The Commission of the European Union (EU) has published an updated list of standards that can be used to demonstrate conformity with the essential requirements of its directive concerning equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres.
The directive, 94/9/EC, which is also known as the ATEX Directive, applies to “machines, apparatus, fixed or mobile devices, control components and instrumentation…and detection or prevention systems which…are intended for the generation, transfer, storage, measurement, control and conversion of energy and/or the processing of material,” and “which are capable of causing an explosion through their own potential sources of ignition.”
The updated list of standards was published in August 2012 in the Official Journal of the European Union, and replaces all previously published standards lists for the ATEX Directive.
