BRITISHSTANDARDBSEN12288:2003IncorporatingCorrigendumNo.1Industrialvalves—CopperalloygatevalvesTheEuropeanStandardEN12288:2003hasthestatusofaBritishStandardICS23.060.30����������������������������������������������������������������������CopyrightEuropeanCommitteeforStandardizationProvidedbyIHSunderlicensewithCENNotforResaleNoreproductionornetworkingpermittedwithoutlicensefromIHS--```,-`-`,,`,,`,`,,`---BSEN12288:2003ThisBritishStandard,waspublishedundertheauthorityoftheStandardsPolicyandStrategyCommitteeon23July2003©BSI8October2003ISBN0580422925NationalforewordThisBritishStandardistheofficialEnglishlanguageversionofEN12288:2003.ThisstandardsupersedesallpartsconcernedwithgatevalvesinBS5154:1991,whichwillbewithdrawnonlywhenEN12360andEN12328arepublishedasBritishStandards.TheUKparticipationinitspreparationwasentrustedbyTechnicalCommitteePSE/7,Industrialvalves,toSubcommitteePSE/7/2,Industrialvalve—Copperalloygate,globeandcheckvalves,whichhastheresponsibilityto:Alistoforganizationsrepresentedonthissubcommitteecanbeobtainedonrequesttoitssecretary.Cross-referencesTheBritishStandardswhichimplementinternationalorEuropeanpublicationsreferredtointhisdocumentmaybefoundintheBSICatalogueunderthesectionentitled“InternationalStandardsCorrespondenceIndex”,orbyusingthe“Search”facilityoftheBSIElectronicCatalogueorofBritishStandardsOnline.Thispublicationdoesnotpurporttoincludeallthenecessaryprovisionsofacontract.Usersareresponsibleforitscorrectapplication.CompliancewithaBritishStandarddoesnotofitselfconferimmunityfromlegalobligations.—aidenquirerstounderstandthetext;—presenttotheresponsibleinternational/Europeancommitteeanyenquiriesontheinterpretation,orproposalsforchange,andkeeptheUKinterestsinformed;—monitorrelatedinternationalandEuropeandevelopmentsandpromulgatethemintheUK.SummaryofpagesThisdocumentcomprisesafrontcover,aninsidefrontcover,theENtitlepage,pages2to23andabackcover.TheBSIcopyrightnoticedispl...