In the area of furniture fire safety, there are no harmonised EU standards. The Irish standard (I.S. 419:2011) and regulations (SI No. 316/1995) were introduced to protect consumers by preventing the rapid spread of a fire started on or near furniture. The Irish Regulations set out a more robust safety standard than applies in other EU Member States in order to provide a higher level of safety in this area.
Due to competing priorities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, progress on the assessment of submissions was delayed, however analysis of the submissions has resumed again at pace.
I hope to have recommendations on any revised regulations on foot of that evaluation process later in the year.