European Commission Amends Harmonised Standards for Domestic Cooking Appliances Burning Gas

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The European Commission has adopted a decision to amend Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2944, which lists harmonised standards for domestic cooking appliances burning gas, safety and control devices for gas burners and gas burning appliances, thermoelectric flame supervision devices, gas-fired central heating boilers, and automatic vent valves for gas burners and gas burning appliances. The decision aims to ensure that the listed harmonised standards continue to reflect the generally acknowledged state of the art in order to meet the essential health and safety requirements set out in Regulation (EU) 2016/426.

Key Takeaways:

  • The European Commission has amended Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2944 to include revised harmonised standards for domestic cooking appliances burning gas, safety and control devices for gas burners and gas burning appliances, thermoelectric flame supervision devices, gas-fired central heating boilers, and automatic vent valves for gas burners and gas burning appliances.
  • The Commission assessed whether the revised harmonised standards comply with the request set out in Implementing Decision C(2023) 4789, which called for the revision of existing harmonised standards to ensure they continue to reflect the generally acknowledged state of the art in order to meet the essential health and safety requirements set out in Regulation (EU) 2016/426.
  • The revised harmonised standards include EN 30-2-1:2024 on domestic cooking appliances burning gas for rational use of energy, EN 88-2:2022+A1:2024 and EN 88-3:2022+A1:2024 for safety and control devices for gas burners and gas burning appliances, EN 125:2022+A1:2024 on thermoelectric flame supervision devices for gas burning appliances, EN 15502-2-2:2024 on gas-fired central heating boilers for type B1 appliances, and EN 16304:2022+A1:2024 on automatic vent valves for gas burners and gas burning appliances.
  • The Commission has also included a correction to the harmonised standard EN 15502-2-1:2022+A1:2023 for gas-fired central heating boilers for type C appliances and type B2, B3, and B5 appliances of a nominal heat input not exceeding 1 000 kW.
  • Compliance with a harmonised standard confers a presumption of conformity with the corresponding essential requirements set out in Union harmonisation legislation from the date of publication of the reference of such standard in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Statistics:

  • Regulation (EU) 2016/426 covers essential health and safety requirements for appliances burning gaseous fuels.
  • The European Commission has assessed 6 revised harmonised standards for domestic cooking appliances burning gas, safety and control devices for gas burners and gas burning appliances, thermoelectric flame supervision devices, gas-fired central heating boilers, and automatic vent valves for gas burners and gas burning appliances.
  • The revised harmonised standards include 6 standards with a total of 15 Annexes.
  • The Commission has included a correction to the harmonised standard EN 15502-2-1:2022+A1:2023 for gas-fired central heating boilers.

Sources:

  • Regulation (EU) 2016/426 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on appliances burning gaseous fuels and repealing Directive 2009/142/EC (OJ L 81, 31.3.2016, p. 99)
  • Commission Implementing Decision C(2023)4789 of 20 July 2023 on a standardisation request to the European Committee for Standardization and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization as regards gas appliances and fittings in support of Regulation (EU) 2016/426 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
  • Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2944 of 28 November 2024 on the harmonised standards for appliances burning gaseous fuels drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2016/426 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/224 (OJ L, 2024/2944, 2.12.2024)
  • EN 30-2-1:2024 on domestic cooking appliances burning gas for rational use of energy
  • EN 88-2:2022+A1:2024 and EN 88-3:2022+A1:2024 for safety and control devices for gas burners and gas burning appliances
  • EN 125:2022+A1:2024 on thermoelectric flame supervision devices for gas burning appliances
  • EN 15502-2-2:2024 on gas-fired central heating boilers for type B1 appliances
  • EN 16304:2022+A1:2024 on automatic vent valves for gas burners and gas burning appliances