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This document specifies requirements for the construction, performance and primary packaging of fireworks of category 1, 2 and 3 of the following types: . aerial wheels . bangers . batteries and combinations . Bengal flames . Bengal matches . Bengal sticks . Christmas crackers . crackling granules . double bangers . flash bangers . flash pellets . fountains . ground movers . ground spinners . hand-held sparklers . jumping crackers . jumping ground spinners . mines . mini rockets . non-hand-held sparklers . novelty matches . party poppers . rockets . Roman candles . serpents . shot tubes . snaps . spinners . table bombs . throwdowns . wheels This standard does not apply for articles containing pyrotechnic composition that includes any of the following substances: . arsenic or arsenic compounds . hexachlorobenzene . mixtures containing a mass fraction of chlorates greater than 80 % . mixtures of chlorates with metals . mixtures of chlorates with red phosphorus (except when used in Christmas crackers, party poppers or snaps) . mixtures of chlorates with potassium hexacyanoferrate(II) . mixtures of chlorates with sulfur (these mixtures are allowed for friction heads only) . 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 µm.