96/580/EC: Commission Decision of 24 June 1996 on the procedure for attesting the conformity of construction products pursuant to Article 20 (2) of Council Directive 89/106/EEC as regards curtain walling (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Directive 89/106/EEC
• Articles: 5

Article 1

The products and families of products set out in Annex I shall have their conformity attested by a procedure whereby the manufacturer has under its sole responsibility a factory production control system ensuring that the product is in conformity with the relevant technical specifications.

Article 2

The products set out in Annex II shall have their conformity attested by a procedure whereby, in addition to a factory production control system operated by the manufacturer, an approved certification body is involved in assessment and surveillance of the production control or of the product itself.

Article 3

The procedure for attesting conformity as set out in Annex III shall be indicated in mandates for harmonized standards.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 June 1996.

For the Commission

Martin BANGEMANN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 40, 11. 2. 1989, p. 12.

(2) OJ No L 220, 30. 8. 1993, p. 1.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX I

CURTAIN WALLING

Curtain wall kits to be used either as external walls not subject to reaction to fire requirements or as external walls subject to reaction to fire requirements but not being in any of the circumstances mentioned for these products in Annex II.

ANNEX II

CURTAIN WALLING

Curtain wall kits to be used as external walls subject to reaction to fire requirements, classified under one of the Euroclasses A, B or C where the reaction to fire performance of the components is either susceptible to change during the production process (in general, those made with combustible raw materials) or has been altered by means of incorporation of certain agents, like fire retardants, but only when these components are likely to be exposed to fire in their end-use situation.

ANNEX III

PRODUCT FAMILY:

CURTAIN WALLING (1/1)

Systems of attestation of conformity

For the product(s) and intended use(s) listed below, European Committee for Standardization/European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CEN/Cenelec) are requested to specify the following system(s) of attestation of conformity in the relevant harmonized standard(s):

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The specification for the system should be such that it can be implemented even where performance does not need to be determined for a certain characteristic, because at least one Member State has no legal requirement at all for such characteristic (see Article 2 (1) of Directive 89/106/EEC and, where applicable, clause 1.2.3 of the Interpretative Documents). In those cases the verification of such a characteristic must not be imposed on the manufacturer if he does not wish to declare the performance of the product in that respect.