Domestic cooking appliances burning gas - Safety. General
Domestic cooking appliances burning gas - Safety. General
Domestic cooking appliances burning gas - Safety. General
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Domestic cooking appliances burning gas - Safety. General

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1   Scope

This document specifies the requirements and methods of test for the safety and marking of freestanding and built-in domestic cooking appliances burning combustible gases given in EN 437:2021, referred to in the text as “appliances”.
The appliances covered by this document are intended to be used in a domestic dwelling.
This document covers the following types of domestic cooking appliances:
  • — independent freestanding hobs;
  • — independent built-in hobs;
  • — hobs and grills;
  • — table cookers;
  • — freestanding ovens;
  • — built-in ovens;
  • — freestanding or built-in grills;
  • — griddles;
  • — freestanding cookers;
  • — built-in cookers.
This document also applies to gas cooking appliances incorporating electrical heating elements (e.g. gas-electric cooking appliances).
For appliances intended to be used in caravans, or motorhomes/mobile homes or on board of ships or aircraft, additional requirements may be necessary.
This document does not apply to:
  1. a) outdoor appliances;
  2. b) appliances connected to a combustion products evacuation duct;
  3. c) appliances having a pyrolytic gas oven;
  4. d) appliances incorporating flame supervision devices and having an automatic ignition device for which the duration of the ignition attempt is limited by design;
  5. e) appliances equipped with a burner that is periodically ignited and extinguished under the control of an automatic on/off device;
  6. f) appliances equipped with an oven and/or with a grill having a fan:
    1. 1) either for the supply of combustion air or for the evacuation of the products of combustion;
    2. 2) or for the circulation of the products of combustion within the compartments;
  7. g) appliances incorporating one or more hob or grillburners that enable the user to program the delayed start of the cooking cycle;
  8. h) appliances of categories I2N, I2R, I3R, I2E(S), I2E(R), I2Esi, I2Er, I2R and the equivalent double and triple categories which include these indices;
  9. i) appliances of category II2E+3B.
This document does not cover the requirements relating to third family gas cylinders, their pressure regulators and their connection.