European Standards, Construction and Safety Regulations for Doors and Gates
Conformity
European Standards - Automatic Doors and Gates
The Directives and Technical Standards that regulate the construction and marketing of automatic and/or motorised gates and doors are numerous and continually updated by the technical commissions for European legislation, below there is a detailed overview:
DIRECTIVES are European laws that must be 'transposed' by individual EU states to become national laws.
REGULATIONS are applied to national legislation of EU countries immediately after their entry into force
TECHNICAL STANDARDS define the minimum safety requirements and construction criteria dictated by the Directives.
Main Directives:
- 305/2011/UE - Construction Products Regulation
- 2006/42/CE - Machinery Directive -> See New Machinery Directive
- 2014/35/UE - Low Voltage Directive LVD
- 2014/30/UE - Electromagnetic Compatibility EMC
- 2014/53/UE - Radio Equipment Directive (RED)
- 2011/65/CE - RoHS II Directive - Restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances
Technical Standards - Automatic Doors and Gates:
- EN 12453:2017+A1:2021 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Safety in use of motorised doors, Requirements and test methods
- EN 16005 - Motorised pedestrian doors - Safety in use, Requirements and test methods
- EN 60335-2-95 - Particular requirements for vertical moving garage doors for residential use
- EN 12978 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Safety devices, Requirements and test methods
- EN 12100 - Machine safety - General principles for design - Risk assessment and risk reduction
- EN 13856-2 - Machine safety - Pressure sensitive protective devices, Part 2 General principles for design
- EN 13857 - Machine safety - Safety distances to prevent hazardous areas being reached by upper and lower limbs
- EN 13849-1 - Machine safety - Safety-related parts of control systems, Part 1: General principles for design
Product Standards - Doors and Gates
- EN 13241 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Performance characteristics
- EN 12604:2017+A1:2020 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Mechanical aspects, Requirements and test methods
- EN 12433 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Terminology, Types of doors
- EN 12424 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Resistance to wind load, Classification
- EN 12444 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Resistance to wind load, Tests and calculations
- EN 12425 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Resistance to water penetration, Classification
- EN 12489 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Resistance to water penetration, Test method
- EN 12426 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Air permeability, Classification
- EN 12427 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Air permeability, Test method
- EN 12428 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Thermal transmittance, Requirements for calculation
- EN 16034 - Pedestrian, industrial, commercial and garage doors - Performance characteristics and fire and/or smoke resistance
Standards soon to be revised ...
- EN 13241 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Performance characteristics
- EN 12978 - Industrial, commercial and garage doors and gates - Safety devices, Requirements and test methods
- EN 16005 - Motorised pedestrian doors - Safety in use, Requirements and test methods
