SIST EN 16156:2024

Cigarettes - Assessment of the ignition propensity - Safety requirement

This document specifies the fire safety requirement for cigarettes.

Zigaretten - Beurteilung der Zündneigung - Sicherheitsanforderung

Dieses Dokument legt die Brandsicherheitsanforderung für Zigaretten fest.

Cigarettes - Évaluation du potentiel incendiaire - Prescription de sécurité

Le présent document spécifie la prescription de sécurité incendie applicable aux cigarettes.

Cigarete - Ocena nagnjenosti k vžigu - Varnostne zahteve

Ta dokument določa zahteve glede požarne varnosti za cigarete.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Public Enquiry End Date: 30-Oct-2023
• Publication Date: 24-Sep-2024
• ICS: 13.220.40 - Ignitability and burning behaviour of materials and products
• ICS: 65.160 - Tobacco, tobacco products and related equipment
• Technical Committee: I13 - Imaginarni 13
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 19-Sep-2024
• Due Date: 24-Nov-2024
• Completion Date: 25-Sep-2024
• Directive: 2001/95/EC - Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 December 2001 on general product safety
• Mandate: M/425 - Standardisation mandate to CEN relative to the fire safety requirement for cigarettes
• Ref Project: EN 16156:2024 - Cigarettes - Assessment of the ignition propensity - Safety requirement

Relations

• Revises: SIST EN 16156:2011 - Cigarettes - Assessment of the ignition propensity - Safety requirement
• Effective Date: 03-May-2023

Overview

EN 16156:2024 - published by CEN and prepared by CEN/TC 401 - specifies the fire-safety requirement for cigarettes across the European market. This revision supersedes EN 16156:2010 and aligns with the General Product Safety Regulation 2023/988/EC via Commission standardization mandate M/425. The standard was approved by CEN on 12 June 2024 and is intended for implementation as a national standard by March 2025.

Key normative references include EN ISO 12863:2022, the standard test method for assessing cigarette ignition propensity.

Key Topics

• Scope: Defines the fire-safety requirement applicable to cigarettes placed on the market in CEN member countries.
• Core requirement: No more than 25% of a batch of cigarettes specimens tested shall burn through their full length when assessed on the standard substrate (10 layers of filter paper), tested in accordance with EN ISO 12863:2022.
• Batch definition: A batch corresponds to 40 determinations (specimens), as referenced from the EN ISO 12863 terminology.
• Terms: Includes definitions such as cigarette with reduced ignition propensity (a cigarette that self-extinguishes when not actively puffed before full-length burn) and full-length burn (continues to burn to or past the front plane of tipping paper or pins for non-filter tip cigarettes).
• Regulatory linkage: Informative Annex ZA describes the relationship between this European Standard and the safety requirements of Regulation 2023/988/EC and Commission Decision 2008/264/EC; citation in the Official Journal confers a presumption of conformity within the standard's scope.

Applications

EN 16156:2024 is practical for:

• Manufacturers seeking to demonstrate conformity with EU fire-safety requirements for cigarette products.
• Test laboratories implementing the EN ISO 12863:2022 method to assess ignition propensity on the prescribed 10-layer filter paper substrate.
• Regulatory bodies and market surveillance authorities verifying manufacturers' claims and conformity with product-safety rules.

Benefits include clearer compliance pathways, harmonised test criteria across CEN members, and support for reduced ignition propensity product design and quality control.

Related Standards

• EN ISO 12863:2022 - Standard test method for assessing the ignition propensity of cigarettes (normative reference).
• Commission Decision 2008/264/EC and General Product Safety Regulation 2023/988/EC - legislative context for fire-safety requirements.

For implementation, stakeholders should consult the full EN 16156:2024 text and EN ISO 12863:2022 for test procedures, and monitor the Official Journal of the European Union for updates on cited standards and presumption of conformity status.

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-november-2024
Cigarete - Ocena nagnjenosti k vžigu - Varnostne zahteve
Cigarettes - Assessment of the ignition propensity - Safety requirement
Zigaretten - Beurteilung der Zündneigung - Sicherheitsanforderung
Cigarettes - Évaluation du potentiel incendiaire - Prescription de sécurité
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 16156:2024
ICS:
13.220.40 Sposobnost vžiga in Ignitability and burning
obnašanje materialov in behaviour of materials and
proizvodov pri gorenju products
65.160 Tobak, tobačni izdelki in Tobacco, tobacco products
oprema and related equipment
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN 16156
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
September 2024
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 13.220.40; 65.160 Supersedes EN 16156:2010
English Version
Cigarettes - Assessment of the ignition propensity - Safety
requirement
Cigarettes - Évaluation du potentiel incendiaire - Zigaretten - Beurteilung der Zündneigung -
Prescription de sécurité Sicherheitsanforderung
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 12 June 2024.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this
European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references
concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN
member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by
translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management
Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and
United Kingdom.
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Contents Page
European foreword . 3
Introduction . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 Normative references . 5
3 Terms and definitions . 5
4 Requirements . 5
Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European Standard and the safety
requirements of Regulation 2023/988/EC aimed to be covered . 6
Bibliography . 7
European foreword
This document (EN 16156:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 401 “Reduced
Ignition Propensity Cigarettes”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by March 2025, and conflicting national standards shall be
withdrawn at the latest by March 2025.
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 supersedes EN 16156:2010.
— update of dated reference to EN ISO 12863;
— Annex ZA.
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.
For the relationship with EU Legislation, see informative Annex ZA, which is an integral part of this
document.
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.
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