Our ambition is to give an overview of the mandatory involvement of notified bodies according to the AI Act and the Machinery Regulation. Specifically, we are interested in the cases when both acts are applicable for the same product.

That said, our analysis is not to be taken as legal advice but as policy research and we recommend the reader to cross-examine our conclusions by assessing the acts in relation to the products at hand. It is also worth remembering that the focus of the analysis is when a notified body is mandatory for CE-marking a product – we do not describe what is needed to meet requirements on technology and organisation, and it is always possible to opt to include a notified body in the conformity assessment even if it is not mandatory.

Another limitation is that we do not explore the full interaction between the AI Act and the Machinery Regulation, or how they interact with other policies relevant for CE-marking products intended for EU’s internal market.

Our main conclusions of the analysis are that:

• We should not focus on how the definition of Artificial Intelligence in the AI Act relates to the concept of ”fully or partially self-evolving behaviour using machine learning approaches” as introduced by the Machinery Regulation; but instead

• We should focus on when the Machinery Regulation mandates the involvement of a notified body and how that relates to the AI Act.

We also foresee an up-coming bottleneck in the availability of notified bodies capable of performing the duties in relation to both the AI Act and the Machinery Regulation, something that can have an effect on access to the internal market.

The European Machinery directive gives the requirements for safe machinery, and safe machine control, within the European Union. The European standard EN ISO 13849-1 describes safety-related machine control. This report explains some of the documentation requirements, especially for safety-related machine control systems.

The European Machinery directive gives the requirements for safe machinery, and safe machine control, within the European Union. This report explains some of the requirements, especially for safety-related machine control systems. Practical examples with aspects on machine control are given in annexes to the report.

Automated road transport is regarded as a key enabler for sustainable transport. One example is the use of small automated buses as a supplement to already existing public transport services. There are several manufacturers of these kind of buses, and field trials are in progress.

The goal of the pre-project is to evaluate the feasibility and criteria for transport with automated buses in two middle-sized Nordic municipalities, Lørenskog in Norway and Borås in Sweden, by analyzing at least two different test-cases in each location. Feasibility, adaptation to existing traffic and conditions for public acceptance are described. The pre-project concludes that automated buses are possible in these two municipalities. Further test and demonstrations should be made.