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background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center 50%" width="100%" valign="top" align="left"><b> <font face="verdana,arial" color="#000000" size="2"><br> </font></b> <font face="verdana,arial" size="2"><b>Committees - Pressure Equipment</b> <p><img border="0" src="design/newImage4.jpg" align="right" width="284" height="213">PN6 is the Committee that, within PNEUROP, is involved with pressure equipment issues.</p> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Its objective is to become the point of reference for manufacturer, in order to solve all the problems related to the application of European Directives in the area of pressure equipment and to the implementation of corresponding harmonised standards.</p> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Therefore, PN6 activity has been addressed mainly to supporting members in the examination, interpretation and study of the Directive and, above all, to defending the interests of the compressor sector among the competent institutions.</p> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The PN6 Secretariat, ANIMA, attends regularly the PED Orgalime Working Group (where the guidelines are discussed for the next steps) and the Working Group Pressure of the European Commission in order to monitor and to take part in the guidelines preparation and approval process. This activity means that compressor manufacturers have less difficulty in applying the Directive in the technical field.</p> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">The Companies interested in this Committee’s works are the ones that, in their assemblies, make use of equipment covered by the Simple Pressure Vessels Directive and the Pressure Equipment Directive.</p> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">In order to ensure a coherent application of the Pressure Equipment Directive, PN6 has implemented two very important position papers :</p> <blockquote> <i> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">1. Interpretation and clarification paper concerning the applicability of the EC-Directive 97/23/EC “Pressure equipment” for compressors intended as assemblies;</p> <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">2. Interpretation and Clarification Paper concerning the Conformity Assessment of Compressed Air Systems according to PED with annexes with FAQ in order to make this document more useful for manufacturers;</p> </i> </blockquote> <hr noshade color="#ADD6FF"> <p> </p> <p> </font> </td> <td width="15"><img border="0" src="design/spacer.gif" width="15" height="1"> <p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>