01
Classification
High risk
Safety components with self-evolving behavior, or AI ensuring a safety function, can land in the Annex I list.
Free briefing · for 2027
AI is coming to your machines. The regulation is ready. Are you?
From 20 January 2027 the Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applies, with raised requirements for systems with self-evolving behavior. The briefing shows what changes and how a verifiable Behavior Reference (BR) supplies the material for the evidence.
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01 — The problem
AI raises three
compliance questions.
The Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 deals with self-evolving behavior head-on. If that touches your machines, three questions are now on the table.
02
Procedure
Notified body
Those categories call for third-party conformity assessment — self-certification is then no longer an option.
03
Evidence
Provenance of behavior
Can you show that your specification decided how the machine behaves — and not a learning system?
02 — What's inside
Clarity
before the deadline.
Not a legal opinion. An orientation for engineering, quality and management — with a check that settles the question of exposure in a minute.
What changes on 20 January 2027The regulation replaces the directive and addresses systems with self-evolving behavior directly.
When a machine counts as high riskThe two triggers — and what a notified body means for your actual process.
The provable-behavior answerHow a Behavior Reference (BR) keeps behavior deterministic, humanly defined and auditable.
The conformity backboneRisk assessment, technical file, user manual, state of the art — plus a 60-second check.
What the briefing does not do
It is not legal advice and it replaces no conformity assessment. A normative behavior reference supplies the material for the evidence — the conformity assessment itself stays with the machine manufacturer.
03 — Who it's for
For machine builders
preparing for 2027.
And for their engineering, compliance and quality teams — wherever the evidence has to be defended later.
A passed acceptance test is a snapshot of a sample. Evidence has to hold beyond the moment it was taken.
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The next step
In 2027, what will you use to show that your specification determined the behavior?
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