CEN/TR 18043:2024
(Main)Construction products: Assessment of release of dangerous substances - Pros and cons of methods for communicating the potential release of dangerous substances into soil, groundwater or surface water and indoor air
Construction products: Assessment of release of dangerous substances - Pros and cons of methods for communicating the potential release of dangerous substances into soil, groundwater or surface water and indoor air
This document describes the pros and cons for the different methods for reporting the potential release of dangerous substances into soil, groundwater or surface water and indoor air, which are:
— level (or declared values); and
— classes;
as defined in the Construction Products Regulation (CPR).
In addition, the pros and cons of additional methods based on discussion in CEN/TCs and WGs are described, which are:
— categories; and
— manufacturer’s declaration.
Bauprodukte: Bewertung der Freisetzung von gefährlichen Stoffen - Vor- und Nachteile von Verfahren zur Kommunikation der möglichen Freisetzung von gefährlichen Stoffen in den Boden, das Grund- oder Oberflächenwasser und die Innenraumluft
Produits de construction: Évaluation de l’émission de substances dangereuses - Avantages et inconvénients des méthodes de communication de l’émission potentielle de substances dangereuses dans le sol, les eaux souterraines ou les eaux de surface et dans l’air intérieur
Gradbeni proizvodi - Ocenjevanje sproščanja nevarnih snovi - Prednosti in slabosti metod za poročanje o morebitnem sproščanju nevarnih snovi v tla, podzemno ali površinsko vodo in notranji zrak
Ta dokument opisuje prednosti in slabosti različnih metod za poročanje o morebitnem sproščanju nevarnih snovi v tla, podzemno ali površinsko vodo in notranji zrak, in sicer:
– stopnja (deklarirane vrednosti); in
– razredi;
kot jih opredeljuje uredba o gradbenih proizvodih (CPR).
Poleg tega so opisane prednosti in slabosti dodatnih metod, ki temeljijo na razpravah odborov CEN/TC in delovnih skupin, in sicer:
– kategorije; in
– deklaracija proizvajalca.
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-april-2024
Gradbeni proizvodi - Ocenjevanje sproščanja nevarnih snovi - Prednosti in
slabosti metod za poročanje o morebitnem sproščanju nevarnih snovi v tla,
podzemno ali površinsko vodo in notranji zrak
Construction products - Assessment of release of dangerous substances - Pros and
cons of methods for communicating the potential release of dangerous substances into
soil, groundwater or surface water and indoor air
Bauprodukte - Bewertung der Freisetzung von gefährlichen Stoffen - Vor- und Nachteile
von Verfahren zur Kommunikation der möglichen Freisetzung von gefährlichen Stoffen in
den Boden, das Grund- oder Oberflächenwasser und die Innenraumluft
Produits de construction - Évaluation de l’émission de substances dangereuses -
Avantages et inconvénients des méthodes de communication de l’émission potentielle
de substances dangereuses dans le sol, les eaux souterraines ou les eaux de surface et
dans l’air intérieur
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/TR 18043:2024
ICS:
13.020.99 Drugi standardi v zvezi z Other standards related to
varstvom okolja environmental protection
91.100.01 Gradbeni materiali na Construction materials in
splošno general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
CEN/TR 18043
TECHNICAL REPORT
RAPPORT TECHNIQUE
February 2024
TECHNISCHER REPORT
ICS 13.020.99; 13.040.20; 19.040; 91.100.01; 13.060.45
English Version
Construction products: Assessment of release of
dangerous substances - Pros and cons of methods for
communicating the potential release of dangerous
substances into soil, groundwater or surface water and
indoor air
Produits de construction: Évaluation de l'émission de Bauprodukte: Bewertung der Freisetzung von
substances dangereuses - Avantages et inconvénients gefährlichen Stoffen - Vor- und Nachteile von
des méthodes de communication de l'émission Verfahren zur Kommunikation der möglichen
potentielle de substances dangereuses dans le sol, les Freisetzung von gefährlichen Stoffen in den Boden, das
eaux souterraines ou les eaux de surface et dans l'air Grund- oder Oberflächenwasser und die Innenraumluft
intérieur
This Technical Report was approved by CEN on 5 February 2024. It has been drawn up by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 351.
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United Kingdom.
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Contents Page
European foreword . 3
Introduction . 4
4.1 Construction Products Regulation. 5
4.2 National provision/existing regulations . 6
4.3 Test data . 6
4.4 Declaration of results . 7
4.5 Interaction with other directives and regulations . 8
5.1 Horizontal test procedures . 9
5.2 Relevant scenarios . 9
5.3 Expression of test results: declared value . 9
6.1 General. 10
6.2 Unbalanced list of parameters – technical versus environmental. 10
6.3 Competition . 16
7.1 General. 16
7.2 “Level” or “declared value” . 16
7.3 “Classes” . 17
Annex A (informative) Special remarks for construction products from secondary sources . 20
Annex B (informative) Proposals for declaration of results via categories or a manufacturer’s
declaration . 21
Annex C (informative) Summary of declaration of results via categories or a manufacturer’s
declaration . 24
Annex D (informative) Example on how results of emission testing of floor covering products can
be declared in CE marking . 26
Bibliography . 29
European foreword
This document (CEN/TR 18043:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 351
“Construction products: Assessment of release of dangerous substances”, the secretariat of which is held
by NEN.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CEN by the European
Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these requests for its
Member States.
