{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-104/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1992/104",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 92/104/EEC of 3 December 1992 on the minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers in surface and underground mineral-extracting industries (twelfth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-104",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purpose of this Directive:\n(a) surface and underground mineral-extracting industries shall mean all industries practising:\nsurface or underground extraction, in the strict sense of the word, of minerals, and/or\nprospecting with a view to such extraction, and/or\npreparation of extracted materials for sale, excluding the activities of processing the materials extracted,\nexcluding the mineral-extracting industries through drilling defined in Article 2 (a) of Directive 92/91/EEC;\n(b) workplace shall mean the whole area intended to house workstations, relating to the immediate and ancillary activities and installations of the surface or underground mineral-extracting industries, including overburden dumps and other tips and accommodation, where provided, to which workers have access in the context of their work.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/104/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:20.654450+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}