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This European Prestandard describes a laboratory test method in which small samples of the wood-based panel product under test are exposed to attack by a range of wood-destroying basidiomycete fungi in pure culture. The thickness of the test specimens varies, since it is dictated by the tickness of the wood-based panel product under test. In order to make comparisons of the decay resistance of wood-based panel products of different thickness, solid wood specimens of the same dimensions as the wood-based panel product test specimens are included.