G/TBT/N/EU/619  
 
15 November 2018  
(18-7167) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member: EUROPEAN UNION   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: European Commission  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
European Commission  
EU-TBT Enquiry Point  
Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43  
E-mail: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/en/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applica ble, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): 
Construction products  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft 
Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (E U) No 305/2011 of the 
European Parliament and of the Council by establishing classes of performance in relation 
to air permeability for rooflights of plastics and glass and roof hatches (6 pages + Annex 
2 pages, in English)    
6. Description of content: This draft delegated act under the Construction Products 
Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 (the CPR) contains the introduction of new classes of 
performance in relation to air permeability for rooflights of plastics and glass and roof 
hatches under EN 1873, EN 1 873-1, EN 1873 -2, EN 1873 -3 and EN 14963.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The reference to the European product standard EN 1873:2005 on individual 
rooflights of plastics was first published under Dire ctive 89/106/EEC in the Official Journal 
of the European Union  in June 2006. This harmonised standard did not contain a 
classification for the performance of the products covered by it in relation to the essential 
characteristic air permeability.  
Recently,  the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) submitted to the 
Commission a new version of this standard, EN 1873:2014+A1:2016. This version 
comprises a classification for the performance of the products covered by it in relation to 
the essential chara cteristic air permeability, with three classes of performance introduced. 
This standard is currently under revision in CEN, so as to cover rooflights of plastics and 
glass and roof hatches. It is planned to have three parts in its next version, i.e. EN 187 3-
1, EN 1873 -2 and EN 1873 -3. All three parts are to contain the said classification.  
The reference to the European product standard EN 14963:2006 on continuous rooflights 
of plastics was first published under Directive 89/106/EEC in the Official Journal o f the G/TBT/N/EU/619  
 
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  European Union  in July 2009. This harmonised standard did not contain a classification 
for the performance of the products covered by it in relation to the essential characteristic 
air permeability.  
Recently, CEN informed the Commission that the next  revised version of this standard 
will comprise the same classification for the performance of the products covered by it in 
relation to the essential characteristic air permeability as introduced in EN 1873.  
According to the above standards, the assessmen t of performance in relation to air 
permeability is to be carried out by using different levels of internal pressure, increasing 
stepwise from the level of 4 Pa to the level of 100 Pa. The classification of the results can 
be expressed in a diagram, which depicts the three classes as rectangles distinguished by 
straight lines between the levels indicating the differentiating outcomes at the internal 
pressure levels 4 Pa and 100 Pa.  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 
9 March 2011 laying down harmonised conditions for the marketing of 
construction products and repealing Council Directive 89/106/EEC. Official 
Journal of the EU No L 88 of 4.4.201 1, page 5.  
http://eur -lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=  
OJ:L:2011:088:0005:0043:EN:PDF  
• Commission communication in the framework of the implementation of the 
Council Directive 89/106/EEC of 21 December 1988 on the approximation of 
laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to 
construction products (Text wit h EEA relevance) OJ C 134, 8.6.2006, p. 1 -28 
(ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, SK, SL, FI, SV)  
https://eur -lex.europa.eu/legal -
content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2006.134.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:C:2006
:134:TOC  
• Commission communication in the framework of the implementation of the 
Council Directive 89/106/EEC on the approximation of laws, regulations and 
administrative provisions of the Member States relating to construction products 
(Text with EEA relevance )(Publication of titles and references of harmonised 
standards under the directive) OJ C 152, 4.7.2009, p. 9 -39 (BG, ES, CS, DA, 
DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, I T, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)  
https://eur -lex.europa.eu/legal -
content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.C_.2009.152.01 .0009.01.ENG&toc=OJ:C:2009
:152:TOC  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 1st quarter 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force: 1st quarter 2019  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [  ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
European Commission  
EU-TBT Enquiry Point  
Fax: + (32) 2 299 80 43  
E-mail: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU -TBT Website:  
http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/en/  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/EEC/18_5894_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/EEC/18_5894_01_e.pdf