TY - CONF A1 - Lohrer, Christian A1 - Fink, Heidrun A1 - Kurth, Lutz T1 - Failure rates of consumer fireworks - testing experiences by the notified body BAM N2 - Before fireworks articles are permitted to be placed on the EU market, they need to undergo several tests to demonstrate their functional behavior. The European Directive, 2007/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 May 2007 on the placing on the market of pyrotechnic articles, defines so-called “essential safety requirements” (ESR, refer to the respective Annex I) which must be met by all pyrotechnic articles. The specific tests and further requirements on function and construction are defined in the downstream harmonized Standards. By application of these Standards, a conformity assumption to the ESR is triggered. In case of consumer fireworks, the EN 15947 applies. The provisions of Directive 2007/23/EC were implemented into German legislation in October 2009 and numerous conformity assessment procedures (e.g. approval tests) of consumer fireworks have since been performed by the European notified body, BAM. This paper focuses on consumer fireworks and aims at giving an overview of the achieved results, such as observed failure rates, nonconformities depending on the fireworks types, findings of prohibited Chemicals, etc. A comparison with other published test results is presented as well. T2 - 14th International symposium on fireworks CY - Changsha, China DA - 14.10.2013 KW - Altitude measurement techniques KW - Measurement uncertainties KW - Standardisation PY - 2013 SN - 978-0-9867279-4-8 SN - 978-0-9867279-6-2 SP - 166 EP - 180 AN - OPUS4-29383 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Lohrer, Christian A1 - Kampa, Andreas A1 - Fink, Heidrun A1 - Kurth, Lutz A1 - Alef, G. T1 - Burst height measurements of spherical shells for different calibers and mortar lengths T2 - 13th International symposium on fireworks CY - Valletta, Malta DA - 2012-04-23 KW - Altitude measurement techniques KW - Measurement uncertainties KW - Standardisation PY - 2012 SN - 978-0-9867279-3-1 SP - 145 EP - 158 AN - OPUS4-25795 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Lohrer, Christian A1 - Fink, Heidrun A1 - Kurth, Lutz T1 - Quality systems for fireworks - auditing experiences by the notified body BAM T2 - 13th International symposium on fireworks CY - Valletta, Malta DA - 2012-04-23 KW - 2007/23/EC KW - QS modules KW - Product safety PY - 2012 SN - 978-0-9867279-3-1 SP - 159 EP - 172 AN - OPUS4-25796 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -