National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 15685:2024.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee B/538/4, Building hardware.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

Contractual and legal considerations

This publication has been prepared in good faith, however no representation, warranty, assurance or undertaking (express or implied) is or will be made, and no responsibility or liability is or will be accepted by BSI in relation to the adequacy, accuracy, completeness or reasonableness of this publication. All and any such responsibility and liability is expressly disclaimed to the full extent permitted by the law.

This publication is provided as is, and is to be used at the recipient’s own risk.

The recipient is advised to consider seeking professional guidance with respect to its use of this publication.

This publication is not intended to constitute a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

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

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 27 February 2024.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, 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 United Kingdom.

European foreword

This document (EN 15685:2024) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 33 “Doors, windows, shutters, building hardware and curtain walling”, the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.

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 June 2025, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by September 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.

No existing standard is superseded.

The performance tests incorporated in this document are considered to be reproducible and as such will provide a consistent and objective assessment of the performance of these products throughout CEN Members.

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.

Introduction

The intended use for products according to this document is:

for use in doors in buildings;
for use on fire and smoke compartmentation doors fitted with door closing devices, to enable such doors to close reliably and thus achieve self-closing in the event of fire;
for use on closed fire doors to maintain the fire integrity of the door assembly.

This document is one of a series of European standards dedicated to building hardware products.

European standards for mechanically operated locks and latches (EN 12209) and for electromechanically operated locks and locking plates (EN 14846) are also available.

1 Scope

This document specifies product characteristics and test methods of mechanically operated multipoint locks and their locking plates.

This document covers multipoint locks their locking plates which are either manufactured and placed on the market in their entirety by one producer or assembled from sub-assemblies produced by more than one producer and designed to be used in combination.

This document does not cover assessment of the contribution of the product to the fire resistance of specific fire resistance and/or smoke control door set assemblies.

This document is not applicable to mechanically/electromechanically cylinders, handles, locks for windows, padlocks, locks for safes, furniture locks or prison locks.

This document does not specify mechanically operated locks or their locking plates which are specified by EN 12209.

2 Normative references

3 Terms, definitions, symbols and abbreviated terms

3.1 Terms and definitions

3.2 Symbols and abbreviated terms

4 Product characteristics

4.1 General

4.2 Category of use (first digit)

4.3 Durability characteristics (second digit)

4.4 Door mass and closing force (third digit)

4.5 Suitability for use on fire resistance and/or smoke control door set (forth digit)

4.6 Safety (fifth digit)

4.7 Corrosion resistance and temperature (sixth digit)

4.8 Security of locking point (seventh digit)

4.9 Key identification of lever locks (eight digit)

4.10 Security of anti-separation point (nine digit)

4.11 Clenching (tenth digit)

5 Testing, assessment and sampling methods

5.1 General

5.2 Test apparatus

5.3 Test procedure – Drilling procedure

5.4 Test methods – General

5.5 Test methods - Category of use

5.6 Test methods - Durability

5.7 Test methods - Door mass and closing force

5.8 Suitability for use on fire resistance and smoke control doors

5.9 Safety

5.10 Corrosion resistance and temperature

5.11 Security of locking point

5.12 Key identification of lever locks

5.13 Security of anti-separation point

5.14 Test methods - Clenching

6 Classification

6.1 Coding system

6.2 Classification

6.3 Example of classification for multipoint locks and their locking plates

7 Marking

7.1 On the product

7.2 On the packaging

Bibliography

BS EN 15685:2024

Building hardware. Requirements and test methods. Multipoint locks, latches and locking plates. Characteristics and test methods

Current, Under Review

Published:

31 Jan 2025