Directives, Regulations and Standards relating to automatic doors, gates, industrial doors, barriers
Main Directives
2006/42/EC - Machinery Directive (It will be replaced by the New Machinery Regulation)
2014/35/EU - Low Voltage Directive LVD
2014/30/EU - Electromagnetic Compatibility EMC
2014/53/EU - Radio Equipment Directive RED
2011/65/EC - RoHS II Directive - Restriction of the use of hazardous substances
Main Regulations
Technical Standards
EN 12453 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Safety in use of motorised doors, Requirements and test methods
EN 60335-2-95 - Particular requirements for vertical moving garage doors for residential use
EN 16005 - Motorised pedestrian doors - Safety in use, Requirements and test methods
EN 17352 - Power operated pedestrian entrance control equipment - Safety in use - Requirements and test methods
EN 12978 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Safety devices, Requirements and test methods
EN 12100 - Safety of machinery - General principles for design - Risk assessment and risk reduction
EN 13854 - Safety of machinery - Minimum gaps to avoid crushing of parts of the human body
EN 13857 - Safety of machinery - Safety distances to prevent hazardous areas being reached by upper and lower limbs
EN 13849-1 - Safety of machinery - Safety-related parts of control systems, Part 1: General principles for design
EN 13856-2 - Safety of machinery - Pressure-sensitive devices, Part 2 General principles for design
Product Standards - Doors and Gates
EN 13241- Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates –Performance characteristics
EN 12604 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Mechanical aspects - Requirements and test methods
EN 12433-1 - Industrial, commercial, and garage doors and gates. Terminology, Types of doors
EN 12433-2 - Industrial, commercial, and garage doors and gates. Terminology, Parts of doors
EN 12424 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Resistance to wind load – Classification
EN 12444 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Resistance to wind load - Testing and calculation
EN 12425 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Resistance to water penetration – Classification
EN 12489 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Resistance to water penetration, Test method
EN 12426 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates. Air permeability, Classification
EN 12427 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Air permeability - Test method
EN 12428 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors - Thermal transmittance - Requirements for the calculation
EN 16034 - Pedestrian doorsets, industrial, commercial, garage doors - Performance characteristics and Fire resisting and/or smoke control characteristics
EN 16361 - Power-operated pedestrian doors - Pedestrian doors, other than swing doors, initially designed for power-operated installation
prEN 50742:2025 – Safety of Machinery – Electrotechnical aspects – Protection against corruption
