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This European Standard specifies requirements for the construction, performance, primary packaging and labelling of hand-held sparklers and the corresponding test methods. It is applicable to fireworks which are classified as hand-held sparklers in categories 1 and 2 in EN 14035-2 and which are contained in a primary pack. It is not applicable to hand-held sparklers containing pyrotechnic composition that includes any of the following substances: - arsenic or arsenic compounds; - mixtures containing a mass fraction of chlorates greater than 80 %; - mixtures of chlorates with metals; - mixtures of chlorates with red phosphorus; - mixtures of chlorates with potassium hexacyanoferrate(II); - mixtures of chlorates with sulfur; - mixtures of chlorates with sulfides; - lead or lead compounds; - mercury compounds; - white phosphorus; - picrates or picric acid; - potassium chlorate with a mass fraction of bromates greater than 0,15 %; - sulfur with an acidity, expressed in mass fraction of sulphuric acid, greater than 0,002 %; - zirconium with a particle size of less than 40 mm. Schemes for type testing of hand-held sparklers and batch testing of hand-held sparklers are specified in annex A and annex B respectively.