National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 71‑14:2025. It supersedes BS EN 71‑14:2018, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee CW/15, Safety of toys.

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This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 October 2025.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 22 September 2025.

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European foreword

This document (EN 71‑14:2025) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 52 “Safety of toys”, the secretariat of which is held by DS.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by April 2026, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by October 2026.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 71‑14:2018.

This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CEN by the European Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these requests for its Member States.

For the relationship with EU Legislation, see informative Annex ZA, which is an integral part of this document.

Additional information on the background and rationale for various requirements of this document is given in Annex A.

This document constitutes the 14th part of the EN 71 series of standards on safety of toys.

EN 71, Safety of toys, consists of the following parts:

Part 1: Mechanical and physical properties;
Part 2: Flammability;
Part 3: Migration of certain elements;
Part 4: Experimental sets for chemistry and related activities;
Part 5: Chemical toys (sets) other than experimental sets;
Part 7: Finger paints — Requirements and test methods;
Part 8: Activity toys for domestic use;
Part 10: Organic chemical compounds — Sample preparation and extraction;
Part 11: Organic chemical compounds — Methods of analysis;
Part 12: N-Nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances;
Part 13: Olfactory board games, cosmetic kits and gustative games;
Part 14: Trampolines for domestic use [this document];
Part 15: Formamide in foam toy materials (content) (under development);
Part 16: Certain chlorinated phosphorus flame retardants (TCEP, TCPP, TDCP) in toy materials;
Part 17: Certain isothiazolinones (MIT, CIT, BIT) in aqueous toy materials;
Part 18: Phenol in aqueous (content) and polymeric (migration) toy materials;
Part 19: Migration of bisphenol A from toy materials;
Part 20: Microbiological safety of toys containing accessible aqueous media (under development).

It is up to the user of the standard to determine whether or not a toy is included in the scope of several of the above parts of the EN 71 series, and to apply each applicable standard accordingly. Normative references from one part of the EN 71 series to another, are therefore normally not provided in the individual parts.

NOTE 1 In addition to the above parts of EN 71, the following documents have been published:

CEN/TR 15071, Safety of toys — National translations of warnings and instructions for use in EN 71;
CEN/TR 15371 (all parts), Safety of toys — Interpretations;
CEN/TR 16918, Safety of toys — Children’s mouthing behaviour in contact with toys;
CEN/TR 17695, Safety of toys — Mechanical and physical properties — Guidance on categorization of projectile toys within EN 71‑1;
CEN/TS 17973, Safety of toys – Categorization of slime type materials;
CEN/TR 18217, Safety of toys — Migration of certain elements from (hard) polymers (under development);
CEN/TR 18240, Safety of toys — Mechanical and physical properties - Guidance on the requirements for food-imitating toys in EN 71-1 (under development);
CEN ISO/TR 8124‑8, Safety of toys — Part 8: Age determination - First age grade for the appropriate play of toys.

NOTE 2 Words in italics (apart from document titles) are defined in Clause 3 (Terms and definitions).

The following significant changes have been implemented in this new edition:

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

1 Scope

This document specifies requirements and test methods for toy trampolines for domestic use, their access devices and their enclosures, intended for outdoor and/or indoor use by one person at a time.

The scope of this document excludes:

inclined mat toy trampolines;
inflatable toy trampolines;
toy trampolines with additional features, e.g. tents, basketball hoop.

NOTE The document also does not apply to non-toy products such as

— floating inflatable trampolines, covered by the EN ISO 25649 series;

— trampolines used as gymnastic equipment, covered by EN 13219;

— fitness trampolines, including trampolines for medical use;

— trampolines used in public playgrounds, e.g. bouncing facilities according to EN 1176‑1.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Trampoline categories

5 Requirements

5.1 General requirements for the trampoline construction (see A.3)

5.2 Resistance of materials subject to weathering (see A.4)

5.3 Entrapment (see A.5)

5.4 Pinching and crushing hazards (see 7.7 and A.6)

5.5 Sharp edges, sharp points and protruding parts

5.6 Access devices

5.7 Padding (see 7.7 and A.7)

5.8 Strength (see A.8)

5.9 Mat deflection (see A.9)

5.10 Stability

5.11 Tool for assessing a correct hole depth for buried toy trampolines

6 Warnings, markings and instructions (see A.10)

6.1 General

6.2 Warnings and markings on the product (see A.10)

6.3 Warnings and markings on the packaging (see A.10)

6.4 Warnings and information in the instructions for use (see A.10)

7 Test methods

7.1 Dynamic tests

7.2 Strength

7.3 Stability (see 5.10)

7.4 Testing of the assembly (see 5.1.3.1 and 5.1.3.2)

7.5 Weathering resistance tests (see 5.2)

7.6 Mat deflection test (see 5.9)

7.7 Test for padding and for pinching and crushing hazards (see 5.4 and 5.7.1)

7.8 Test for retaining wall system (see 5.1.2.3)

Bibliography

BS EN 71-14:2025

Safety of toys - Trampolines for domestic use

Current

Published:

31 Oct 2025