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 non-commercial 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.
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