2000/605/EC: Commission Decision of 26 September 2000 amending Decision 96/603/EC establishing the list of products belonging to Classes A 'No contribution to fire' provided for in Decision 94/611/EC implementing Article 20 of Council Directive 89/106/EEC on construction products (notified under document number C(2000) 2640) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2000-09-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: building materials, building safety, fire protection, occupational safety, product safety, safety standard

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 26 September 2000

amending Decision 96/603/EC establishing the list of products belonging to Classes A ‘No contribu-
tion to fire’ provided for in Decision 94/611/EC implementing Article 20 of Council Directive
89/106/EEC on construction products

(notified under document number C(2000) 2640)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2000/605/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 89/106/EEC of 21
December 1988 on the approximation of laws, regulations and
the Member States relating to
administrative provisions of
construction products (1),
amended by Directive 93/
68/EEC (2), and in particular Article 20 thereof,

as

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Decision 96/603/EC (3) established a list of
products belonging to Classes A ‘No contribution to fire’
provided for in Tables 1 and 2 of the Annex to Commis-
sion Decision 94/611/EC (4), which described the Euro-
pean classification system for expressing the reaction-to-
fire performance of construction products.

Decision 94/611/EC has been replaced by Commission
Decision 2000/147/EC (5), which does not
to
Classes A, thus necessitating an amendment to Decision
96/603/EC.

refer

The measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee
on Construction,

(1) OJ L 40, 11.2.1989, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 220, 30.8.1993, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 267, 19.10.1996, p. 23.
(4) OJ L 241, 16.9.1994, p. 25.
(5) OJ L 50, 23.2.2000, p. 14.

Article 1

Decision 96/603/EC is hereby amended as follows:

1.

in Article 1, the first paragraph is replaced by the following:

‘The materials, and products made from them, that are listed
in the Annex to this Decision, shall, on account of their low
level of combustibility and subject to the conditions also set
out in the Annex, be classified in Classes A1 and Class A1FL
as provided for in Tables 1 and 2 of the Annex to Decision
2000/147/EC.’;

2. the Annex is amended as follows:

(a) the title is replaced by the following:

‘Materials to be considered as reaction to fire Classes A1
and A1FL as provided for in Decision 2000/147/EC
without the need for testing.’;

(b) the general notes are amended as follows:

(i) in the first and third paragraphs,

‘Classes A’

is

replaced by ‘Class A1 and Class A1FL’.

(ii) in the first and fourth paragraphs ‘(whichever is the
the more
replaced by ‘(whichever

is

lower)’
is
onerous)’.

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 26 September 2000.

For the Commission

Erkki LIIKANEN

Member of the Commission