Key Benefits:
1. The Directorate-General for Industry and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises will draw up and keep up to date a non-binding technical guide for the practical application of the provisions of the Regulation and the annexes approved by this Directive. decree, which may provide clarification on general concepts.
2. Exceptionally, the Directorate-General for Industry and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises may authorise the use of guides and technical provisions with alternative technical solutions to those of the Regulation approved by this royal decree, provided that provide an equivalent level of effectiveness in the operation of fire protection facilities.
3. The competent administrative body may require for the assessment of the level of equivalent effectiveness a technical report issued by a qualified and independent body.
Final disposition fourth. UNE and other internationally recognised standards.
1. The Appendix to Annex I to the Fire Protection Facilities Regulation includes a list of UNE standards and other internationally recognised standards, which are enforced, in whole or in part, in order to facilitate adaptation to the state of the art at every moment. These standards are identified by their titles and numbering, including the year of editing.
2. Where one or more rules vary their year of issue, subsequent amendments to them are published or new rules are published, they shall be updated in the list of standards by means of a decision of the holder of the Directorate-General for Industry and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, in which the date from which the use of the old edition of the standard will no longer have regulatory effects should be stated.
Where such a resolution has not been passed, it shall be understood that the regulatory conditions are also met by the edition of the rule subsequent to that listed in the list of standards, provided that the same does not change basic criteria and limit to update tests or increase the intrinsic safety of the material concerned.
Final disposition fifth. Entry into force.
This royal decree will enter into force six months after its publication in the "Official Gazette of the State".
Given in Madrid, on May 22, 2017.
FELIPE R.
The Minister of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness,
LUIS DE GUINDOS JURADO
FIRE PROTECTION FACILITIES REGULATION
CHAPTER I
General provisions
Article 1. Object and scope of material application.
1. The purpose of this Regulation is to determine the conditions and requirements for the design, installation/application, maintenance and inspection of the equipment, systems and components that make up the protection facilities active against fires.
2. In addition, this Regulation shall apply in respect of those aspects relating to fire-protection installations not covered by specific legislation, with the exception of the tunnels of State roads, whose safety regulation will be governed by Royal Decree 635/2006 of 26 May on minimum safety requirements in road tunnels in the State.
Article 2. Scope of subjective application.
1. The provisions of this Regulation shall be subject to the provisions of this Regulation both the installation companies and the maintenance companies of fire protection facilities.
2. The technical requirements of this Regulation shall also apply to manufacturers, importers, distributors or bodies involved in the certification or technical assessment of the products and to all those who may be affected by the Regulation. this regulation.
Article 3. Definitions.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall be met:
(a) Active fire protection: is the set of means, equipment and systems, whether manual or automatic, whose specific functions are the detection, control and/or extinction of a fire, facilitating the evacuation of occupants and preventing the fire from spreading, thus minimizing personal and material losses.
(b) Fire protection products: equipment, systems and components that integrate active fire protection facilities.
(c) CE marking: marking by which the manufacturer indicates that the product is in conformity with all applicable requirements laid down in Community legislation and harmonisation providing for its affixing.
(d) Technical assessment: assessment of the basic requirements related to the intended use and evaluation and monitoring of factory production control of products (equipment, systems or components) of protection against fires.
(e) Technical assessment bodies: those carrying out activities to assess the basic requirements of the product related to the intended use, assessment of factory control and monitoring the annual production control at the factory. Those bodies shall meet the following criteria:
1. Act with impartiality, objectivity and transparency, having the appropriate organization and technical personnel competent for the technical evaluation of equipment, systems or their components of protection against fires.
2. The experience of tests, inspections and/or evaluations, supported by the appropriate implementation of quality management systems applied to the activities they perform.
3. Dispose of specific procedures, expressly validated by the Autonomous Community where the entity presents the responsible declaration, which collect the systematic established for the assessment and monitoring of the technical evaluations to be performed.
4. º. They will provide permanent information to the public on the scope and validity of the technical evaluations carried out.
(f) Installation company: entity that, following the indications of the project or the technical documentation and in compliance with the conditions set out in this Regulation, performs one or more of the following activities:
1. Ubica and/or install fire protection equipment and/or systems.
2. ° Colocates the signals, beacon and/or evacuation planes of the luminescent signalling systems.
g) Holding company: entity that, in compliance with the conditions set out in this Regulation, performs the maintenance operations of fire protection equipment and/or systems.
CHAPTER II
Fire protection products
Article 4. Requirements for fire protection products.
Final disposition second. Regulatory enablement.
1. The Minister of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness will, in the field of his competences, dictate the necessary provisions to ensure the proper execution and development of this royal decree.
2. The Minister for Economic Affairs, Industry and Competitiveness is empowered to amend and update the Regulation which is approved by this royal decree, in order to adapt it to the progress of the technique and the provisions of international or European law technical nature of the matter.
Final disposition third. Application measures.<