National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 12312‑5:2021+A1:2025. It supersedes BS EN 12312‑5:2021, which is withdrawn.

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This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 March 2021.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 18 January 2021 and includes Amendment 1 approved by CEN on 9 December 2024.

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European foreword

This document (EN 12312‑5:2021+A1:2025) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 274 “Aircraft ground support equipment”, the secretariat of which is held by DIN.

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of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by July 2025, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by July 2025.

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This document includes Amendment 1 approved by CEN on 9 December 2024.

This document supersedes EN 12312‑5:2021.

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

EN 12312, Aircraft ground support equipment — Specific requirements, consists of the following parts:

Part 1: Passenger stairs;
Part 2: Catering vehicles;
Part 3: Conveyor belt vehicles;
Part 4: Passenger boarding bridges;
Part 5: Aircraft fuelling equipment (this document);
Part 6: Deicers and de-icing/anti-icing equipment;
Part 7: Air-craft movement equipment;
Part 8: Maintenance or service stairs and platforms;
Part 9: Container/Pallet loaders;
Part 10: Container/Pallet transfer transporters;
Part 11: Container/Pallet dollies and loose load trailers;
Part 12: Potable water service equipment;
Part 13: Lavatory service equipment;
Part 14: Disabled/incapacitated passenger boarding vehicles;
Part 15: Baggage and equipment tractors;
Part 16: Air start equipment;
Part 17: Air conditioning equipment;
Part 18: Nitrogen or Oxygen units;
Part 19: Aircraft jacks, axle jacks and hydraulic tail stanchions;
Part 20: Electrical ground power units.

Annexes C and D are normative; Annexes A, B, E and ZA are informative.

The main changes compared to the previous edition EN 12312‑5:2005+A1:2009 are the following ones:

Amendment A1:2009 was incorporated;
the Introduction was updated in relation to the deviation from recommended criteria;
the Scope was updated to cover reasonably foreseeable misuse;
Clause 2, Normative references, was updated;
the list of hazards was updated to exclude hazards due to traffic and repair and was moved to Annex A;
Clause 5, Safety requirements and/or measures, was completely revised and changed;
Subclause 5.6.5 Ergonomic aspects on AFE for fuel supply, was added
Subclause 6.1, Marking, and Subclause 6.2 Additional marking, were changed;
Clause 7, Verification of requirements, was updated;
Annex D, Ancillary equipment to access the aircraft fuelling panel (refuelling ladder), was added;
Annex ZA referring to the Machinery Directive 98/37/EC was replaced by Annex ZA referring to the new Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.

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 organizations 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.

Introduction

This document specifies health and safety requirements, as well as some functional and performance requirements for aircraft fuelling equipment (AFE) intended for use on all aircraft types commonly in service in civil air transport.

The minimum essential criteria are considered to be of primary importance in providing safe, serviceable, economical and practical AFE. Deviations should occur only after careful consideration, extensive testing, risk assessment and thorough service evaluation have shown alternative methods or conditions to be satisfactory. Such deviations are outside the scope of this document and a manufacturer should be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of protection.

The machinery concerned and the extent to which hazards, hazardous situations and events are covered are indicated in the Scope of this document.

This document is a type-C standard as stated in EN ISO 12100:2010.

This document is of relevance, in particular, for the following stakeholder groups representing the market players with regard to machinery safety:

machine manufacturers (small, medium and large enterprises);
health and safety bodies (regulators, accident prevention organizations, market surveillance, etc.).

Others can be affected by the level of machinery safety achieved with the means of the document by the above-mentioned stakeholder groups:

machine users/employers (small, medium and large enterprises);
machine users/employees (e.g. trade unions, organizations for people with special needs);
service providers, e.g. for maintenance (small, medium and large enterprises).
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The above-mentioned stakeholder groups have been given the possibility to participate at the drafting process of this document.

The machinery concerned and the extent to which hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events are covered are indicated in the Scope of this document.

When provisions of this type-C standard are different from those which are stated in type-A or type-B standards, the provisions of this type-C standard take precedence over the provisions of the other standards for machines that have been designed and built according to the provisions of this type-C standard. Deviations from requirements do not fall within the presumption of conformity given by the document.

In general, the European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR) is not applicable to AFE as they are not deemed to be used on public roads. However, certain requirements have been added in an informative Annex E.

The use of AFE on public roads is not intended with the following exceptions:

transportation of fuel from tank farms to refuelling areas out of the airport premises;
maintenance purposes with empty cargo tanks.

NOTE This could include the need of local traffic derogation (see EN 1915‑1:2023, Introduction, f) — negotiation).

The intended functions of AFE are:

loading fuel from the tank farm and/or a hydrant system to the AFE;
storage and transportation of fuel;
fuelling from the AFE to the aircraft;
filtration of the fuel;
metering the fuel for a transfer of custody;
defuelling the aircraft to the AFE;
flushing fuel from hydrant systems;
unloading AFE to the tank farm after defuelling of an aircraft;
transferring fuel from one AFE to another.

1 Scope

This document specifies the technical requirements to minimize the hazards listed in Clause 4 which can arise during the commissioning, operation and maintenance of AFE when used as intended, including misuse reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer, when carried out in accordance with the specifications given by the manufacturer or his authorized representative. It also takes into account some performance requirements recognized as essential by authorities, aircraft and ground support equipment (GSE) manufacturers as well as airlines, airports and fuelling companies.

This document applies to all types of aircraft fuelling equipment:

aircraft refuellers,
hydrant dispensers,
defuellers,
hydrant pit servicing vehicles,
pit cleaner vehicles, and
stationary dispensing units

intended to service aircraft with aviation fuels and to be operated on airfields, heliports and other aircraft refuelling related areas such as maintenance bases.

This document does not apply to:

AFE whose only power source for aircraft refuelling is directly applied manual effort,
hydrant systems, tank farms, pipework and underground tanks,
specific hazards due to the operation of the AFE in a potentially explosive atmosphere, and
built-in fire extinguisher systems.

No extra requirements on noise and vibration are provided other than those in EN 1915‑3:2004+A1:2009 and EN 1915‑4:2004+A1:2009.

NOTE EN 1915‑3:2004+A1:2009 and EN 1915‑4:2004+A1:2009 provide the general GSE vibration and noise requirements.

This document does not deal with hazards in respect to a standard automotive chassis and from other vehicles on the apron.

This document is not applicable to AFE which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document by CEN.

This part of the EN 12312 series when used in conjunction with EN 1915‑1:2023, EN 1915‑2:2001+A1:2009, EN 1915‑3:2004+A1:2009 (for vehicles) and EN 1915‑4:2004+A1:2009 provides the requirements for AFE.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 List of hazards

5 Safety requirements and/or measures

5.1 General requirements

5.2 Chassis, Engine

5.3 Additional requirements for trailers

5.4 Vehicle electrical system

5.5 Fuelling platforms

5.6 Specific fuelling equipment

5.7 Tanks and fittings

6 Information for use

6.1 General marking

6.2 Additional marking

6.3 Warnings

6.4 Instructions

6.5 General

7 Verification of requirements

Bibliography

BS EN 12312-5:2021+A1:2025

Aircraft ground support equipment. Specific requirements - Aircraft fuelling equipment

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Published:

31 Jan 2025