Pressure Equipment Directive (EU)
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The Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) 2014/68/EU (formerly 97/23/EC)[1] of the EU sets out the standards for the design and fabrication of pressure equipment ("pressure equipment" means steam boilers, pressure vessels, piping, safety valves and other components and assemblies subject to pressure loading) generally over one litre in volume and having a maximum pressure more than 0.5 bar gauge. It also sets the administrative procedures requirements for the "conformity assessment" of pressure equipment, for the free placing on the European market without local legislative barriers. It has been mandatory throughout the EU since 30 May 2002, with 2014 revision fully effective as of 19 July 2016.[2] This is enacted in the UK as the Pressure Equipment Regulations (PER). The set out standards and regulations regarding pressure vessels and boilers safety is also very close to the US standards defined by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). This enables most international inspection agencies to provide both verification and certification services to assess compliance to the different pressure equipment directives.[3] From the pressure vessel manufactures PED does not generally require a prior manufacturing permit/certificate/stamp as ASME does.
Contents[]
- Scope and Definitions (including exemptions of its scope)
- Market surveillance
- Technical requirements: classification of pressure equipment according to type and content.
- Free movement
- Presumption of conformity
- Committee on technical standards and regulations
- Committee on Pressure Equipment
- Safeguard clause
- Classification of pressure equipment
- Conformity assessment
- European approval for materials
- Notified bodies
- Recognized third-party organisations
- User inspectorates
- CE marking
- Unduly affixed CE marking
- International co-operation
- Decisions entailing refusal or restriction
- Repeal
- Transposition and transitional provisions
- Addressees of the Directive: the EU member states for implementation in national laws and/or regulations.
- Annex I: Essential safety requirements
- General
- Design
- Manufacturing
- Materials
- Fired or otherwise heated pressure equipment with a risk of overheating (article 3.1)
- Piping
- Specific quantitative requirements for certain pressure equipment
- Appendix II: Conformity assessment tables. Actually diagrams of pressure vs. volume (or diameter for pipes), for classification of equipment in four classes.
- Appendix III: Conformity assessment procedures
- Appendix IV: Minimum criteria to be met when designating the notified bodies (article 12) and the recognised third party organisations (article 13)
- Appendix V: Criteria to be met when authorising user inspectorates (article 14)
- Appendix VI: CE marking
- Appendix VII: Declaration of conformity
Transition to Directive 2014/68/EU[]
Directive 97/23/EC was fully superseded by directive 2014/68/EU from 20 July 2016 onwards. Article 13 of the new directive (classification of pressure equipment) became effective 1 June 2015, replacing article 9 of directive 97/23/EC.[4]
See also[]
References[]
External links[]
- Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament (Pressure Equipment Directive)
- Essential links for CE Marking in the UK
- Engineering equipment
- European Union directives
- Gas technologies
- Pressure vessels
- Structural engineering standards
- 1997 in law
- 1997 in the European Union
- 2014 in law
- 2014 in the European Union
- Engineering stubs