# Directive 2014/68/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of pressure equipment (recast) (Text with EEA relevance), Division 2.2.2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Design for adequate strength shall be based on either of the following:
as a general rule, a calculation method, as described in point 2.2.3, and supplemented if necessary by an experimental design method as described in point 2.2.4,
an experimental design method without calculation, as described in point 2.2.4, when the product of the maximum allowable pressure PS and the volume V is less than 6 000 bar·L or the product PS·DN less than 3 000 bar.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2014/68/annex/I/division/1/division/n6/division/2.2/division/2.2.2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-68/annex-I/division-1/division-n6/division-2.2/division-2.2.2
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