488 Parker Hannifin Corporation Fluid Control Division Europe General Catalogue FCDE/0110/UK/V2.0 Fluid Control Solutions Europe General Catalogue FCSE/0112/UK V2.2 07/2022 WHAT ABOUT THE DIRECTIVE ? (2014/34/EU - 19.04.16) The main principles of the new directive can be summarized as follows: • It applies to electric and non-electric equipment. • It defines essential health and safety requirements. • It takes into consideration all potential hazards equipment may cause, in particular at design and production level. • The one directive applies to both mines susceptible to fire damp and surface industries. • It stresses the importance of equipment being used in accordance with its intended purpose. • It recognises The European Standards Committee CEN and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation CENELEC as competent bodies to fix the required harmonised standards. • It provides for the contribution of labour and management. • It defines procedures for assessing conformity to essential requirements, on the basis of modules which qualify equipment to carry the CE mark of conformity. THE FRAMEWORK OF THE DIRECTIVE The directive applies to the industrial field and concerns the following equipment: • Equipment (machines, apparatus, etc.) • Protective systems (discharge devices, explosion suppression devices, etc.) • Components (parts with no autonomous function, terminals, etc.) • Safety devices, controlling devices and regulating devices intended for use outside potentially explosive environments but required for safety with respect to explosions (relays, barriers, pressure switches, thermostats, etc.) APPLICATIONS ATEX 100 A DIRECTIVE - NEW APPROACH 2014/35/EU GROUP II (surface) 76/117/CEE 79/196/CEE 84/047/CEE 88/571/CEE 90/487/CEE 94/026/CEE GROUP I (mines) 82/130/CEE 88/035/CEE 91/269/CEE 94/044/CEE DIRECTIVE (machines) 98/37/CE (ESR 1.5.7) EXPLOSIVE ENVIRONMENTS
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