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SELECTION AND USE OF MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS
(B2.1)
1 Subject to paragraph 2 and Notes 1 and 2 below, the requirements of B2.1 will be met where materials, fittings, components and other manufactured products or parts thereof comply with any of the following standards -
a. the standard (whether British Standard or otherwise) specified in the Technical Standards, either in a relevant standard or a deemed to satisfy provision;
b. a relevant standard or code of practice of a national standards institution or equivalent body of any State within the European Economic Area;
c. a relevant international standard recognised in any State within the European Economic Area;
d. a relevant specification acknowledged for use as a standard by a public authority of any State within the European Economic Area;
e. traditional procedures of manufacture of a State within the European Economic Area where these are the subject of a written technical description sufficiently detailed to permit assessment of the materials, fittings, components or other manufactured products or parts thereof for the use specified; or
f. for materials, fittings, components or other manufactured products or parts thereof of an innovative nature or subject to an innovative process of manufacture and which fulfil the purpose provided for by the specified standard -
i. a European Technical Approval issued in accordance with the Construction Products Directive (89/106/EEC); or
ii. a specification sufficiently detailed to permit assessment.
2 The standard, code of practice, specification, technical description or European Technical Approval referred to in paragraph 1b to f must provide in use levels of safety, suitability and fitness for purposes equivalent to those required by the specified standard referred to in paragraph 1a insofar as such levels are not inconsistent with the essential requirements set out in terms of objectives in Annex I to the Construction Products Directive (89/106/EEC).
3 Where materials, fittings, components and other manufactured products or parts thereof are used on the basis of a standard, code of practice, specification, technical description or European Technical Approval referred to in paragraph 1, testing and sampling may be carried out as specified in or applicable to such standard, code of practice, specification, technical description or European Technical Approval.
4 Where testing is carried out in a State within the European Economic Area such tests shall be carried out by an appropriate organisation offering suitable and satisfactory evidence of technical and professional competence and independence. The requirement shall be satisfied if the organisation is accredited in a State within the European Economic Area in accordance with BS7501 - BS7502: 1989, BSEN 45003: 1995 and BS7511 - BS7514: 1989 (equivalent European Standard EN 45000 series) for the tests carried out.
Notes:
1 Where, in relation to a specific purpose, a European Council Directive prescribes requirements in relation to a particular characteristic of a material, component or other manufactured product, or part thereof, then where that characteristic complies with that requirement, it shall be deemed to satisfy any requirement of B2.1 insofar as it relates to that purpose.
2 And, for the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that products designed and manufactured in accordance with the requirements of a European Council Directive relating to a specific purpose do not have to comply with any specific standard or code of practice (British, international or other) referred to in the Technical Standards relating to any purpose covered by that Directive.
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