Standards and regulations: Generalities 2008

1. Standards and regulations: Generalities 2008 Technical Advisory Service

2. Generalities • Introduction • Standards • CE marking • Certificates • National regulations and legislations

3. Introduction CSTC

4. Generalities • Introduction • Standards • CE marking • Certificates • National regulations and legislations

5. Standards • Before, each country had his own standardization institute and published its standards • Some international standards (ISO) are also published

6. Standards

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8. Standards • In order to uniformize the european market, and also arrive to the CE Marking, the CEN is now publishing european standards «EN» • These standards replace and cancel the eventual national standards, handling about the same topic

9. Standards

10. Standards The CEN publishes different sort of standards : • description of products • test methods • calculations methods • harmonized standards for the CE Marking BUT these standards do not give indications regarding the choice and the use of different products, this stays a national competence

11. Standards • For the glass, TC 129 «Glass in building» is the only qualified • About 90 standards are publised or being edited

12. Standards Example: Thermal Insulation • The standard EN 1279 describes insulating glazings (composition, tolerances, test …). • The standard EN 12898 describes the method of measurement of the emissivity of a coating. • The standard EN 673 describes the method of calculation of the U Value of a glazing. • The standard EN ISO 10077 describes the method of calculation of the U Value of a window • The standards or national regulations determine the U-values to be respected in building

13. Generalities • Introduction • Standards • CE marking • Certificates • National regulations and legislations

14. CE Marking • Represents the fact that the product correspond to the DPC requirements, as mentioned in the different harmonized standards or ETAG’s • Indicates that the product has been correctly evaluated to be compatible with the CDP procedure  See training «CE Marking»

15. Generalities • Introduction • Standards • CE marking • Certificates • National regulations and legislations

16. The certificates In order to certify the quality and/or the level of performance of its products, AGC Flat Glass Europe has different sort of certificates: • Declaration of conformity • Test reports • Certificate of product conformity • Certification

17. The certificates • A declaration of conformity (to a standard, a law document, a law …) is a document written by the manufacturer who declares under his responsability that it is conform to … • AGC has used and still uses these documents if nothing else is needed • Example: GVB declares that his Top N is conform to EN 1096

18. The certificates • A test report is a document which gives the results of a test from a document (standard). The test can in that case, only be a part of a standard, a law … The laboratory which does this testy is often independent of the producer • Example: INV tells that STRATOPHONE 33.2 is 1B1 according to EN 12600 • Example: INV tells that LT of TOP N, measured according to EN 410 is about 86 %

19. The certificates • A certificate of product conformity(to a standard, a law, a directive …) is a document where a laboratory keep a record if the tested product is accurate to the complete standard (to a law, a directive …). Generally, several test, calculations have been made • Example: INV tells that the TOP N of GVB is conformed to the EN 1096This means for example, for pyrolithic coatings, spectrometric measures and resistance tests, to condensation, acid attacks, fog and abrasion

20. The certificates • A certification given by a standard organization is a document where the organism keep a record of a product (or the range of all the products of a plant or a producer) is/are accurate to a regulation certification. This one is composed by test in laboratory, controls in plants and regular evaluation tests • Example: BCCA gives a certification for the STRATOPHONE range of ATHUS and TEPLICE. The tests have been made by INV and SSV, controls by SECO according to the internal rules of BCCA. The certificate is 3 years valid and the certified values are indicated

21. The certificates The certifications are usually composed by a name and a « logo », which allow an easy identification, for example: • Belgium: ATG • France: CEKAL, Avis Technique • Netherlands: KOMO • …

22. The certificates CSTC The certificates (but not the conformity declaration) are given by acknowledged laboratories, for example: • Germany: IFT, Melrichstadt, Ulm • Belgium: CSTC, InV, ERM • France: CSTB, CEBTP, CNPP • Italy: SSV • Netherlands: TNO • Czech Republic: Ikatès • …

23. The certificates Most of the certificates are « scanned » and available on www.YourGlass.com (see, «Certificates» and «Quality»)

24. The certificates

25. Generalities • Introduction • Standards • CE marking • Certificates • National regulations and legislations

26. National regulations and legislations National application documents of european standards are published in most of countries; they can specifiy: • the choice of fire resistant glazing • the acoustic insulation criterias • the thermal insulation criterias • the choice of safety glazings (protection against injuries, break-in …) • the details for setting of glazings • …

27. National regulations and legislations The application documents can be : • Legislative (law, decree): they are lawful and then obligatory • Standards • Others (non lawful)

28. National regulations and legislations Examples of applications documents : • Belgium : NBN S 23-002 (STS 38) • France: DTU 39 (NF P 78-201-1)