2.10. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 270/23 COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 17 September 1990 amending Directive 79/196/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning electrical equipment for use in potentially explosive atmospheres employing certain types of protection (90/487/EEC) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regafd to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in" particular Article 100a thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, in cooperation with the European Parliament ('), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (), Whereas Council Directive 76/117/EEC of 18 December 1975 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning electrical equipment for use in potenti- ally explosive atmospheres (%), as last aménded by the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal to the Community has, in particular, set out the inspection procedures which this equipment must satisfy in order to be imported, put on the market and used freely after undergoing the tests and being provided with the mark and marking pres- cribed ; Whereas Article 4 (4) of Directive 76/117/EEC provides that separate Directives shall specify the harmonized stan- dards applicable in all the Member States in respect of such equipment; ‘ 1. the following is added to Article 1: ‘— encapsulation “m” “:n — intrinsically safe electrical systems “i A Whereas Directive 79/196/EEC (¥), as last amended by Directive 88/665/EEC.(°), achieved the free movement of electrical equipment by applying the types of protection listed in Article 1 thereof, and lists in detail in Annex 1 the relevant harmonized standards ; Whereas, in view of the current state of the art, harm- onized standards for other types of protection and for specific equipment are available ; whereas, in order to achieve the free movement of equipment employing these new types of protection, it is necessary to extend the scope of Directive 79/196/EEC to include those types; whereas it is therefore necessary to amend the said Direc- tive, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE : Article 1 Directive 79/196/EEC is hereby amended as follows : 2. references to the. following European standards are added to Annex I: ‘EN 50028 | Electrical apparatus for poténtially explosive atmospheres: | 1 encapsulation “m EN 50039 | Electrical apparatus for potentially explosive atmospheres: | 1 intrinsically safe electrical systems EN 50050 | Electrostatic hand-held spraying equipment 1 EN 50053 | Hand-held electrostatic paint spray guns with an energy limit | 1 of 0,24 m]J and their associated apparatus PART 1 EN 50053 | Hand-held electrostatic powder spray guns with an energy limit | 1 of 5 mJ and their associated apparatus PART 2 EN 50053 | Held-held electrostatic flock spray guns with an energy limitof | 1 0,24 mJ or 5 m]J and their associated apparatus PART 3 February 1987 March 1980 January 1986 February 1987 () June 1989 () June 1989 () (') Only the paragraphs dealing with the construction of apparatus, provided for in standards EN 50053 parts 1, 2 and 3, shall apply’ () OJ No C 149, 18. 6. 1990, p. 143 and Decision of 12 Septem- ber 1990 (not yet published in the Official Journal). () OJ No C 168, 10. 7. 1990, p. 4. () OJ No L 24, 30. 1. 1976, p. 45. () O) No L 43, 20. 2. 1979, p. 20. () OJ No L 382, 31. 12. 1988, p. 42.