excavator-loaders | P ≤ 55 | 106 | 103b |
P > 55 | 87 + 11 1g P | 84 + 11 1g Pb | |
Wheeled dozers,wheeled loaders, wheeled excavator-loaders, dumpers, graders, loader-type landfill compactors, combustion-engine driven counterbalanced lift trucks, compaction machines (non-vibrating rollers),paver-finishers, hydraulic power packs | P ≤ 55 | 104 | 101b |
P > 55 | 85 + 11 1g P | 82 + 11 1g Pb | |
Mobile cranes | P ≤ 55 | 104 | 101c |
P > 55 | 85 + 11 1g P | 82 + 11 1g P 101c | |
Excavators, builders' hoists for the transport of goods, construction winches, motor hoes | P ≤ 15 | 96 | 93 |
P > 15 | 83 + 11 1g P | 80 + 11 1g P | |
Hand-held concrete-breakers and picks | m ≤ 15 | 107 | 105 |
15< m < 30 | 94 + 11 1g m | 92 + 11 1g mb | |
m ≥ 30 | 96 + 11 1g m | 94 + 11 1g m | |
Tower cranes | 98 + 1g P | 96 + 1g P | |
Welding and power generators | Pel ≤ 2 | 97 + 1g Pel | 95 + 1g Pel |
2 < Pel ≤ 10 | 98 + 1g Pel | 96 + 1g Pel | |
10 > Pel | 97 + 1g Pel | 95 + 1g Pel | |
Compressors | P ≤ 15 | 99 | 97 |
P > 15 | 97 + 2 1g Pel | 95 + 2 1g Pel | |
Lawnmowers, lawn trimmers/lawn-edge trimmers | L ≤ 50 | 96 | 96 |
50 < L ≤ 70 | 100 | 98 | |
70 < L ≤ 120 | 100 | 100 | |
L > 120 | 105 | 105 | |
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). | |||
a 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 ISO 8528-1:1993, clause 13.3.2. | |||
b For the following types of equipment the figures for Stage I shall continue to apply for Stage II—
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c 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. |
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Sch. in force at 3.1.2006, see reg. 1