EN 15947-5:2010

Name: EN 15947-5:2010
Brand: CEN
SKU: EN 15947-5:2010
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Pyrotechnic articles - Fireworks, Categories 1, 2, and 3 - Part 5: Requirements for construction and performance EN 15947-5:2010

Publication date: Feb 17, 2011

General information

Current stage: 99.60 Withdrawal effective Dec 9, 2015

Originator: CEN

Owner: CEN/TC 212 Pyrotechnic articles

Type: European Norm

ICS: 71.100.30 Explosives. Pyrotechnics and fireworks

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Status: Withdrawn

Scope

This European Standard specifies requirements for the construction, performance and primary packaging of fireworks of category 1, 2 and 3 of the following types:
- aerial wheels;
- bangers;
- batteries and combinations;
- Bengal flames;
- Bengal matches;
- Bengal sticks;
- Christmas crackers;
- crackling granules;
- double bangers;
- flash bangers;
- flash pellets;
- fountains;
- ground movers;
- ground spinners;
- hand-held sparklers;
- jumping crackers;
- jumping ground spinners;
- mines;
- mini rockets;
- non-hand-held sparklers;
- novelty matches;
- party poppers;
- rockets;
- Roman candles;
- serpents;
- shot tubes;
- snaps;
- spinners;
- table bombs;
- throwdowns;
- wheels.
This European Standard does not apply for articles containing military explosives, commercial blasting agents or pyrotechnic composition that includes any of the following substances:
- arsenic or arsenic compounds;
- hexachlorobenzene;
- mixtures containing a mass fraction of chlorates greater than 80 %;
- mixtures of chlorates with metals;
- mixtures of chlorates with red phosphorus (except when used in Christmas crackers, party poppers or snaps);
- mixtures of chlorates with potassium hexacyanoferrate(II);
- mixtures of chlorates with sulfur (these mixtures are allowed for friction heads only);
- mixtures of chlorates with sulfides;
- lead or lead compounds;
- mercury compounds;
- white phosphorus;
- picrates or picric acid;
- potassium chlorate with a mass fraction of bromates greater than 0,15 %;
- sulfur with an acidity, expressed in mass fraction of sulphuric acid, greater than 0,002 %;
- zirconium with a particle size of less than 40 µm.

Related legislation

Legislation related to this standard

2007/23/EC

Pyrotechnic articles directive

Harmonized/Supporting

Legislation 2007/23/EC

2013/29/EU

Directive 2013/29/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pyrotechnic articles (recast)

Legislation 2013/29/EU