1、PD CEN/TR 15953:2009 ICS 71.100.30 NO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAW PUBLISHED DOCUMENT Pyrotechnic articles Other pyrotechnic articles, category P1 and P2 Overview of harmonized standards that will be developed by CEN/TC 212/WG 5This Published Document was publi
2、shed under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 December 2009 BSI 2009 ISBN 978 0 580 67606 2 Amendments/corrigenda issued since publication Date Comments PD CEN/TR 15953:2009 National foreword This Published Document is the UK implementation of CEN/TR 15953:2009. The U
3、K participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee CII/47, Pyrotechnic articles. A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary. This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are
4、responsible for its correct application. Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.PD CEN/TR 15953:2009TECHNICAL REPORT RAPPORT TECHNIQUE TECHNISCHER BERICHT CEN/TR 15953 October 2009 ICS 71.100.30 English Version Pyrotechnic articles - Other pyrotechnic articl
5、es, category P1 and P2 - Overview of harmonized standards that will be developed by CEN/TC 212/WG 5 Articles pyrotechniques - Autres articles pyrotechniques de catgories P1 et P2 - Vue densemble des normes harmonises qui seront labores par le CEN/TC 212/WG 5 Pyrotechnische Gegenstnde - Sonstige pyro
6、technische Gegenstnde, Kategorien P1 und P2 - berblick ber harmonisierte Normen, die von CEN/TC 212/WG 5 erarbeitet werden This Technical Report was approved by CEN on 17 August 2009. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 212. CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria
7、, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITT
8、EE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels 2009 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. CEN/TR 15953:2009: EPD CEN/TR 15953:2009 CE
9、N/TR 15953:2009 (E) 2 Contents Page Foreword 3 Introduction .4 1 Scope 5 2 Terminology .5 3 Interfaces between Working Groups .7 4 List of Other Pyrotechnic Articles and definitions .9 5 Criteria to determine whether an article belongs to Category P1 or P2 . 11 6 Harmonized Standards . 12 7 Projects
10、 to be initiated within WG 5 (List and Mandates) 14 8 Future Work Program (Objectives, Tasks, Time targets) . 16 Annex A (informative) Definition of Other Pyrotechnic Articles Complementary Information . 19 Annex B (informative) Field of Use . 21 Annex C (informative) List of “Other Pyrotechnic Arti
11、cles“ and definitions 22 Annex D (informative) List of Generic Types and definitions 27 Annex E (informative) Interpretation of “Low Hazard“ - Examples . 30 Bibliography . 31 PD CEN/TR 15953:2009 CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 3 Foreword This document (CEN/TR 15953:2009) has been prepared by Technical Commit
12、tee CEN/TC 212 “Pyrotechnic articles”, the secretariat of which is held by NEN. This document (CEN/TR 15953:2009) has been prepared by Working Group 5 “Other pyrotechnic articles” of Technical Committee CEN/TC 212 “Pyrotechnic articles”, the convenor and secretary of which are French. Experts from e
13、leven countries have participated in its elaboration: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands and United Kingdom. It has been approved by votes of all the members of CEN/TC 212 “Pyrotechnic articles” on August 2009. PD CEN/TR 15953:2009
14、CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 4 Introduction Directive 2007/23/EC of May 23 rd2007 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles, has been published on June 14 th2007 in the Official Journal of the European Community. (Ref. Mandate M 416). In its Annex 1, Directive 2007/23/EC gives the essential safe
15、ty requirements (ESR) pyrotechnic articles shall comply with. In order to facilitate the process of demonstrating compliance with these ESR, harmonized standards for the design, manufacture and testing of pyrotechnic articles must be developed. CEN has been mandated by the European Commission (EC) t
16、o develop these harmonized standards: Mandate M 416 describes the work that CEN shall perform. CEN has entrusted coordination of this work to CEN/TC 212 Pyrotechnic articles with the following scope: “Standardization of fireworks, theatrical pyrotechnic articles, pyrotechnic articles for vehicles an
17、d other pyrotechnic articles, particularly from the point of view of their safe use”. During its meeting in Delft on October 16 thand 17 th2007, CEN/TC 212 has decided to share the corresponding work to be done between several Working Groups. Resolutions have been voted to establish five Working Gro
18、ups, one of which is Working Group 5 (CEN/TC 212 / WG 5) in charge of standardization of “Other Pyrotechnic Articles”. Because no European standards exist at present for “Other Pyrotechnic Articles”, preliminary work needs to be performed before a list of standards to be developed by WG 5 can be dra
