This European Standard 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 European Standard does not apply for articles containing military explosives, commercial blasting agents or 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.