1、PD CEN/TR15953:2009ICS 71.100.30NO COPYING WITHOUT BSI PERMISSION EXCEPT AS PERMITTED BY COPYRIGHT LAWPUBLISHED DOCUMENTPyrotechnic articles Other pyrotechnicarticles, category P1and P2 Overview ofharmonized standardsthat will be developedby CEN/TC 212/WG 5This Published Documentwas published under
2、theauthority of the StandardsPolicy and StrategyCommittee on 31 December2009 BSI 2009ISBN 978 0 580 67606 2Amendments/corrigenda issued since publicationDate CommentsPD CEN/TR 15953:2009National forewordThis Published Document is the UK implementation of CEN/TR15953:2009.The UK participation in its
3、preparation was entrusted to TechnicalCommittee CII/47, Pyrotechnic articles.A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained onrequest to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisionsof a contract. Users are responsible for its correct
4、application.Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunityfrom 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 articles, category P1 and P2 - Overv
5、iew 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 pyrotechnische Gegenstnde, Kategor
6、ien 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, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, C
7、zech 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 COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMIT E
8、UROPEN 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 15953:2009CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 2 Contents
9、Page Foreword 3Introduction .41 Scope 52 Terminology .53 Interfaces between Working Groups .74 List of Other Pyrotechnic Articles and definitions .95 Criteria to determine whether an article belongs to Category P1 or P2 . 116 Harmonized Standards . 127 Projects to be initiated within WG 5 (List and
10、Mandates) 148 Future Work Program (Objectives, Tasks, Time targets) . 16Annex A (informative) Definition of Other Pyrotechnic Articles Complementary Information . 19Annex B (informative) Field of Use . 21Annex C (informative) List of “Other Pyrotechnic Articles“ and definitions 22Annex D (informativ
11、e) List of Generic Types and definitions 27Annex E (informative) Interpretation of “Low Hazard“ - Examples . 30Bibliography . 31PD CEN/TR 15953:2009CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 3 Foreword This document (CEN/TR 15953:2009) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 212 “Pyrotechnic articles”, the secre
12、tariat 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 eleven countries have participated in its elabora
13、tion: 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 15953:2009CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 4 Introduction Directive 20
14、07/23/EC of May 23rd2007 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles, has been published on June 14th2007 in the Official Journal of the European Community. (Ref. Mandate M 416). In its Annex 1, Directive 2007/23/EC gives the essential safety requirements (ESR) pyrotechnic articles shall co
15、mply 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) to develop these harmonized standards: Mandate M 416
16、 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 and other pyrotechnic articles, particularly from the
17、 point of view of their safe use”. During its meeting in Delft on October 16thand 17th2007, 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 Groups, one of which is Working Group 5 (CEN/TC 212 / WG
18、 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 drawn up. It has been accepted by CEN/TC 212 and propose
19、d 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 reasons why WG 5 has proposed to develop these standards
20、. Five work sessions have taken place, respectively in NEN Delft Netherlands on February 7th2008, in BAM Berlin Germany on May 22nd2008, in NEN Delft Netherlands on September 9th2008, in AFNOR Paris France on November 13th2008 and in UNI Milano Italy on February 2 2009. The present document is the f
21、inal 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 Pyrotechnic articles” and WG 4 “Pyrotechnic articles for
22、vehicles”. PD CEN/TR 15953:2009CEN/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 must be understood, are all pyrotechnic articles which are
23、 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 articles for vehicles”). It also gives the interpretation WG5
24、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 market, in a consistent way and take the benefit of all the pr
25、actical 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 explosive substances or an explosive mixture of substance
26、s 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 obtained through combustive or deflagrating reactions, this defi
27、nition 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. See Annex A for further information. 2.2 Other terms Collect
28、ions 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 for the corresponding articles to meet the essential safet
29、y 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 articles and significant differences they exhibit in design,
30、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 performance characteristics exist. Then WG 5 experts have conside
31、red 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 requirements or criteria applicable to several collections a
32、s well as to all pyrotechnic articles whatever their design or behaviour in normal use. PD CEN/TR 15953:2009CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 6 The following terms and definitions will be used hereafter and in the harmonized standard(s) to be developed by Working Group5: Type: sample representative of the produ
33、ction 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 with a common characteristic effect. Subtype: set of article
34、s 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 the technical name or a technical data sheet, as appropriat
35、e. 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. NOTE 3 This last definition is fully compliant with Direc
36、tive 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 intend to organize “other pyrotechnic articles” in “individual
37、 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 solve the complexity of their work resulting from the large v
38、ariety 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” correspond to the various individual smoke generators in a manufact
39、urers 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 considered together for the purposes of testing and certificati
40、on 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 product range. WG5 experts think all types of smoke genera
41、tors 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 smoke generators and none at a lower level (e.g. that of a
42、family). Then WG 5 harmonized standards will only deal with these “generic types”. PD CEN/TR 15953:2009CEN/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” (See Annex B). However, WG 5 experts have decided to develop
43、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 articles” states pyrotechnic articles must contain neither commer
44、cial 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 content, single base or double base propellants one compone
45、nt 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 within the scope of preparing Standards for “other pyrotechn
46、ic 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 fireworks ignition to WG 5 friction-ignited flash bangers to W
47、G 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 15953:2009CEN/TR 15953:2009 (E) 8 “Friction-ignited flash bangers” and “whistlers”: WG 5 experts consider these products may enter into its scope of work:
48、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 appropriate? Answer to this question will be given as early a
49、s 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 electrically or percussion actuated ones (See 4.3). 3.2 Interfaces between WG 5 and WG 2 Comp
