prEN 18265

Agricultural machinery - Flax harvesting and conditioning machinery - Safety requirements prEN 18265

Publication date:   Apr 2, 2026

Scope

This document specifies the safety requirements and associated means of verification for the design and
construction of the following mounted, trailed and self-propelled machines for harvesting and conditioning flax:
— single or double flaxpuller, forming 1 or 2 windrows,
— single or double turning machine, for 1 or 2 windrows,
— single or double deseeder , harvesting 1 or 2 windrows,
— combined flaxpuller-deseeder machines,
— flax windrow lifters,
— "Flax-specific" round balers, i.e. those designed and built to collect and prepare the flax windrow for
scutching. They include: trailed, in-line or remote and self-propelled round balers with:
— 1 windrow and 1 binding cell, or
— 2 windrows and 1 or 2 binding cells.
This document does not deal with agricultural pick-up balers designed and equipped to harvest forage or
straw (covered in EN ISO 4254-11).
This document, applied in conjunction with EN ISO 4254-1:2015, deals with all the significant hazards
(as listed in Table D.1), hazardous situations and events relevant to self-propelled machines for harvesting and conditioning flax, when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer (see Annex D).
NOTE For traffic on public roads, national highway codes apply (e.g. braking, driving, lighting, coupling) as long as harmonised requirements are not available.
In addition, it specifies the type of information that the manufacturer shall give on safe use practices.
This document does not apply to machinery for harvesting and conditioning flax manufactured before the date of publication.

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