scope:

This International Standard applies to both

- semi-elaborated natural cork stoppers and colmated natural cork stoppers at the definitive dimensions stage, and

- finished natural cork stoppers and colmated natural cork stoppers ready to use.

It describes the anomalies of cork stoppers that can be detected by visual examination of the manufacturer or the end-user.

These anomalies, according to their size, can have functional or not functional consequence being able to later, more or less, the cork stoppers' sealing capacity.

On the basis of a common sampling example, this International Standard proposes for all these anomalies some specifications for stoppers.