2006/213/EC: Commission Decision of  6 March 2006  establishing the classes of reaction-to-fire performance for certain construction products as regards wood flooring and solid wood panelling and cladding  (notified under document number C(2006) 655)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-03-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: building materials, building safety, fire protection, floor coverings, product safety, safety standard, wood product

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 March 2006

establishing the classes of reaction-to-fire performance for certain construction products as regards
wood flooring and solid wood panelling and cladding

(notified under document number C(2006) 655)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/213/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

Whereas:

(1)

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

level,

each

of

(6)

(7)

(8)

By way of harmonised solution, a system of classes was
adopted in Commission Decision 2000/147/EC of 8
Council Directive
February
implementing
2000
89/106/EEC as
the
reaction-to-fire performance of construction products (3).

classification

regards

the

of

In the case of wood flooring and solid wood panelling
and cladding it is necessary to use the classification estab-
lished in Decision 2000/147/EC.

The reaction-to-fire performance of many construction
products
classification
and/or materials, within the
provided for in Decision 2000/147/EC,
is well estab-
lished and sufficiently well known to fire regulators in
Member States that they do not require testing for this
particular performance characteristic.

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on Construction,

the

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

of

opinion

(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 variously developed in the
Member States.

fire,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(3)

(4)

Interpretative document No 2 identifies one of
those
measures as the limitation of the generation and spread
of fire and smoke within a given area by limiting the
potential of construction products to contribute to the
full development of a fire.

The level of that limitation may be expressed only in
terms
reaction-to-fire
performance of the products in their end-use application;

different

levels

the

of

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 the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

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

Article 1

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

Article 2

The specific classes to be applied to different construction
products and/or materials, within the reaction-to-fire classifi-
cation adopted in Decision 2000/147/EC, are set out in the
Annex to this Decision.

(3) OJ L 50 23.2.2000, p. 14. Decision as amended by Decision

2003/632/EC (OJ L 220, 3.9.2003, p. 5).

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Products shall be considered in relation to their end-use application, where relevant.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 6 March 2006.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President

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ANNEX

The tables set out in this Annex, list construction products and/or materials which satisfy all of the requirements for the
performance characteristic reaction to fire without need for testing.

CLASSES OF REACTION TO FIRE PERFORMANCE FOR WOOD FLOORING

Table 1

Material (1), (7)

Product detail (4)

Minimum mean
density (5)
(kg/m3)

Minimum
overall
thickness
(mm)

Wood flooring and
parquet

Solid flooring of oak or
beech
surface
with
coating

Beech: 680
Oak: 650

Solid flooring of oak,
and
spruce
or
beech
with surface coating

Beech: 680
Oak: 650
Spruce: 450

Solid wood flooring with
surface coating and not
specified above

390

Wood parquet

Multilayer parquet with a
top layer of oak of at
5 mm thickness
least
and with surface coating

650
(top layer)

8

20

8

20

10

End-use condition

Glued to
substrate (6)

Class (3) for
floorings

Cfl - s1

With or without air
gap underneath

Without air gap
underneath

Dfl - s1

With or without air
gap underneath

Glued to
substrate (6)

Cfl - s1

14 (2)

With or without air
gap underneath

Multilayer parquet with
surface coating and not
specified above

500

8

10

Glued to substrate

Dfl - s1

Without air gap
underneath

14 (2)

With or without air
gap underneath

Veneered floor
covering

Veneered floor covering
with surface coating

800

6 (2)

Without air gap
underneath

Dfl - s1

(1) Mounted in accordance with EN ISO 9239-1, on a substrate of at least Class D - s2, d0 and with minimum density of 400 kg/m3 or

with an air gap underneath.

(2) An interlayer of at least Class E and with maximum thickness 3 mm may be included in applications without an air gap, for parquet

products with 14 mm thickness or more and for veneered floor coverings.
(3) Class as provided for in Commission Decision 2000/147/EC Annex Table 2.
(4) Type and quantity of surface coatings included are acrylic, polyurethane or soap, 50 - 100 g/m2, and oil, 20 - 60 g/m2.
(5) Conditioned according to EN 13238 (50 % RH 23 oC).
(6) Substrate at least Class A2 - s1, d0.
(7) Applies also to steps of stairs.

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CLASSES OF REACTION TO FIRE PERFORMANCE FOR SOLID WOOD PANELLING AND CLADDING

Table 2

Material (11)

Product detail (5)

Panelling and
cladding (1)

Panelling and
cladding (2)

Wood pieces with or
and
without
groove
or
without profiled surface

tongue
and with

Wood pieces with or
and
without
groove
or
without profiled surface

tongue
and with

Minimum mean
density (6)
(kg/m3)

390

Minimum
thicknesses,
total/
minimum (7)
(mm)

End-use condition (4)

Class (3)

9/6

12/8

Without air gap or
with closed air gap
behind

D - s2, d2

D - s2, d0

390

9/6

With open air gap
≤ 20 mm behind

D - s2, d0

18/12

Without air gap or
with open air gap
behind

Wood ribbon
elements (8)

Wood pieces mounted on
a support frame (9)

390

18

Surrounded by open
air on all sides (10)

D - s2, d0

(1) Mounted mechanically on a wood batten support frame, with the gap closed or filled with a substrate of at least class A2 - s1, d0 with
minimum density of 10 kg/m3 or filled with a substrate of cellulose insulation material of at least class E and with or without a
vapour barrier behind. The wood product shall be designed to be mounted without open joints.

(2) Mounted mechanically on a wood batten support frame, with or without an open air gap behind. The wood product shall be designed

to be mounted without open joints.

(3) Class as provided for in Table 1 of the Annex to Commission Decision 2000/147/EC.
(4) An open air gap may include possibility for ventilation behind the product, while a closed air gap will exclude such ventilation. The
substrate behind the air gap must be of at least class A2 - s1, d0 with a minimum density of 10 kg/m3. Behind a closed air gap of
maximum 20 mm and with vertical wood pieces, the substrate may be of at least class D - s2, d0.

(5) Joints include all types of joints, e.g. butt joints and tongue and groove joints.
(6) Conditioned according to EN 13238.
(7) As illustrated in Figure a below. Profiled area of the exposed side of the panel not more than 20 % of the plane area, or 25 % if
measured at both exposed and unexposed side of the panel. For butt joints, the larger thickness applies at the joint interface.
(8) Rectangular wood pieces, with or without rounded corners, mounted horizontally or vertically on a support frame and surrounded by

air on all sides, mainly used close to other building elements, both in interior and exterior applications.

(9) Maximum exposed area (all sides of rectangular wood pieces and wood support frame) not more than 110 % of the total plane area,

see Figure b.

(10) Other building elements closer than 100 mm from the wood ribbon element (excluding its support frame) must be of at least class
A2 - s1, d0, at distances 100 - 300 mm of at least class B - s1, d0 and at distances more than 300 mm of at least class D - s2, d0.

(11) Applies also to stairs.

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Figure a

Profiles for solid wood panelling and cladding

Figure b
Maximum exposed area of wood ribbon element 2n (t + w) + a ≤ 1,10