Standards & certifications.
Composite Group GFRP rebar holds the first European Technical Assessment issued for GFRP reinforcement. It's the paper trail that lets a European specification use GFRP without a national special approval — together with the international design codes it's specified against.
The first European
ETA for GFRP.
GFRP rebar from Composite Group is assessed and certified under the EU Construction Products Regulation (CPR). The chain is four linked documents — and getting the names right matters, because they are often conflated.
The European Technical Assessment for the product — Composite GFRP bar reinforcement TopBAR. Version 01, issued 20 November 2024.
The European Assessment Document the ETA is based on — the harmonised method for assessing FRP reinforcing bars.
The Certificate of Constancy of Performance under AVCP system 1+, issued by Notified Body TSÚS (No. 1301).
The ETA and certificate enable CE marking under the CPR — the legal market-access route across the EU.
ETA, EAD, CE —
not the same thing.
The EAD is the assessment method. The ETA is our product’s assessment against it. The CPR certificate confirms that production stays within the assessed performance. CE marking is the legal mark those three make possible. A specification should reference the ETA number (23/0523), not the EAD code alone.
Specified
around the world.
Beyond the European market-access chain, GFRP-reinforced concrete is designed to established international codes. The relevant references by region:
| Region | Standards & design codes |
|---|---|
| European Union | ETA 23/0523 · EAD 260023-00-0301 · fib Model Code 2020 §17 · Eurocode 2 Annex R (draft) |
| United States | ACI 440.11-22 · ACI 440.1R |
| Canada | CSA S806 · CSA S807 |
| International | ISO 10406-1 |
Where a national
code is not yet in place.
Some markets do not yet have a national code for FRP reinforcement. There, projects are designed to the international codes — ACI, CSA, fib and ISO — and certified through the European Technical Assessment as a project-specific route. We support the engineering office through that path.
Certificates
to download.
The ETA and the CPR certificate are available to download. The TSÚS approval, the EPD (EN 15804 +A2) and per-diameter mill test certificates ship with delivery or on request.