Translation of "Machine à choc normalisée " (French → English) :

Until 29 June 2011 Member States may allow the placing on the market and the putting into service of portable cartridge-operated fixing and other impact machinery which are in conformity with the national provisions in force upon adoption of this Directive.

It is appropriate to exclude from the scope of this Directive weapons, including firearms, that are subject to Council Directive 91/477/EEC of 18 June 1991 on control of the acquisition and possession of weapons (6); the exclusion of firearms should not apply to portable cartridge-operated fixing and other impact machinery designed for industrial or technical purposes only.

My kidneys, which for too long were dependent on machines to function; my heart, which repeatedly suffered septic shock and is recovering from an infarction; and my memory, too, are all still healing.

For example, Canada imports as much as 80% of its machinery and equipment, the declining cost of which will help capital-intensive companies deal with the currency shock.

Key aspect of the new strategy is to improve the productivity by investing in new machinery, which allow the production of standardised valves.

- 2 - Remarkable developments during the past years have included: - the economic recovery of the European iron and steel industry, which had shed 41% of its personnel during the 1980s; - the large-scale replacement throughout the economy of traditional machinery by computer-aided and computer-integrated equipment, which has caused a boom for the European mechanical engineering sector; - the decline of energy consumption in EC industry by 10 % since 1973, while at the same time energy consumption in transport increased by 72%; - the increasing German share in the turnover of the 100 largest EC companies (from 22% in 1983 to 30% in 198 ...[+++]9).