Standards and regulations: Generalities

2008

Technical Advisory Service

Generalities

Introduction Standards CE marking Certificates National regulations and legislations

Introduction

CSTC

Generalities

Introduction Standards CE marking Certificates National regulations and legislations

Standards

Before, each country had his own standardization institute and published its standards

Some international standards (ISO) are also published

Standards

Country Institute Standard Logo

Germany DINwww.din.de DIN

Belgium IBN – BINwww.ibn.be NBN

Spain AENORwww.aenor.es

UNE

France AFNORwww.afnor.fr NF

UK BSIwww.bsi.org.uk

BS

Italy UNIwww.uni.it UNI

Netherlands NNIwww.nni.nl NEN

Standards

Country Institute Standard Logo

Poland PKNwww.pkl.pl PN

Russia GOSTwww.gost.ru GOST

Czech Republic CSNIwww.csni.cz CSN

USA ASTMwww.astm.com

ANSIwww.ansi.org

ASTM

ANSI

International Standardization Organization

ISOwww.iso.org ISO

In order to uniformize the european market, and also arrive to the CE Marking, the CEN is now publishing european standards «EN»

Standards

These standards replace and cancel the eventual national standards, handling about the same topic

Standards

Institute Standard Logo

European Comittee of Standardization

CENwww.cenorm.be

EN

European Organization for the Technical Agreement

EOTAwww.eota.be

ETAG

Standards

The CEN publishes different sort of standards : description of products test methods calculations methods harmonized standards for the CE Marking

BUT these standards do not give indications regarding the choice and the use of different products, this stays a national competence

Standards

For the glass, TC 129 «Glass in building» is the only qualified

About 90 standards are publised or being edited

Standards

Example: Thermal Insulation The standard EN 1279 describes insulating glazings

(composition, tolerances, test …). The standard EN 12898 describes the method of

measurement of the emissivity of a coating. The standard EN 673 describes the method of

calculation of the U Value of a glazing. The standard EN ISO 10077 describes the method of

calculation of the U Value of a window

The standards or national regulations determine the U-values to be respected in building

Generalities

Introduction Standards CE marking Certificates National regulations and legislations

CE Marking

Represents the fact that the product correspond to the DPC requirements, as mentioned in the different harmonized standards or ETAG’s

Indicates that the product has been correctly evaluated to be compatible with the CDP procedure

See training «CE Marking»

Generalities

Introduction Standards CE marking Certificates National regulations and legislations

The certificates

In order to certify the quality and/or the level of performance of its products, AGC Flat Glass Europe has different sort of certificates: Declaration of conformity Test reports Certificate of product conformity Certification

The certificates

A declaration of conformity (to a standard, a law document, a law …) is a document written by the manufacturer who declares under his responsability that it is conform to …

AGC has used and still uses these documents if nothing else is needed

Example: GVB declares that his Top N is conform to EN 1096

The certificates

A test report is a document which gives the results of a test from a document (standard). The test can in that case, only be a part of a standard, a law … The laboratory which does this testy is often independent of the producer

Example: INV tells that STRATOPHONE 33.2 is 1B1 according to EN 12600

Example: INV tells that LT of TOP N, measured according to EN 410 is about 86 %

The certificates

A certificate of product conformity (to a standard, a law, a directive …) is a document where a laboratory keep a record if the tested product is accurate to the complete standard (to a law, a directive …). Generally, several test, calculations have been made

Example: INV tells that the TOP N of GVB is conformed to the EN 1096This means for example, for pyrolithic coatings, spectrometric measures and resistance tests, to condensation, acid attacks, fog and abrasion

The certificates

A certification given by a standard organization is a document where the organism keep a record of a product (or the range of all the products of a plant or a producer) is/are accurate to a regulation certification. This one is composed by test in laboratory, controls in plants and regular evaluation tests

Example: BCCA gives a certification for the STRATOPHONE range of ATHUS and TEPLICE. The tests have been made by INV and SSV, controls by SECO according to the internal rules of BCCA. The certificate is 3 years valid and the certified values are indicated

The certificates

The certifications are usually composed by a name and a « logo », which allow an easy identification, for example: Belgium: ATG France: CEKAL, Avis Technique Netherlands: KOMO…

The certificates

The certificates (but not the conformity declaration) are given by acknowledged laboratories, for example: Germany: IFT, Melrichstadt, Ulm Belgium: CSTC, InV, ERM France: CSTB, CEBTP, CNPP Italy: SSV Netherlands: TNO Czech Republic: Ikatès…

CSTC

The certificates

Most of the certificates are « scanned » and available on www.YourGlass.com (see, «Certificates» and «Quality»)

The certificates

Generalities

Introduction Standards CE marking Certificates National regulations and legislations

National regulations and legislations

National application documents of european standards are published in most of countries; they can specifiy: the choice of fire resistant glazing the acoustic insulation criterias the thermal insulation criterias the choice of safety glazings (protection against injuries, break-in …) the details for setting of glazings …

National regulations and legislations

The application documents can be : Legislative (law, decree): they are lawful and

then obligatory Standards Others (non lawful)

National regulations and legislations

Examples of applications documents :

Belgium : NBN S 23-002 (STS 38)

France: DTU 39 (NF P 78-201-1)