2006/600/EC: Commission Decision of 4 September 2006 establishing the classes of external fire performance for certain construction products as regards double skin metal faced sandwich panels for roofs (notified under document number C(2006) 3883)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-09-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: building safety, building slab, technical regulations

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 4 September 2006

establishing the classes of external fire performance for certain construction products as regards
double skin metal faced sandwich panels for roofs

(notified under document number C(2006) 3883)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/600/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
provisions of
relating to construction
the Member States
products (1), and in particular Article 20(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

levels of protection for

in order to take
Directive 89/106/EEC envisages that
the
account of different
construction works at national, regional or local levels,
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 Directive 89/106/EEC (2)’.

(6)

(7)

(8)

By way of a harmonised solution, a system of classes was
adopted in Commission Decision 2001/671/EC of 21
Directive
August
89/106/EEC as regards the classification of the external
fire performance of roofs and roof coverings (3).

implementing

Council

2001

In the case of certain construction products,
necessary
Decision 2001/671/EC.

it
classification established

to use

the

is
in

The external fire performance of some roofs and roof
classification provided for
coverings, within the
in
Decision 2001/671/EC,
is well established and suffi-
ciently well known to fire regulators in Member States,
so 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
event of
interpretative document No 2 lists a
number of interrelated measures which together define
the fire safety strategy to be variously developed in the
Member States.

fire,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

those
Interpretative document No 2 identifies one of
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.

Article 1

The construction products which satisfy all the requirements of
the external fire performance characteristics without need for
further testing are set out in the Annex.

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 2

The specific classes to be applied to different construction
products, 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.

(3)

(4)

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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, 4 September 2006.

For the Commission

Günter VERHEUGEN
Vice-President

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ANNEX

The table set out in this Annex lists the construction products which satisfy all of the requirements for the external fire
performance without need for testing.

CLASSES OF EXTERNAL FIRE PERFORMANCE FOR DOUBLE SKIN METAL FACED SANDWICH PANELS FOR ROOFS

Table

Product (1)

Product detail

Steel, stainless steel or aluminium
faced sandwich panels for roofs

In accordance with
EN 14509 (1)

Core material with minimum
density

PUR 35 kg/m3
or

MW (lamellas) 80 kg/m3
or

MW (full width boards)
110 kg/m3

Class (2)

BROOF (t1)

BROOF (t2)

BROOF (t3)

(1) Panels with a profiled external metal facing incorporating:

— minimum thickness 0,4 mm for facings of steel and stainless steel;
— minimum thickness 0,9 mm for facings of aluminium;
— at each longitudinal joint between two panels an overlap of the external metal facing extending across the crown and a minimum
15 mm down the opposite face of the crown, or a metal cover cap completely covering the joint crown, or a raised standing metal
seam along the joint;

— at each transverse joint between two panels an overlap of the external metal facing of at least 75 mm;
— a protective weather coating comprising a liquid applied PVC 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 300 g/m2;
or any thin paint coating less than the above;

— minimum reaction to fire classification of D-s3, d0 without edge protection in accordance with EN 13501-1.

(2) Class as provided for in the table of the Annex to Decision 2001/671/EC.
Symbols used: PUR = polyurethane; MW = mineral wool; PVC = polyvinyl chloride; PCS = gross calorific potential.