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This Standard specifies electrical and flammability safetyrequirements for conveyor belts intended for use in undergroundinstallations, in the presence of flammable or non-flammableatmospheres. Conveyor belts covered by this Standard and intendedfor use in flammable atmospheres are intended for use on conveyorbelt installations (machinery in mines). The belt is a component orpart of equipment, which can be incorporated into the conveyor,which is an equipment of Group I, Category M2, as defined in 3.2.2of EN 13463-1:2009. This Standard is not applicable to lightconveyor belts as described in EN ISO 21183-1:2006 nor is itapplicable to conveyor belts which are manufactured before the dateof publication of this document by CEN. This Standard deals withthose significant hazards detailed in A.1. Attention is drawn toAnnexes ZA and ZB. NOTE A summary of the requirements of thisEuropean Standard is given in Table 2. This is intended for quickreference only.