19、wn up. It has been accepted by CEN/TC 212 and proposed to the European Community a one-year period will be allocated to WG5 to prepare a CEN Technical Report in which its future work program will be described and an overview of the harmonized standards it will develop will be given including the rea
20、sons why WG 5 has proposed to develop these standards. Five work sessions have taken place, respectively in NEN Delft Netherlands on February 7 th2008, in BAM Berlin Germany on May 22 nd2008, in NEN Delft Netherlands on September 9 th2008, in AFNOR Paris France on November 13 th2008 and in UNI Milan
21、o Italy on February 2 2009. The present document is the final draft of the Technical Report for “Other Pyrotechnic Articles”. It has been written in close coordination with the other working groups of CEN/TC 212/WG 1 “Fireworks, Categories 1, 2 and 3”, WG 2 “Fireworks, Category 4”, WG 3 “Theatrical
22、Pyrotechnic articles” and WG 4 “Pyrotechnic articles for vehicles”. PD CEN/TR 15953:2009 CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 5 1 Scope This Technical Report gives an overview of harmonized standards which will be proposed to be developed by CEN/TC 212 WG 5, “Other Pyrotechnic Articles”. Under this expression, it
23、must be understood, are all pyrotechnic articles which are not designed and intended for entertainment purposes (“fireworks”), for indoor or outdoor stage use, including film and television productions or similar use (“theatrical pyrotechnic articles”), and for automotive industry (“pyrotechnic arti
24、cles for vehicles”). It also gives the interpretation WG5 experts have made of some terms, definitions and requirements of Directive 2007/23/EC in order to assure future harmonized standards will encompass all varieties of “other pyrotechnic articles”, which are presently placed on the European mark
25、et, in a consistent way and take the benefit of all the practical experience and usages of those articles in the Member States. 2 Terminology 2.1 Definition of “Other pyrotechnic articles” In its Article 2, Directive 2007/23/EC gives a definition of a “pyrotechnic article” as “any article containing
26、 explosive substances or an explosive mixture of substances designed to produce heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or a combination of such effects through self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions”. Although heat, light, sound, gas or smoke or combination of such effects are more frequently obtain
27、ed through combustive or deflagrating reactions, this definition does not exclude substances or mixture of substances which exhibit a detonative behaviour. WG5 experts have considered that no other interpretation of the definition of pyrotechnic articles given by Directive 2007/23/EC is required. Se
28、e Annex A for further information. 2.2 Other terms Collections of articles: individual item/ article, type, group/family, generic type. The future harmonized standards for “other pyrotechnic articles” will identify the design parameters and performance characteristics to be taken into consideration
29、for the corresponding articles to meet the essential safety requirements of Directive 2007/23/EC. Where appropriate, for each design parameter or performance characteristic they will state requirements and criteria which shall be complied with. According to the large variety of other pyrotechnic art
30、icles and significant differences they exhibit in design, functioning and conditions of use, it is clearly noticeable these articles will not have all in common the same design parameters and performance characteristics. However, collections of articles sharing the same design parameters and perform
31、ance characteristics exist. Then WG 5 experts have considered it was necessary to identify these collections of articles and draw up their list. The future harmonized standards will state requirements and criteria for each identified homogeneous collection, which does not mean there may not exist re
32、quirements or criteria applicable to several collections as well as to all pyrotechnic articles whatever their design or behaviour in normal use. PD CEN/TR 15953:2009 CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 6 The following terms and definitions will be used hereafter and in the harmonized standard(s) to be developed
33、by Working Group5: Type: sample representative of the production envisaged. NOTE 1 This definition corresponds to the use of the term type in Annex II 2(c) of Directive 2007/23/EC for the purposes of type-examination. Generic type: set of articles with a common, very general, design feature and/or w
34、ith a common characteristic effect. Subtype: set of articles within a generic type with specific design features. Individual item: article within a generic type or subtype for which every possible feature and characteristic has been fixed. NOTE 2 Each feature and characteristic will be specified in
