# EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230

> The Machinery Regulation modernises EU machinery safety law and, for the first time, brings cybersecurity and AI-enabled safety functions squarely into scope. Where a robot policy performs a safety function, its resilience to manipulation becomes a machinery-safety concern.

Regulation/standard: Regulation (EU) 2023/1230
Timing: Applies 20 January 2027 (Art. 54, as corrected by the Corrigendum of 4 July 2023).

## What it is

- Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 replaces the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.
- It introduces essential health and safety requirements covering protection against corruption and the safety-relevant behaviour of machinery with evolving or autonomous behaviour.
- Software that performs a safety function, and machinery with fully or partially self-evolving behaviour, are explicitly addressed.

## Where a red-team result fits

- **Protection against corruption** — Safety components must be protected against accidental or intentional corruption; a hijackable policy driving a safety function is a corruption pathway.
- **Autonomous behaviour** — Machinery with self-evolving behaviour must remain safe — which requires testing what the policy does under adversarial conditions.

## What Provael maps to it

- Evidence that an AI-driven safety function resists instruction- and perception-level manipulation in simulation.
- A measured redirection rate toward a simulated keep-out-zone violation, with its confidence interval.
- A reproducible trace supporting the technical documentation for a machinery conformity assessment.
- The provael certify command builds a conformity-assessment evidence dossier (OSCAL assessment-results + print-to-PDF HTML) in two profiles: Annex I Part A (third-party route, Article 6(1) → Article 25(2), for self-evolving-behaviour safety components) and Annex III.
- Standing-assurance / per-checkpoint regression maps to Annex III §1.1.9 (safe behaviour across updates).

## Dates (verified 6 Jul 2026)

- Applies: 20 January 2027 (Article 54, as corrected by the Corrigendum of 4 July 2023. Some secondary sources cite an incorrect January date; the correct application date is 20 January 2027.)

## Sources

- Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 (EUR-Lex): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1230/oj
- Corrigendum of 4 July 2023 (EUR-Lex): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L:2023:167:TOC

Canonical: https://www.provael.com/compliance/eu-machinery-regulation

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