EN 15947-5:2010

This European Standard specifies requirements for the construction, performance and primary packaging of fireworks of category 1, 2 and 3 of the following types:-aerial wheels;-bangers;-batteries and combinations;-Bengal flames;-Bengal matches;-Bengal sticks;-Christmas crackers;-crackling granules;-double bangers;-flash bangers;-flash pellets;-fountains;-ground movers;-ground spinners;-hand-held sparklers;-jumping crackers;-jumping ground spinners;-mines;-mini rockets;-non-hand-held sparklers;-novelty matches;-party poppers;-rockets;-Roman candles;-serpents;-shot tubes;-snaps;-spinners;-table bombs;-throwdowns;-wheels.This European Standard does not apply for articles containing military explosives, commercial blasting agents or pyrotechnic composition that includes any of the following substances:-arsenic or arsenic compounds;-hexachlorobenzene;-mixtures containing a mass fraction of chlorates greater than 80 %;-mixtures of chlorates with metals;-mixtures of chlorates with red phosphorus (except when used in Christmas crackers, party poppers or snaps);-mixtures of chlorates with potassium hexacyanoferrate(II);-mixtures of chlorates with sulfur (these mixtures are allowed for friction heads only);-mixtures of chlorates with sulfides;-lead or lead compounds;-mercury compounds;-white phosphorus;-picrates or picric acid;-potassium chlorate with a mass fraction of bromates greater than 0,15 %;-sulfur with an acidity, expressed in mass fraction of sulphuric acid, greater than 0,002 %;-zirconium with a particle size of less than 40 µm.