2005/403/EC: Commission Decision of 25 May 2005 establishing the classes of external fire performance of roofs and roof coverings for certain construction products as provided for by Council Directive 89/106/EEC (notified under document number C(2005) 1501)  (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2005-05-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: building materials, building regulations, building safety, sheet, technical regulations

28.5.2005

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 25 May 2005

establishing the classes of external fire performance of roofs and roof coverings for certain
construction products as provided for by Council Directive 89/106/EEC

(notified under document number C(2005) 1501)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2005/403/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

21 August 2001 implementing Council Directive
89/106/EEC as regards the classification of external fire
performance of roofs and roof coverings (3).

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

to

regard

Council Directive

Having
of
21 December 1988 on the approximation of laws, regulations
and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to
construction products (1), and in particular Article 20(2) thereof,

89/106/EEC

Whereas:

(1)

the different

in order to take
Directive 89/106/EEC envisages that
levels of protection for
account of
construction works at national, regional or local
level,
it may be necessary to establish in interpretative
documents classes corresponding to the performance of
products in respect of each essential requirement. Those
documents have been published as the ‘Communication
of
the Commission with regard to the interpretative
documents of Council Directive 89/106/EEC’ (2).

(2) With respect to the essential requirement of safety in the
interpretative document No 2 lists a
event of
number of interrelated measures which together define
the fire safety strategy to be developed in different ways
in the Member States.

fire,

(3)

Interpretative document No 2 identifies the requirements
for construction products
roofs exposed to an
external fire.

for

(5)

(6)

(7)

In the case of certain plastisol coated steel roof sheets, it
is necessary to use the classification established in
Decision 2001/671/EC.

fire performance of many construction
The external
classification
products
and/or materials, within the
is well estab-
provided for in Decision 2001/671/EC,
lished and sufficiently well known to fire regulators in
Member States with the consequence that they do not
require testing for this particular performance charac-
teristic.

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on Construction,

the

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

of

opinion

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The construction products and/or materials which satisfy all the
fire
requirements of
performance’ without need for further testing are set out in
the Annex.

the performance characteristic ‘external

(4)

By way of a harmonised solution, a system of classes was
adopted in Commission Decision 2001/671/EC of

(1) OJ L 40, 11.2.1989, p. 12. Directive as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(2) OJ C 62, 28.2.1994, p. 1.

The specific classes to be applied to different construction
products and/or materials, within the external fire performance
classification adopted in Decision 2001/671/EC, are set out in
the Annex to this Decision.

(3) OJ L 235, 4.9.2001, p. 20.

Article 2

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 3

Done at Brussels, 25 May 2005.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President

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ANNEX

The table set out in this Annex lists construction products and/or materials which satisfy all the requirements for the
performance characteristic external fire performance without need for testing.

Classes of external fire performance for plastisol coated steel roof sheets

Table

Product

Class (1)

Plastisol coated steel roof sheets
as specified below and when incorporated into a single
layer or built-up roofing system as detailed below

BROOF (t1)
BROOF (t2)
BROOF (t3)

Roofing sheets
in accordance with EN 14782 and EN 14783, comprising profiled steel sheets, flat steel sheets or panels of coil coated
galvanised or zinc-aluminium alloy coated steel of metal thickness ≥ 0,40 mm with an organic external (weather side)
coating and, optionally, a reverse (internal) side organic coating. The external coating is of a liquid-applied Plastisol paint
of maximum nominal dry film thickness 0,200 mm, a PCS of not greater than 8,0 MJ/m2 and a maximum dry mass of
330 g/m2. The reverse side organic coating (if any) has a PCS of not greater than 4,0 MJ/m2 and a maximum dry mass of
200 g/m2.

Single-layer roofing system comprising a single skin, non-insulated roofing on a supporting structure (continuous or
discrete supporting rails) of reaction to fire classification A2-s1, d0 or better.

Built-up roofing system where the Plastisol coated steel roof sheets forms the external layer in a built-up assembly, where
the supporting structure is of reaction to fire classification A2-s1, d0 or better and where immediately below the Plastisol
coated steel sheet there is an insulating layer of reaction to fire classification A2-s1, d0 or better. This insulation shall be
fibre quilt of minimum density
an un-faced mineral wool complying with EN 13162 and shall be glass
10 kg/m3 (maximum nominal resin content 5 % by weight) and thickness ≥ 80 mm, or stone-wool of minimum
density 25 kg/m3 (maximum nominal resin content 3,5 % by weight) and thickness ≥ 80 mm.

Joints where the top sheeting includes joints these shall be as follows:

— trapezoidal profiled sheet — side laps to incorporate an overlap of at least one rib and end laps to be a minimum of

100 mm;

— sinusoidal corrugated sheet — side laps to incorporate an overlap of at least 1,5 corrugations and end laps to be a

minimum of 100 mm;

— flat sheets/panels — side laps and end laps to be a minimum of 100 mm;

— standing seam systems — side lap joints shall incorporate a vertical standing overlapped or capped seam sufficient to
ensure continuous intimate contact between the sheets and to provide a watertight joint and where applicable end lap
joints shall have a minimum 100 mm overlap.

Sealants shall be of a butyl-mastic or similar with a nominal density of 1 500 to 1 700 kg/m3 applied as a continuous
bead within the overlapped region of the joint at a rate of approximately 45 g/m length.

Fixings where the roof sheets are fixed to the supporting construction using metal mechanical fixings adequate to provide
structural stability to the roof construction with additional metal mechanical fixings used to ensure continuous intimate
contact between the sheets and to provide watertight joints.

(1) External fire performance class as provided for in the table of the Annex to Decision 2001/671/EC.