About European construction products regulation (CPR)

The social importance of fire safety is increasing. People spend a great deal of time in buildings, unaware of the dangers that are present with respect to fire. And that, even though approximately 90 percent of all fires that break out every year occur in buildings. Ensuring quality in the use of building materials is, therefore, essential.

In 2011, the EU decided to convert the Directive on fire behaviour of construction products into a regulation, the CPR (Construction Products Regulation). The aim of this CPR is to provide reliable information on fire safety and performance of products in various situations.
For cables, this means that these are tested with respect to their fire properties. The fire behaviour must be classified according to Euro classes and no longer according to the current fire standards for cables.

The European standard EN 50575 states requirements for the fire behaviour of cables used in electro-technical installations in buildings and in both architectural and civil engineering works, which have entered into force on 1 July 2016. A transition period of 1 year has been
set thereafter. The implementation, and the establishment of performance levels by regulatory
authorities, must take place separately in each Member State. In this document, we inform you about the most important topics related to implementation in the Netherlands.

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