The Construction Products Regulation (CPR) is the new European legislation that establishes the basic requirements and harmonized essential characteristics that all products intended for use in construction must meet within the EU. The CPR specifies seven basic safety requirements that construction projects must meet, one of which is fire safety. The CPR defines a construction product as one intended to be permanently incorporated into construction works, in the broadest sense—not only buildings but also civil engineering works. Therefore, this includes power, communications, data, and control cables.

The essential characteristics currently applicable to cables under the CPR are reaction to fire and the emission of hazardous substances during normal use. The European Union has established a single, uniform classification system across Europe—a common language for defining the fire reaction performance of cables. To this end, classes have been defined that indicate the cables’ contribution to fire spread based on a series of parameters obtained from the corresponding tests.

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