Standards Development

Scope

This document supports the elaboration of standardised measurement methods for the determination of stationary source emissions by manual or automated measurement methods.

This document describes the basic elements of standardised measurement methods for the determination of stationary source emissions.

This document is supplemented by an electronic template providing a uniform structure and common elements and texts. This document is addressed to working groups of CEN/TC 264 dealing with stationary source emissions. It aims at facilitating in the working groups the elaboration and the harmonisation of documents produced by CEN/TC 264. Such documents can be European standards (EN), European Technical Specifications (CEN/TS) or European Technical Reports (CEN/TR).

Purpose

This document has been prepared by the WG 46 “Task Force Emissions” of CEN/TC 264.

This document is intended to assist working groups of CEN/TC 264 when drafting new or revising existing documents on measurement methods for the determination of stationary source emissions. A document describing a standardized measurement method can be a

— European standard (EN);

— European Technical Specification (CEN/TS);

— European Technical Report (CEN/TR).

This document is designed to ensure that these documents are

— consistent regarding structure, definitions and general aspects like measurement uncertainty;

— in accordance and properly linked with other relevant documents such as EN 15259;

— providing appropriate technical references giving no rise to significant misunderstandings and/or significant differences of interpretation by testing laboratories and/or technical auditors.

It is considered that such significant differences, misunderstandings and/or inconsistencies would, on the one hand, impair the quality and comparability within the European Union of data produced according to those European emission measurement methods and on the other hand, result in unfair competition among European laboratories in the field of emission measurements. This document is applicable to manual and automated measurement methods.

This document is supplemented by an electronic template providing a uniform structure and common elements and texts. The uniform structure is based on the requirements and recommendations specified in the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations Part 3. This document can be applicable to other air quality fields.