What is Construction Products Regulation ?

Scope of the CPR

The Construction Product Regulation (CPR) is intended to ensure the free circulation of construction product in the EU removing trade barriers eventually created by technical specification. This is achieved by providing a “common technical language", offering uniform assessment methods for the performance of construction products throughout the European Economic Area.

These assessment methods are compiled in harmonised technical specifications. This common technical language is to be applied by all stakeholders in the construction industry (regulatory authorities, manufacturers, distributors, end users ...)

The regulatory authorities of Member States when specifying requirements for construction works and by
the manufacturers when declaring the performance of their products, and by
the distributors when making the products available to their customers and by
their users (architects, engineers, constructors, etc.) when choosing the products that are best suited for their intended use in construction works.

CE marking
Declaration of Performance

Cables concerned by the regulation are those intended to be used for the supply of electricity and communications permanently installed in buildings and other civil engineering works.

Note that at this point the harmonised standard for fire resistant cables is still under development. This means that they are not yet subject to the CPR requirements and that their entire fire behaviour (fire reaction and fire resistance) is still to be assessed against the current national standards.

New fire performance tests

Fire Performance tests - CPR