{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-92/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1999/92",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 1999/92/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1999 on minimum requirements for improving the safety and health protection of workers potentially at risk from explosive atmospheres (15th individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-92",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prevention of and protection against explosions",
  "text": "With a view to preventing, within the meaning of Article 6(2) of Directive 89/391/EEC, and providing protection against explosions, the employer shall take technical and/or organisational measures appropriate to the nature of the operation, in order of priority and in accordance with the following basic principles:\nthe prevention of the formation of explosive atmospheres, or where the nature of the activity does not allow that,\nthe avoidance of the ignition of explosive atmospheres, and\nthe mitigation of the detrimental effects of an explosion so as to ensure the health and safety of workers.\nThese measures shall where necessary be combined and/or supplemented with measures against the propagation of explosions and shall be reviewed regularly and, in any event, whenever significant changes occur.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1999/92/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:03.829782+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."
}