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EN 40 is not one standard. It is a series of nine documents, and a supplier who says “we comply with EN 40” has not yet told you anything. Compliance with part 5 says the steel column is built correctly. It says nothing about whether anyone verified that the column survives the wind at your site – that is part 3-1 and part 3-3, and they are where tenders are won and lost.

Artay Lighting has cast aluminium in its own die-cast foundry in Istanbul since 1999, exports to more than 33 countries, and is certified to TSE under TS EN 40 for lighting columns. This page sets out what each part of the series actually does, which part carries CE marking, what EN 40 deliberately leaves to other standards, and how the series is adopted across the markets we ship to.

What are the parts of EN 40, and what does each one do?

The series as currently published runs to part 7. There is no part 8 or 9.

Read that table once and the structure becomes obvious. Parts 1 and 2 are common ground. Part 3 in its three sub-parts is the engineering. Parts 4 to 7 are one per material. A complete specification therefore names at least three documents: the material part, part 3-1 for the loads, and whichever of 3-2 or 3-3 will be used to verify them.

Which part decides whether the pole survives the wind?

Part 3-1 establishes the characteristic loads – what the wind, the luminaire and the bracket actually do to the column at your site. Then one of two things has to happen. Under EN 40-3-2 a physical column is loaded until it fails, and the result validates the design. Under EN 40-3-3 the same design is verified by calculation.

The practical difference is scale. A test proves one configuration: one height, one bracket, one luminaire weight and windage. A project with 8, 10 and 12 m columns, two arm lengths and two luminaire types is not three configurations, it is a dozen – and testing each is neither affordable nor necessary. Calculation under 3-3 covers the whole family from the same model.

So the question to ask a supplier is not “do you comply with EN 40”. It is: can you produce a calculation to EN 40-3-3, at the reference wind velocity for this site, for this exact combination of height, bracket and luminaire? A supplier who answers with a generic type-test certificate for a different configuration has answered a different question. This matters most where the design wind is high — the Croatian coast under the bura, or an Iraqi tender stating 140 km/h.

Which part carries CE marking?

EN 40-5. It was prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and EFTA, and it carries the Annex ZA that establishes CE marking and labelling for steel lighting columns. A steel column placed on an EU market needs the CE mark and a Declaration of Performance.

The regulation behind that changed recently and it is worth knowing where the ground is. Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 took effect on 8 January 2026 and repealed Regulation (EU) 305/2011; harmonised standards listed under the 2011 regulation and in force on that date remain valid until the Commission withdraws them, with provisions of the old regime reported to run as far as 2040. In short, the transition is long and EN 40-5 has not stopped being the reference. We report this from a legal briefing rather than from the regulation’s transitional articles, so confirm the position for a specific placing-on-the-market date if it carries commercial weight.

One trap worth naming. A CE mark on the luminaire is not a CE mark on the column, and a certificate covering luminaires does not cover columns. The two arrive in the same delivery, are sold by the same supplier, and are governed by different legislation – the luminaire under electrical and EMC rules, the column as a construction product. Ask for the certificate together with its scope, and read the scope.

What does EN 40 deliberately not cover?

This is the half of the question most specifications get wrong: EN 40 is a structural standard for the column. It says nothing about light. If a tender cites EN 40 and stops, it has specified a pole that will stand up and not specified what it must illuminate. It also does not tell you which material to choose; for that comparison see aluminium or galvanized steel lighting poles, which explains what EN 40-5 and EN 40-6 each govern.

EN 12767 deserves a separate mention because it is the one most often absent and most consequential. It classifies how a column behaves in an impact – whether it is non-energy-absorbing, low or high energy absorbing, and what the occupant-safety class is. On a road where columns sit inside the clear zone, that classification is a safety decision rather than a preference, and it also changes the column: a passively safe column is a different product, not the same product with a note added.

Is EN 40 the standard everywhere we ship?

No, and assuming so is how bids get rejected. Across the eight export markets we looked at in detail, the picture divides three ways.

The lesson for a bid is short. In the EU and the Western Balkans, quote the national designation, not the bare EN number. In the Gulf and Iraq, offer EN 40 as an equivalence and expect to have it approved rather than assumed.

What should a tender clause actually say?

Something close to this, with the bracketed values filled in. It is short, and it closes every gap named above.

What does Artay’s own certification cover?

Manufacturing is certified to TSE under TS EN 40 for lighting columns, and to ISO 9001 for quality management. Luminaires are CE marked. TS EN 40 is the Turkish adoption of the EN 40 series, which is why the wording is worth quoting exactly rather than paraphrasing: the value of a certificate is its scope, not its existence.

In practice we supply hot-dip galvanized steel poles to EN ISO 1461 up to 12 m, verified by calculation under EN 40-3-3 at the wind velocity a project states; and cast aluminium poles, bollards and luminaire housings from our own foundry in Başakşehir, Istanbul, in EN AC-46000 (AlSi9Cu3) alloy with chromate pre-treatment before electrostatic powder coating. We do not make high-mast poles, and we buy in extruded aluminium profile rather than extruding it ourselves, as most of this market does.

