Standards supporting the Construction Products Regulation

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Four standards supporting the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) 2011/305 have been published, strengthening the regulatory framework for residential fuel-burning appliances. 

Three of the standards focus on different categories of solid fuel appliances:

• EVS-EN 16510-2-5:2025 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.
• EVS-EN 16510-2-7:2025 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.
• EVS-EN 16510-2-10:2025 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 for liquid fuels has also been cited:

• EVS-EN 1-2:2025 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 harmonised technical tools to demonstrate compliance with the Construction Products Regulation. They support product safety, performance, and transparency across Europe. 

Source: CEN-CENELEC.