35、the technical name or a technical data sheet, as appropriate. Technical name: general description of an individual item. Trade name: description of an individual item from a particular supplier. Family: set of individual items that will be considered together for the purposes of testing and approval
36、. NOTE 3 This last definition is fully compliant with Directive 2007/23/EC which states in “Whereas (18)”: “Groups of pyrotechnic articles that are similar in design, function or behaviour should be assessed by the notified bodies as product families”. The figure hereafter shows how WG 5 experts int
37、end to organize “other pyrotechnic articles” in “individual items” (samples of which will be “types”), “families” and “generic types”, starting from the precise design level to the general design level. Example is given for “smoke generators”. This will be very useful and efficient to clarify and so
38、lve the complexity of their work resulting from the large variety of design of these “other pyrotechnic articles”. Even for a given kind of pyrotechnic article, developed for the same type of use, strong variations in design may exist between manufacturers. At the bottom, “individual items” correspo
39、nd to the various individual smoke generators in a manufacturers product range, under the brand name “Securix”, submitted to conformity assessment procedures by the means of “types”. In the middle are set up “families” of individual items (e.g. family of “Securix Smoke generators”) which may be cons
40、idered together for the purposes of testing and certification in compliance with Directive 2007/23/EC. At the top, the highest level of generalization of the characteristics of types corresponds to “Smoke generators”, independently from who is the manufacturer and what is the typical design within a
41、 product range. WG5 experts think all types of smoke generators can be put together in a unique collection of groups because it is highly possible that the essential safety requirements of Directive 2007/23/EC will only imply design and performance requirements which will be common to every type of
42、smoke generators and none at a lower level (e.g. that of a family). Then WG 5 harmonized standards will only deal with these “generic types”. PD CEN/TR 15953:2009 CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 7 Figure 1 Generic type, family and item For some applications it may be useful to take account of “field of use” (
43、See Annex B). However, WG 5 experts have decided to develop future harmonized standards on generic types, not on the field of use. 2.3 Use of blasting agents and military explosives In its Annex I (4) (a) and (b), Directive 2007/23/EC of 23 May 2007 “on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic artic
44、les” states pyrotechnic articles must contain neither commercial blasting agents, except for black powder or flash composition, nor military explosives. As some T1 and T2 articles and C4 Fireworks, P1 and P2 articles already contain small amounts of explosives (e.g. nitrocellulose with high nitrogen
45、 content, single base or double base propellants one component of which is nitroglycerine) and must not be excluded from the European market as far as they comply with all the other essential safety requirements, except this (4) (a) (b) of Directive 2007/23/EC / Annex I. Hence they must be included
46、within the scope of preparing Standards for “other pyrotechnic articles” and to prepare suitable guidance. CEN/TC 212 will prepare a specific resolution on that topic. 3 Interfaces between Working Groups 3.1 Interfaces between WG 5 and WG 1 WG1 has proposed to transfer: electric igniters used for fi
47、reworks ignition to WG 5 friction-ignited flash bangers to WG 3 or WG 5 whistlers to WG 3 or WG 5 “Electric igniters used for fireworks ignition”: WG 5 accepts this proposal without restriction. PD CEN/TR 15953:2009 CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 8 “Friction-ignited flash bangers” and “whistlers”: WG 5 exper
48、ts consider these products may enter into its scope of work: for instance, they can be used as bird-scaring articles. They can also be used as “theatrical pyrotechnic articles” for indoor or outdoor stage use, including film and television productions or similar use. Is a common harmonized standard
49、appropriate? Answer to this question will be given as early as possible during the development phase of the corresponding harmonized standards: WG 3 and WG 5 experts will compare their respective construction and performance requirements and propose their common view of the problem. At present, WG 5 experts propose to create a corresponding generic type, called “Sound / Noise Emitters”, which will include these two articles as well as other electr