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body.
A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.
Introduction
Since 1 July 2013, the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) is fully in force replacing the former
Construction Products Directive (CPD). The goals of the Regulation are the same as those of the Directive:
to foster the free movement and use of construction products in the internal market.
The CPR requires, inter alia, the implementation of Basic Work Requirement No 3 on Hygiene, Health and
Environment into harmonized product standards. Such requirements are not new and known to
construction products also under the former Construction Products Directive (CPD). In single countries
in Europe, manufacturers of construction products are required by law to comply with limits for the
potential release of dangerous substances. These limits are notified and therefore existing.
The implementation of BWR3 into harmonized product standards (hEN) under the CPR is very much
depending on horizontal European test standards, which are under development by CEN/TC 351. They
will replace the test procedures used by now in national regulations regarding BWR3. The horizontal test
procedures for BWR3 today are published as CEN/TSs and will be available as EN in autumn 2023. As a
result, the implementation will need to be considered in the revision of harmonized product standards.
According to Article 6 (d) of the CPR the results can be expressed by “levels”, “classes” or in a
“description”. Due to existing requirements with limit values in the Member States the expression of
results via levels or classes will result in long lists of regulated substances compared to relatively small
lists of technical parameters. The use of descriptions for the communication of results on BWR3 is
unlikely to be accepted due to the nature of existing requirements with limit values on content and
release.
The options for declaring results on BWR3 will impact the competition of construction products as not
for all materials requirements exist or are not required for regular testing in the single Member States,
and unified limits are not likely to be defined by the EC. Only in one Member State all construction
products need to be tested. Results on BWR3 are provided in all Member States in a neutral format, mostly
in form of a test report, which allow an acceptable proof of performance on one hand and
non-stigmatizing information on the other hand.
The examples in this report are based on requirements for fly ash for concrete based on preparatory work
in CEN/TC 104/WG 4 to implement BWR3 requirement for release into soil and ground into the
harmonized standard. For the communication of test results it serves as an example for all construction
products with testing needs due to existing requirements.
This report is to inform about pros and cons of communication systems as defined in the CPR by focusing
political, technical and market related aspects with political aspects covering requirements on EU and
national level, technical aspects dealing with test procedures and markets aspects dealing with fulfilling
legal requirements (parameters, test procedures) and offering materials to customers. When the single
actors (EC on CPR; CEN/TC 351 on horizontal test procedures; Member States on requirements) are
legally correct and consistent in itself, the outcome of all works will result in distortion of markets and
acceptance problems of well-known resources.
1 Scope
This document describes the pros and cons for the different methods for reporting the potential release
of dangerous substances into soil, groundwater or surface water and indoor air, which are:
— level (or declared values); and
— classes;
as defined in the Construction Products Regulation (CPR).
In addition, the pros and cons of additional methods based on discussion in CEN/TCs and WGs are
described, which are:
— categories; and
— manufacturer’s declaration.
2 Normative references
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms and definitions
No terms and definitions are listed in this document.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— IEC Electropedia: available at https://www.electropedia.org/
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https://www.iso.org/obp
4 Political aspects
4.1 Construction Products Regulation
The Construction Products Regulation’s (CPR) Basic Work Requirement 3: Hygiene, health and the
environment, states the construction works must be designed and built in such a way that they will,
throughout their life cycle, not be a threat to the hygiene or health and safety of workers, occupants or
neighbours, nor have an exceedingly high impact, over their entire life cycle, on the environmental quality
or on the climate during their construction, use and demolition, in particular as a result of any of the
following:
a) the giving-off of toxic gas;
b) the emissions of dangerous substances, volatile organic compounds (VOC), greenhouse gases or
dangerous particles into indoor or outdoor air;
c) the emission of dangerous radiation;
d) the release of dangerous substances into ground water, marine waters, surface waters or soil;
e) the release of dangerous substances into drinking water or substances which have an otherwise
negative impact on drinking water;
f) faulty discharge of waste water, emission of flue gases or faulty disposal of solid or liquid waste;
g) dampness in parts of the construction works or on surfaces within the construction works.
The CPR states further that the declaration of performance must:
— express the performance of construction products in relation to the essential characteristics of those
products in accordance with the relevant harmonized technical specifications (Article 6 Clause 1.);
— list the essential characteristics as determined in the harmonized technical specification for the
declared intended use or uses (Article 6, Clause 3 (b));
— contain, where applicable, the performance of the construction product, by levels or classes, or in a
description, if necessary based on a calculation in relation to its essential characteristics determined
in accordance with Article 3(3) (Article 6 Clause 3 (d));
— contain the performance of those essential characteristics of the construction product which are
related to the intended use or uses, taking into consideration the provisions in relation to the
intended use or uses where the manufacturer intends the product to be made available on the market
(Article 6 Clause 3 (e)).
Article 6, Clause 3(d) provides options to declare the performance of a construction by levels or classes
or in a description. The definitions are given in
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