For any area that needs improvement, the first step is to replace commodity-based standards with performance-based standards.  “Performance" here always relates to "total building performance," so that, even though you can talk about the performance of a component part or sub-system, it must be measured in relation to the performance of the total building system.

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3. How to support innovation to enter the market?
Performance Paradigm Shift.
Expertise
Product manufacture
Plant
Construction Work
Contract
Regulations
- European
- National
Stakeholders
Certification:
Attestation of the
conformity of … against
a set of defined and
stated requirements ,
according to a defined
scheme, and in a well
specified context.
Assessment of construction process: in a defined context, determining
technical recommendations allowing guidance to the stakeholders in their
decisions on the reliable construction of a defined work.
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4. Simplifiedprocedures
(Art.36to38)
hEN
Different ways to EU marketing
Market
Declaration of Perf.
CE marking
Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 (of 9 March 2011)
Regulation (EC) No 764/2008 (of 9 July 2008)
MutualRecognitionof
NationalTechnicalDocument
ETAssessment
Free choice of a
manufacturer to
apply for an ETA
for a product
not or not fully
covered by a hEN
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5. EU harmonized technical specifications
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Declaration of
PerformanceCPR BRCW ID
Mandate to CEN
Request for ETA
hEN
EAD
ETA
Note: ETAG Published before 1st July 2013 may be used as EAD
The European Assessment Documents (EAD):
- developed and adopted by the organization of TABs: EOTA,
- support the assessment of product(s) and serve the issuing of European
Technical Assessments (ETA).
CPR: Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 - BRCW: Basic Requirements for Construction Works - ID: Interpretative documents
CEN: Comité Européen de Normalisation - hEN: European harmonized Standard - EAD: European Assessment Document - ETA: European Technical Assessment – TAB: Technical
Assessment Body

6. CPR - Meaning of CE Marking (Art. 8(2))
By affixing or having affixed the CE marking,
manufacturers indicate that they take
responsibility for the conformity of the construction
product with the declared performance
as well as the compliance with all applicable requirements
laid down in this Regulation and in other relevant Union
harmonisation legislation providing for its affixing.
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7. EAD – ETA – DOP process
ETA Request
Manufacturer’s
technical file
European
Assessment
Document (EAD)
European Technical
Assessment (ETA)
ETA Content
• Legal bases
• Definition of product-type(s) and intended use(s)
• Performance of product-type(s) and assessment
methods
• Assessment and verification of constancy of
performance
Declaration of
Performance
Assessment and
verification
of the constancy
of performance
(AVCP)
CE marking + instructions and safety info
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8. CPR as a Performance Paradigm Shift
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EOTA Added Value
Pre-standardization

9. Conclusion
• CPR clearly set the responsibility of a manufacturer placing a product on
the market, when it has drawn up a declaration of performance (DoP) and
CE marked its product (products fully covered by a hEN, or, for which an ETA has been issued on manufacturer’s
request);
• CE marking and DoP provide Data for market surveillance authorities;
• CPR forces Member States to model their rules on the basis of the
essential characteristics agreed in the harmonized technical specification;
• BUT, the CPR approach doesn’t consider the users’ (all construction
stakeholders) needs for reliable technical information on the product as
part of a construction system.
The ETA/EAD approach promoted by the European Commission is in that
respect reversing the progress made in EU harmonization in the framework
of the CPD (Directive 89/106/EEC)
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10. EOTA
International non profit organisation (a.i.s.b.l)
Thank you for your attention!
Peter D. Schellinck – Secretary General
Kunstlaan 40 Avenue des Arts, 1040 Brussels
Tel 00 32 2 502 69 00 - info@eota.eu – www.eota.eu
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