No L 220/60 Official Journal of the European Communities 8.8.87 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 25 June 1987 ‘amending Directive 84/534/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the permissible sound power level of tower cranes (87/405/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1}, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas provisions, the purpose of which is to limit noise at operators’ positions, and methods of measuring airborne noise differ from one Member State to another, which means that, when applied to tower cranes, they constitute a barrier to trade in such cranes; whereas such provisions should therefore be approximated; Whereas Council Directive 79/113/EEC of 19 December 1978 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the determination of the noise emissions of construction plant and equipment (*), as last amended by Directive 85/405/EEC (%), laid down, in particular, the method to be used for determining airborne noise emitted at the operator’s position by a tower crane; Whereas Article 8 of Council Directive 86/188/EEC of 12 May 1986 on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to noise at work (¢) lays down that Member States shall take appropriate measures in this field; Whereas, at the Council meeting held on 18 and 19 December 1978, the Ministers for the Environment stated that the technical provisions for the measurement of airborne noise emitted at the operator’s position should appear in the Annexes to the separate directives for each machine in question; Whereas all the technical provisions required to determine the noise emission of tower cranes should be consolidated in one directive ; whereas Directive 84/534/EEC (?) should be amended accordingly, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 Directive 84/534/EEC is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 1 (1) is replaced by the following text: ‘1. This Directive shall apply to the permissible sound power level of airborne noise emitted into the environment and the permissible sould pressure level of airborne noise emitted at the operator’s position for tower cranes used to perform work on industrial and building sites.’ 2. Article 3 (1) shall be replaced by the following: ‘1. The approved bodies shall issue an EEC-type examination certificate for — each type of tower crane for which the sound power level of airborne noise emitted into the environment, measured under the conditions set out in Annex I to Directive 79/113/EEC, as amended by Annex I to this Directive, does not exceed the permissible sound power levels given in the following table: (*) OJ No C 267, 23. 10. 1986, p. 4. (2) O] No C 76, 23. 3. 1987, p. 197. (3) O] No C 83, 30. 3. 1987, p. 11. (*) O] No L 33, 8.2.1979, p. 15. (5) O No L 233, 30. 8. 1985, p. 9. (5) O No L 137, 24. 5. 1986, p. 28. () O] No L 300, 19. 11. 1984, p. 130.