This document specifies requirements for the drafting and presentation of European machinery safety standards and standards for safety components, primarily to achieve consistency and acceptable quality, throughout the programme, of the various standards to be prepared (also to meet the requirements of the Mandates from the European Commission).It also gives requirements on the criteria for the selection of new work items and for procedures to prepare, produce or revise standards in an efficient and effective way.This document gives requirements which are additional to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations — Part 3 (based on ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2) when