This document deals with the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events as listed in Clause 4 which are relevant to firewood and dual-purpose circular sawing machines for firewood/circular saw benches, with manual loading and/or unloading, hereinafter referred to as machines, designed to cut solid wood. On Combined circular sawing machines for firewood - Log splitting machines only the circular sawing machine for firewood is covered by this European Standard. For the requirements for the log splitting part of this machine see EN 609-1: 1999 and EN 609-2: 1999. !deleted text" For Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) machines this European Standard does not cover hazards related to Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC). This European Standard does not apply to: - log sawing machines where the saw unit moves to cut the workpiece; - machines where the sawblade is capable of tilting; - hand-held motor-operated electric tools or any adaptation permitting their use in a different mode, i.e. bench mounting; NOTE 1 Hand-held motor-operated electric tools and saw benches to form an integrated whole with a hand-held motor-operated electric tools are covered by EN 60745-1:2006 together with EN 60745-2-5:2007. - machines driven by an internal combustion engine This European Standard is primarily directed at machines which are manufactured after the date of issue of this European Standard. NOTE 2 Machines covered by this European Standard are listed under A.1.1 and/or A.1.2 of annex IV of the Machinery Directive