scope:

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 I_2N, I_2R, I_3R, I_2E(S), I_2E(R), I_2Esi, I_2Er, I_2R and the equivalent double and triple categories which include these indices;

i) appliances of category II_2E+3B.

This document does not cover the requirements relating to third family gas cylinders, their pressure regulators and their connection.