EUR-Lex - 31974D0326 - EN

Article 1

1. Preventive action against risks of accident and occupational risks to the safety and health of workers in all mineral-extracting industries except simple excavation, excluding the protection of the health of workers against the dangers arising from ionizing radiations which is subject to special regulations pursuant to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community shall be the responsibility of the Mines Safety and Health Commission within the terms of reference laid down by Decision of 11 March 1965 of the representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the special Council of Ministers.

1. Mineral-extracting industries shall be taken to mean the activities of prospecting and of extraction in the strict sense of the word as well as of preparation of extracted materials for sale (crushing, screening, washing), but not the processing of such extracted materials.

1. Simple excavation shall be taken to mean work whose purpose is not the extraction of materials for use. (1)OJ No C 40, 8.4.1974, p. 64. (2)OJ No 28, 31.8.1957, p. 487/57. (3)OJ No 46, 22.3.1965, p. 698/65. (4)OJ No C 13, 12.2.1974, p. 1.

Article 2

1. This Decision shall enter into force on the fifth day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

1. It shall apply: - to the underground activities of the mineral-extracting industries : as from the day laid down in paragraph 1;

• to the other activities of the mineral-extracting industries : as from 1 January 1976.

Done at Luxembourg, 27 June 1974.

For the Council

The President

K. GSCHEIDLE