Background

The Danish Building Regulations provide that domestic water-supply installations shall be constructed in accordance with the Danish Code of Practice for Domestic Water-Supply Installations ("Norm for vandinstallationer"), DS 439, and that drainage from buildings with related sanitary drainage and waste-water installations shall be constructed in accordance with the Danish Code of Practice for Sanitary Drainage - Water-Water Installations ("Norm for afløbsinstallationer"), DS 432.

According to the above codes of practice factory-made products which are incorporated in or connected to water-supply or drainage systems shall be subject to approval by the Danish Ministry of Housing, unless the actual product is exempted from the current approval regulations. Information to that effect is given by ETA-Danmark, which has been notified by the Danish Ministry of Housing to handle and administer the approval scheme.

The approvals serve as documentation that the approved product conforms to the functional requirements provided by the Danish Building Regulations and related codes of practice.

Acceptance criteria

The basis of approval shall be the current codes of practice for water-supply and drainage systems, respectively, which means that the approval scheme covers appliances incorporated in the part of a water-distribution system or a drainage system situated in buildings and appurtenant sites.

The basis shall furthermore be the current acceptance criteria, standards and test conditions. Where such conditions or standards do not exist, the requirements and test conditions shall be fixed to the best of our judgement.

In each individual case ETA-Danmark determines whether approval can be granted on the basis of existing information on the product, e.g. reports from foreign testing institutes. If not, testing can be performed by a testing laboratory recognised by ETA-Danmark and according to the test conditions developed by ETA-Danmark . The test results will be a part of the evaluation of the fitness for use of the product.

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