oSIST prEN 17745:2022

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
oSIST prEN 17745:2022
01-november-2022
Kmetijski in gozdarski stroji - Okoljevarstvene zahteve za trosilnike granulatov
fitofarmacevtskih proizvodov
Agricultural and forestry machinery - Environmental requirements for granule applicator
of Plant Protection Products
Land- und forstwirtschaftliche Maschinen - Umweltanforderungen für
Granulatstreugeräte für Pflanzenschutzmittel
Matériel agricole et forestier - Exigences environnementales relatives aux épandeurs de
granulés pour l’application de produits de protection des plantes
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN 17745
ICS:
65.060.40 Oprema za nego rastlin Plant care equipment
oSIST prEN 17745:2022 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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DRAFT
EUROPEAN STANDARD
prEN 17745
NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM

September 2022
ICS 65.060.40
English Version

Agricultural and forestry machinery - Environmental
requirements for granule applicator of Plant Protection
Products
Matériel agricole et forestier - Exigences Land- und forstwirtschaftliche Maschinen -
environnementales relatives aux épandeurs de Umweltanforderungen für Granulatstreugeräte für
granulés pour l'application de produits de protection Pflanzenschutzmittel
des plantes
This draft European Standard is submitted to CEN members for enquiry. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee
CEN/TC 144.

If this draft becomes a European Standard, CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations
which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.

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United Kingdom.

Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are
aware and to provide supporting documentation.

Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without
notice and shall not be referred to as a European Standard.


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Contents Page
European foreword . 3
Introduction. 4
1 Scope . 5
2 Normative references . 5
3 Terms and definitions. 5
4 Requirements . 6
4.1 General . 6
4.2 Hoppers . 6
4.3 Metering system . 8
4.4 Distribution systems, controls and regulation systems . 8
5 Test methods . 8
5.1 Test materials and equipment . 8
5.2 Estimation of hopper volume and the graduation scale . 9
5.3 Residual volume of the hopper. 9
5.4 Flow rate . 9
5.5 Flowrate uniformity . 10
5.6 Material output continuity . 10
5.7 Broadcast distribution (only for Type B) . 10
6 Operator’s manual . 10
Annex A (informative) Example of testing material for the tests. 12
Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European Standard and the essential
requirements of Directive 2006/42/EC aimed to be covered . 13
Bibliography . 14

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European foreword
This document (prEN 17745:2022) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 144 “Tractors
and machinery for agriculture and forestry”, the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.
This document is currently submitted to the CEN Enquiry.
This document has been prepared under a Standardization Request given to CEN by the European
Commission and the European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of
EU Directive(s) / Regulation(s).
For relationship with EU Directive(s) / Regulation(s), see informative Annex ZA, which is an integral part
of this document.
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Introduction
The Amendment of the Machinery Directive considers also the environmental requirements of the
equipment for the pesticide application (PAE).
To allow the fulfilment of these requirements, the harmonized standard series EN ISO 16119 has been
produced. However, these standards do not include the granule applicators of Plant Protection Products
(PPP) that are widely distributed in Europe and abroad.
This document defines the environmental requirements of the granule applicators of PPP and the
methods to measure them.
Therefore, this document will have the following major benefits to the manufacturers and authorities.
It will help granule applicator manufacturers in fulfilling the environmental requirements mentioned in
the amendment of the Machinery Directive.
This document is a type-C standard as stated in EN ISO 12100. This document is of relevance, in
particular, for the following stakeholder groups representing the market players with regard to
machinery safety:
— machine manufacturers (small, medium and large enterprises);
— health and safety bodies (regulators, accident prevention organizations, market surveillance etc.).
Others can be affected by the level of machinery safety achieved with the means of the document by the
above-mentioned stakeholder groups:
— machine users/employers (small, medium and large enterprises);
— machine users/employees (e.g. trade unions, organizations for people with special needs);
— service providers, e.g. for maintenance (small, medium and large enterprises);
— consumers (in case of machinery intended for use by consumers).
The above-mentioned stakeholder groups have been given the possibility to participate at the drafting
process of this document. The machinery concerned and the extent to which hazards, hazardous
situations or hazardous events are covered are indicated in the Scope of this document. When
requirements of this type-C standard are different from those which are stated in type-A or type-B
standards, the requirements of this type-C standard take precedence over the requirements of the other
standards for machines that have been designed and built according to the requirements of this type-C
standard.
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1 Scope
This document specifies general constructive and functional requirements and their test methods for
granule applicator with regard to minimizing the potential risk of environmental contamination during
use.
This document deals with all the significant environmental hazards related to the granule applicators.
NOTE Main operator safety requirements are covered by EN ISO 4254-1.
This document is not applicable to granule applicators manufactured before the date of its publication.
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
EN 13739-2:2011, Agricultural machinery — Solid fertilizer broadcasters and full width distributors —
Environmental protection — Part 2: Test methods
ISO 5681:2020, Equipment for crop protection — Vocabulary
ISO 8524:1986, Equipment for distributing granulated pesticides or herbicides — Test method
ISO 9357:1990, Equipment for crop protection — Agricultural sprayers — Tank nominal volume and filling
hole diameter
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 5681:2020 and ISO 8524:1986
and the following apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https://www.iso.org/obp
— IEC Electropedia: available at https://www.electropedia.org/
3.1
granule applicator
appliance for applying granules
[SOURCE: ISO 5681:2020, 3.4.1.2]
3.2
granule band applicator (Type A)
granule applicator that applies in bands or rows
[SOURCE: ISO 5681:2020, 3.4.1.4]
3.3
granule distributor (Type B)
granule applicator for broadcast treatment
[SOURCE: ISO 5681:2020, 3.4.1.3]
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3.4
granule pesticide
plant protection product in solid form (granules, pellets or microgranules) for example made up of an
active and a carrying material
Note 1 to entry: Usually particle size of the material is between 0,15 mm and 2,00 mm.
3.5
dosing system
mechanism which takes the granules from a hopper to transfer them at a constant predetermined flow
rate to the target by a metering system and a distribution system
3.6
flow rate
amount of granules distributed, expressed in mass or volume, per unit of time
3.7
application rate
amount of granules distributed, expressed in mass or volume, per unit of length or surface area, or per
spot
3.8
hopper nominal capacity
total volume which the hopper is designed to contain, expressed as litres
3.9
activation system
system able to activate the metering system independent from the position of the granule applicator
4 Requirements
4.1 General
Equipment and their components shall be reliable and so designed that they can be used in accordance
with their intended use as described in the operator’s manual in order to minimize the potential risk of
environmental contamination.
It shall be possible to connect the necessary measuring instruments to the equipment to check the
functioning of the equipment.
The equipment shall be designed to minimize losses of plant protection products during application and
after the application function has been switched off.
It shall be designed and constructed to facilitate the changing of worn parts without contaminating the
environment.
Compliance shall be checked by visual inspection, measurements, functional test or testing as appropriate
according to Clause 5.
4.2 Hoppers
4.2.1 Filling opening
It shall be present a system able to minimize the risk that undesirable materials of more than 20 mm will
cause blockages (e.g. presence of a grid, deflector) and influence the flow rate or transversal distribution
in a negative way.
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The filling hole diameter of the hopper shall at least
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