New standards supporting the Construction Products Regulation

Three of the standards were prepared by CEN/TC 295 ‘Residential solid fuel burning appliances’ and focus on different categories of solid fuel appliances:

• EN 16510-2-5 ‘Residential solid fuel burning appliances – Part 2-5: Slow heat release appliances’ specifies requirements and procedures for assessment and verification of constancy of performance (AVCP) for freestanding, manually fuelled intermittent-burning appliances with heat storage capacity. The appliances may optionally be equipped with boilers or heat exchangers for central heating, may be supplied assembled or as prefabricated site-built units, and are designed to burn specified solid fuels such as wood logs, pellets, briquettes, and mineral fuels.

• EN 16510-2-7 ‘Residential solid fuel burning appliances – Part 2-7: Combination appliances fired by wood logs and pellets’ sets out AVCP requirements and procedures for freestanding and inset space heaters, cookers, and combination appliances fired mechanically with wood pellets and manually with wood logs.

• EN 16510-2-10 ‘Residential solid fuel burning appliances – Part 2-10: Multi-firing sauna stoves fired by natural wood logs’ covers AVCP requirements and procedures for multi-firing sauna stoves in which the heating stones are separated from and indirectly heated by the fire and the flue gases and which may be re-fuelled with several fuel loads.

In addition, one standard developed by CEN/TC 46 ‘Fireplaces for liquid fuels’ has also been cited:

• EN 1-2:2025 ‘Residential liquid fuel burning appliances – Part 2: Flued oil stoves with vaporizing burners’ specifies AVCP requirements and procedures for oil stoves with one or more vaporizing burners, a nominal heating capacity of not more than 15 kW, and equipped with either a draught regulator or a combustion air limiter.

With their citation in the Official Journal, these four standards provide manufacturers and other stakeholders with clear, harmonized technical tools to demonstrate compliance with the Construction Products Regulation. They support product safety, performance, and transparency across the European market, while contributing to consistent implementation of EU legislation in the field of residential fuel-burning appliances.