This document specifies safety and hygiene requirements of clipping machines (hereafter referred to as machine) for closing of casings filled with foodstuffs (hereafter referred to as product) by a clip deformed by a closing tool, and which are intended to be used in butcheries, meat processing factories, main kitchens and other food processing factories.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and hazardous events relevant to machinery when it is used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer (see Annex D).

This document does not cover any devices whose clip is exclusively formed manually.

This document is not applicable to clipping machines manufactured before the date of its publication.