The European Committee for Standardisation, CEN, has ratified six European product standards for parquet and wood flooring.
The adopted standards cover: solid parquet elements with grooves and/or tongues, EN 13226; solid lamparquet products, EN 13227; solid wood overlay flooring elements including an interlocking system, EN 13228; mosaic parquet elements, EN 13488; multilayer parquet elements, EN 13489; solid pre-assembed hardwood boards, EN 13629. National standardisation bodies must now withdraw national standards and replace them with the European provisions.
The standards will serve as a basis for the future “harmonised” parquet standard that will set the requirements for CE marking following the European Construction Products Directive.
The European Federation of the Parquet Industry is heavily involved in the preparation of this document and is contributing to a solution for the “reaction to fire” requirement which should make it possible for parquet manufacturers to base future marking on a well-defined table with fixed values, therefore avoiding additional fire testing of products and consequently costs.
