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This document specifies the requirements and methods of test for the safety and marking of freestanding and built-in domestic cooking appliances burning combustible gases given in EN 437:2021, referred to in the text as "appliances". The appliances covered by this document are intended to be used in a domestic dwelling. This document covers the following types of domestic cooking appliances: - independent freestanding hobs; - independent built-in hobs; - hobs and grills; - table cookers; - freestanding ovens; - built-in ovens; - freestanding or built-in grills; - griddles; - freestanding cookers; - built-in cookers. This document also applies to gas cooking appliances incorporating electrical heating elements (e.g. gas-electric cooking appliances). For appliances intended to be used in caravans, or motorhomes/mobile homes or on board of ships or aircraft, additional requirements may be necessary. This document does not apply to: a) outdoor appliances; b) appliances connected to a combustion products evacuation duct; c) appliances having a pyrolytic gas oven; d) appliances incorporating flame supervision devices and having an automatic ignition device for which the duration of the ignition attempt is limited by design; e) appliances equipped with a burner that is periodically ignited and extinguished under the control of an automatic on/off device; f) appliances equipped with an oven and/or with a grill having a fan: 1) either for the supply of combustion air or for the evacuation of the products of combustion; 2) or for the circulation of the products of combustion within the compartments; g) appliances incorporating one or more hob or grill burners that enable the user to program the delayed start of the cooking cycle; h) appliances of categories I2N, I2R, I3R, I2E(S), I2E(R), I2Esi, I2Er, I2R and the equivalent double and triple categories which include these indices; i) appliances of category II2E+3B. This document does not cover the requirements relating to third family gas cylinders, their pressure regulators and their connection.