BSEN16139-2013(6)

BS EN 16139:2013EN 16139:2013 (E)

Introduction

This European Standard has been developed as a merging project out of the following European Standards: EN 15373:2007, Furniture – Strength, durability and safety – Requirements for non-domestic seating EN 13761:2002, Office furniture – Visitors chairs

All requirements in EN 16139 are taken from these two standards, where the new test level 2 reflects test level 3 of EN 15373 and the new test level 1 reflects test level 2 of EN 15373 and the former EN 13761. The correspondent test method standard for this document, EN 1728, was also under revision in the same time period. In order to avoid a further revision of EN 16139 for the alignment with EN 1728, this project was slowed down until the final draft of EN 1728 was available.

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