To prove conformity with the basic health and safety regulations,
harmonised standards are used. the requirements laid out
in the Official Journal the are met, then will in
compliance with the standard requirements for conformity
(presumption conformity). The ATEX
directive 94/9/EC sets out the basic requirements for health
and safety protection directive following the new concept.
For Germany these are:
1.
The ATEX directive 94/9/EC was transferred into national law.Technicalappendix
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out.
2. For devices of
categories and this conformity check must carried out at
a notified body the form type-examination. The production assembled enclosures monitored
by notified body.4
ATEX directive 94/9/EC
ATEX directive 94/9/EC
Article the European Community Formation Treaty deals
with the equalization laws the Member States.
.
Empty enclosures are components and are certified the
factory such. This is
the category set down the ATEX directive 1999/92/EC
applicable for each appropriate zone. Eleventh supplementary regulation the GPSG (11th
GPSGV), 12/12/1996, Federal Law Gazette 1914, last
amended Article the Act the restructuring the
safety technical equipment and consumer products,
06/01/2004 Federal Law Gazette Part 09/01/2004 17.
This directive sets out the requirements for the products
depending their equipment group and category.
Weidmüller has devices and components its product range.
It aimed manufacturers equipment and components
designed for used potentially explosive atmosphere areas.
Weidmüller offers customer-specific devices available certified
solutions. addition,
quality assurance must monitored for the devices of
categories and 2. For device category the manufacturer
can perform the conformity assessment itself. Various, mostly equivalent,
protection types have been standardised harmoniously (see
table)
This conformity assessment process the directives sets out
different procedures. German Equipment and Product Safety Act (GPSG),
06/01/2004, Federal Law Gazette Part 09/01/2004 2. Installing certified components does not create
a certified equipment
