{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-14/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-14/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2000/14",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2000/14/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 May 2000 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-14",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "1. This Directive applies to equipment for use outdoors listed in Articles 12 and 13 and defined in Annex I. This Directive only covers equipment that is placed on the market or put into service as an entire unit suitable for the intended use. Non-powered attachments that are separately placed on the market or put into service shall be excluded, except for hand-held concrete-breakers and picks and for hydraulic hammers.\n2. The following shall be excluded from the scope of this Directive:\nall equipment primarily intended for the transport of goods or persons by road or rail or by air or on waterways,\nequipment specially designed and constructed for military and police purposes and for emergency services.",
  "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/2000/14/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:03.246515+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."
}