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It came to ARGE's attention that a Czech Testhouse certified hardware products according to EN 1627, burglar resistance. After discussion of the issue in ARGE's WG C it became obvious, that this practice is not according to the CPR and the CEN rules. ARGE steered letters to our Czech member MEZA...

The presentations from this years Annual Conference are now available for download. If you go to "Ressources" you'll find the presentations given on our Conference in Stratford upon Avon. Besides the introduction about the DHF and the report of the board you can find the - EPD Project status...

The webpage has recently been updated. If you are a member of ARGE, please use the "Members Resources" in order to download latest minutes and documentations. Besides the latest minutes of the board you can also find our communication with the Commission Services regarding delays in...

Recently we received the signed contract from the CEN Management Board, where ARGE has been agreed as Liaison Member for CEN/TC33. This kind of membership had been introduced by CEN since about a year. It gives Pan-European Associations  as ARGE the oportunity to give input and work with...

Using the Path: Resources - Members Resources - Members Downloads - Important Guidance Documents you find the latest versions of templates for DoPs for those products, that might need DoPs in accordance with their CE-marking.

WG C decided to update the template for the DoP "Emergency Exit Device" according to EN 179. Please find the latest version under DoP Example...Rev2 on this download section.

WG C has prepared Templates for DoP's for all of the harmonised product types of the locks- and builders hardware branch. In the internal sector of this Wesite you can find those template for download under item "Important Guidance Documents"

As reported before, the ARGE Annual Conference will be held from September 5th to 7th, 2013 in Budapest. On March 13th a first organisational meeting with the partner company, KABA Elzett Hungary was conducted. The ARGE member of the Executive board, Mr. Hans Weissenböck and the...

The WG C met in Paris on December 11th, 2012. It was convened by Pierre Vilain. Major topic was the discussion on how to prepare DoPs for Harware Products in accordance with the CPR, the CEN Consultant and the NAtional Authorities. In between WG C presented templates of DoPs for 3 certain...

The SG Sustainability met on 10th December 2012 in Paris. The meeting was convened by David Whitworth. David lined out the status of the activities, including the results of a questionnaire between the members. It was decided to go on finding soulutions facing the "Sustainability of buildings"...

The lectures took place this year on a cruise ship sailing from Finland to Sweden.  The themes of the lectures were on Sustainability and The Construction Products Regulations. The guest speakers were both from Scandinavia. (Scandinavia itself being the relevant place to hold these...

This week ARGE's 60th Annual Conference takes place. We will be sailing through the Gulf of Finland and across the Baltic Sea, from Helsinki to Stockholm on Thursday 13th September 2012. On Thursday the General Meeting will be held at 16:30 with Elections, Presentations and Reports. Jorma...

Alessandro Brunelli ARGE’S Technical Consultant has produced a brief but informative list of CEN Terms and Acronyms. This can be found in the Resources section of the ARGE website. To help use decide what would be most useful we request that you e-mail z.quinlan@arge.org   if...

EDSF deals with fire resistance requirements for emergency exits and doors on escape routes. It mirrors the work of TC/127/WG3 where EXAPs are produced. These are application documents evaluating the fire resistance of those door- shutter / hardware combinations, which are not covered by the...

ARGE held its 59 th Annual Conference and first Technical Meeting in Düsseldorf, 14-17 September 2011. ARGE is a Trade Association that represents Lock and Hardware Manufacturers within Europe and Scandinavia. Technical Thirty delegates attended the Technical Meeting with reports on...