EN 16034
| EN 16034:2014 | |
|---|---|
| EN Standard | |
| Reference | EN 16034:2014 |
| Type | Product standard |
| Status | Published 30 April 2015 |
| Title | Pedestrian doorsets, industrial, commercial, garage doors and openable windows - Product standard, performance characteristics - Fire resisting and/or smoke control characteristics |
| Committee | CEN/TC 33 |
| Work Item | 00033473 |
| Directives | 305/2011 |
| Mandate | M/101 |
| Citation in OJEU | 305/2011 (C 226, 2015-07-10) |
| CE marking |
Only in combination with either: |
| Normative reference | |
Only in combination with either:
EN 16034 refers to a set of European standards which specify the technical performance characteristics for fire resisting and/or smoke control products, or better known in common language as fire/smoke doors or fire/smoke proof doors. Compliance with this standard requires to fulfill the requirements of the Construction Product Regulation for construction products (short CPR), which are placed on the EU market with the intention to become permanent parts of a construction.
The primary purpose of the CPR is to remove technical barriers to trade for product manufacturers within the Internal market through the development and adoption of common European technical specifications (harmonised product standards and European Technical Approvals (ETAs) in case there is no harmonised product standard yet).
With the publication of EN 16034 conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn within a transitional period of 3 years (co-existence period). Product manufacturers can sell their products throughout Europe by complying with a single common specification recognised and accepted by all Member States, rather than having to test and comply with different national standards in each of them.
EN 16034 shall be implemented on a national level by national standardization bodies. Any conflicting national standards and / or national regulations have to be withdrawn latest when the co-existence period ends. The national editions of the standard receive the code of the national standardization body as prefix - for example DIN EN 16034 in Germany or UNI EN 16034 in Italy.
Products which are covered by EN 16034 have to be CE marked when placed on the market. CE marking enables free trade within all Member States. This is a major change as the affixing of the CE marking under the provisions of the old Construction Products Directive (CPD) which has been replaced by the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) was wrongly considered to be voluntary.
prEN 14351-2 is still a standard under review and therefore not an official standard yet. The formal vote (UAP) has not been held and there are still points to clarify by the CEN consultants. At least one year of delay can be expected (as of June 2016).
Most fire rated doors are used as internal doors (around 90% of the European market in terms of quantity). Given that EN 16034 can only be used in conjunction with other standards (internal, external, power operated pedestrian doors, industrial doors) and given that the standard for internal doors is a work in progress (prEN 14351-2) the applicability date of 1 November will not change anything for the sector. Most fire rated doors currently still cannot be CE marked.
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