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The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards – Developments, Use of the Standards
and CE Marking
Martin PageLIER – Transpolis Test Centre, France
Convenor CEN TC 226/WG 1
The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards
• Introduction• Organisation of standards activities• How EN 1317 and CE Marking Work in Europe• EN 1317 outside of Europe• The Evolution of the EN 1317 Standard
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Overview
The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards
• EN 1317: European standard – evaluationperformance road restraint systems
• First published as full EN 1998• Developed in several parts to allow publication of parts when ready
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Introduction
The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards
• Part 1: Terminology & general criteria• Part 2: Road safety barriers• Part 3: Crash cushions• Part 4: Terminals, transitions & removable barriersections (ENV – experimental standard)
• Part 5: Product requirements & evaluation of conformity (harmonised)
• Part 6: pedestrian parapets (Technical Report)• Part 7: Terminals (NEW – work in progress)• Part 8: Motorcyclist protection (Technical Specification)
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Introduction ‐ EN 1317 Parts
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Organisation
TC xxx
WG xx
EuropeanCommission
CEN
TC 226 Road Equipment
TG 1, TG 2, TG x, …
WG 1 Road Restraint Systems
National government
National standards body
National mirror committee
National mirror committee
EN 1317
• CEN groups composed of experts from manyEU member states
• They work on the basis of consensus• The standard represents a nucleus of commontesting requirements of individual memberstates
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Standards groups: The 3 ‘C’s – Consensus, Consensus, Consensus
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The CPR providesfor CE marking ofconstruction products
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How EN 1317 and CE Marking Work in Europe
Construction ProductsRegulation
The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards
• RRS products must be independently assessed by a notified certification body
• EN 1317 lays out the test method for performance testing
• The certification body is responsible for the assessment (on the basis of the methods in the standard)
• The certification body is responsible for verification of constancy of performance, e. g. FPC
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How EN 1317 and CE Marking Work in Europe
The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards
• CE marking for road restraint systems requiresproduct performance testing according to EN 1317
• = minimum performance allowing product to beplaced on market
• All installed RRS must be CE marked (if appropriate CE marking available)
• EU member states maintain responsability for road safety and so may have additional national requirements (as long as these do not contradictEN 1317)
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How EN 1317 and CE Marking Work in Europe
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How EN 1317 and CE Marking Work in Europe
EN 1317 & CE marking are only two pieces of the jigsaw …
… to be complemented by national requirementssuitable for national situations and environments.
The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards
• Although EN 1317 used within context of CE marking in Europe, standard can also beadopted outside of Europe
• CE marking aspects in « Annex ZA » allowinguse of remaining standard stand‐alone
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EN 1317 outside of Europe
The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards
• Restructuring of EN 1317 became necessary due to the publication of CPR in 2013
• Work in progress to revise Part 5• Work in progress to publish additional evaluationmethods for transitions, terminals and removablebarrier sections
• Gaining experience of TS 1317‐8 – motorcyclistprotection before working on full EN
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Evolution of EN 1317 – Work in Progress
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• In order to structure standard most logically;• and to aid management of updates
decision taken to merge different parts intosingle document
• Evaluation procedures for pedestrian parapets and motorcyclist protection expected to remainin separate documents
• Objective: publication end 2016
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Evolution of EN 1317 – Work in Progress
The Future of Road Restraint System Evaluation through European Standards
• Important to understand – EN 1317 restricted to determining product performance – additionalnational requirements may be needed.
• CE marking allows products to be placed on the market. CE marking does not garuntee suitabilityof products for all installations.
• Work under way to publish new standard – user friendly and covering all RRS product types
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Conclusions