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The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards – Developments, Use of the Standards

and CE Marking

Martin PageLIER – Transpolis Test Centre, France

Convenor CEN TC 226/WG 1

The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards

• Introduction• Organisation of standards activities• How EN 1317 and CE Marking Work in Europe• EN 1317 outside of Europe• The Evolution of the EN 1317 Standard

5th November 2014 AFB 20 ‐ Brussels Martin Page, LIER‐Transpolis 2

Overview


• EN 1317: European standard – evaluationperformance road restraint systems

• First published as full EN 1998• Developed in several parts to allow publication of parts when ready


Introduction


• Part 1: Terminology & general criteria• Part 2: Road safety barriers• Part 3: Crash cushions• Part 4: Terminals, transitions & removable barriersections (ENV – experimental standard)

• Part 5: Product requirements & evaluation of conformity (harmonised)

• Part 6: pedestrian parapets (Technical Report)• Part 7: Terminals (NEW – work in progress)• Part 8: Motorcyclist protection (Technical Specification)


Introduction ‐ EN 1317 Parts



Organisation

TC xxx

WG xx

EuropeanCommission

CEN

TC 226 Road Equipment

TG 1, TG 2, TG x, …

WG 1 Road Restraint Systems

National government

National standards body

National mirror committee

National mirror committee

EN 1317

• CEN groups composed of experts from manyEU member states

• They work on the basis of consensus• The standard represents a nucleus of commontesting requirements of individual memberstates



Standards groups: The 3 ‘C’s – Consensus, Consensus, Consensus


The CPR providesfor CE marking ofconstruction products


How EN 1317 and CE Marking Work in Europe

Construction ProductsRegulation


• RRS products must be independently assessed by a notified certification body

• EN 1317 lays out the test method for performance testing

• The certification body is responsible for the assessment (on the basis of the methods in the standard)

• The certification body is responsible for verification of constancy of performance, e. g. FPC




• CE marking for road restraint systems requiresproduct performance testing according to EN 1317

• = minimum performance allowing product to beplaced on market

• All installed RRS must be CE marked (if appropriate CE marking available)

• EU member states maintain responsability for road safety and so may have additional national requirements (as long as these do not contradictEN 1317)






EN 1317 & CE marking are only two pieces of the jigsaw …

… to be complemented by national requirementssuitable for national situations and environments.


• Although EN 1317 used within context of CE marking in Europe, standard can also beadopted outside of Europe

• CE marking aspects in « Annex ZA » allowinguse of remaining standard stand‐alone


EN 1317 outside of Europe


• Restructuring of EN 1317 became necessary due to the publication of CPR in 2013

• Work in progress to revise Part 5• Work in progress to publish additional evaluationmethods for transitions, terminals and removablebarrier sections

• Gaining experience of TS 1317‐8 – motorcyclistprotection before working on full EN


Evolution of EN 1317 – Work in Progress


• In order to structure standard most logically;• and to aid management of updates

decision taken to merge different parts intosingle document

• Evaluation procedures for pedestrian parapets and motorcyclist protection expected to remainin separate documents

• Objective: publication end 2016


Evolution of EN 1317 – Work in Progress


• Important to understand – EN 1317 restricted to determining product performance – additionalnational requirements may be needed.

• CE marking allows products to be placed on the market. CE marking does not garuntee suitabilityof products for all installations.

• Work under way to publish new standard – user friendly and covering all RRS product types


Conclusions

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