DIRECTIVE 2014/34/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL 

of 26 February 2014 

on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to equipment and protective  systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres 

Article 1  Scope 

1. This Directive shall apply to the following, hereinafter  referred to as ‘products’: (a) equipment and protective systems intended for use in  potentially explosive atmospheres; (b) safety devices, controlling devices and regulating devices  intended for use outside potentially explosive atmospheres

but required for or contributing to the safe functioning of  equipment and protective systems with respect to the risks  of explosion;

(c) components intended to be incorporated into equipment  and protective systems referred to in point (a). 

2. This Directive shall not apply to:

(a) medical devices intended for use in a medical environment; (b) equipment and protective systems where the explosion  hazard results exclusively from the presence of explosive  substances or unstable chemical substances; 

(c) equipment intended for use in domestic and noncommercial environments where potentially explosive  atmospheres may only rarely be created, solely as a result  of the accidental leakage of fuel gas; 

(d) personal protective equipment covered by Council Directive  89/686/EEC of 21 December 1989 on the approximation  of the laws of the Member States relating to personal  protective equipment (1); 

(e) seagoing vessels and mobile offshore units together with  equipment on board such vessels or units; 

(f) means of transport, i.e. vehicles and their trailers intended  solely for transporting passengers by air or by road, rail or  water networks, as well as means of transport in so far as  such means are designed for transporting goods by air, by  public road or rail networks or by water. Vehicles intended  for use in a potentially explosive atmosphere shall not be  excluded from the scope of this Directive; 

(g) the equipment covered by point (b) of Article 346(1) of the  Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union