In the Official Gazette n. 281 of 03.12.18 the D.M. of 23.11.2018 on Technical standards of fire prevention for commercial activities,
where there is a sale and exhibition of goods, with gross area of more than 400 square meters, which can be applied as an alternative
to the D.M. of 07/27/2010: this is an RTV combined with the Code.
The main news that we synthetically report are:
1: more than 5000 square meters of gross area of the entire activity, the evacuators are used according to the UNI standard (with barriers, air entrances, etc.).
2: EVAC is mandatory over 5,000 square meters and in other less frequent cases.
3: up to 1500 square meters with a single-storey building, the manual alarm is usually sufficient without automatic detection.
4: there are requirements for refrigerant gases for air conditioning (direct expansion) and for power refrigeration