Send a tender specification, a drawing or a written requirement to info@artaylighting.com and we will return a technical drawing, a wind-load calculation at your stated velocity, and a delivery date.

Related guides

• Street lighting pole types – the four families, and how a galvanized steel pole is made, step by step.
• Lighting pole materials – galvanized steel, cast aluminium and extruded profile compared.
• Coastal lighting poles – ISO 12944 categories, chloride, fixings and cable entry.
• What drives the cost of a lighting pole – where the money goes, and why unit prices are not published.
• OEM and private label manufacturing – tooling cost, minimum order and lead times in writing.
• Lighting pole standards by country — the eight export markets side by side: what each tender cites, where it is published and what crosses the border.

Moldova is the only market in this series where the energy regulator itself names the EN 40 series, part by part. ANRE, the National Agency for Energy Regulation, sets out norms for the arrangement of public lighting networks, and Section 3, Article 48 of that document lists SM SR EN 40-1, 40-2, 40-3-1, 40-3-2, 40-3-3, 40-4, 40-5, 40-6 and 40-7 as the standards a public lighting installation works to. A specifier in Chișinău is not being asked to translate a European standard into a local requirement – the regulator has already done it.

Artay Lighting has cast aluminium in its own die-cast foundry in Istanbul since 1999 and exports to more than 33 countries. This page sets out what those designations are, what we could and could not confirm about them, how the free trade agreement works after the 2026 origin changes, and what a 64-degree annual temperature range does to a pole.

Which standards does a Moldovan public lighting project work to?

The designations carry the SM SR EN prefix, which itself tells you something: the adoption route runs through the Romanian version of the European standard rather than a direct translation, which is unsurprising given the shared language.

Two honest caveats. The ANRE document we read sits in the regulator’s consultation area and its approval line is still blank, so we could not confirm that it has been approved and published in the Monitorul Oficial. And the catalogue of the Institute for Standardization of Moldova was unavailable when we checked, so we could not independently confirm the edition year of each part. What is safe to say is that Moldova’s energy regulator specifies the EN 40 series by SM SR EN designation; what is not safe is to quote an edition year without checking it. ISM has been a CEN-CENELEC Affiliate since 1 January 2023, which is the direction of travel.

On the construction-products side, Government Decision No. 913/2016 approves a technical regulation setting minimum requirements for commercialising construction products. We could not establish from the primary text whether it transposes the EU Construction Products Regulation, whether it requires CE marking or a national mark, or whether lighting columns fall within its scope – so ask the contracting authority rather than assuming that a CE mark and a Declaration of Performance settle the question.

What changed for origin in January 2026?

The Türkiye-Moldova Free Trade Agreement was signed in Chișinău on 11 September 2014 and entered into force on 1 November 2016. Türkiye eliminated its duties on entry into force; Moldova did the same except for goods listed in Annex II, whose duties were phased out by 1 November 2020. That phase-out is complete, so industrial goods now move without duty in both directions.

The recent change is on origin rather than tariff. Moldova’s parliament ratified amendments applying the revised Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention rules of origin, adopted in 2025 and in force from 1 January 2026. Moldova acceded to the PEM Convention in 2015, and the Convention now has 25 contracting parties. In practice the revised rules let a manufacturer use materials of Turkish origin and benefit from cumulation across the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean area – which matters for a pole whose casting is Turkish and whose electrical components come from the EU. We did not confirm the specific proof-of-origin form from the agreement text; ask the forwarder to name it rather than assuming.

What does a 64-degree temperature range do to a pole?

Moldova’s National Climate Change Adaptation Programme, using State Hydrometeorological Service data, records an absolute maximum of +39.0 °C in 2017 and an absolute minimum of −24.6 °C in 2015, with annual average temperatures between 10.6 and 12.7 °C over 2015 to 2022. That is a spread of roughly 64 kelvin between recorded extremes – a genuinely continental climate, and a different design problem from the Mediterranean or the Gulf.

Three consequences are worth writing into a specification. Thermal movement: steel expands and contracts measurably over that range, and the joint that matters is where dissimilar materials meet – a cast aluminium base or luminaire housing on a steel shaft moves at roughly twice the rate of the steel, so the fixing detail has to accommodate it rather than fight it. Freeze-thaw at the base: water that enters a shaft in autumn and freezes in January expands, and a pole with no drain at the base is a container. Gasket and seal selection: an elastomer chosen for a temperate climate hardens near −25 °C, and a seal that has gone hard is a seal that lets water in during the spring thaw.

None of the three is expensive at the drawing stage. All three are expensive at year eight.

How are Moldovan lighting tenders published?

Through MTender at mtender.gov.md, the automated public procurement system operated by the Ministry of Finance. The interface is available in Romanian, English and Russian, and four accredited private platforms connect to it. Tender documents are in Romanian.

What can Artay supply for a Moldovan project?

Hot-dip galvanized steel poles to EN ISO 1461, up to 12 m, fabricated to the EN 40 series and verified by calculation under EN 40-3-3 – which is the part ANRE’s norms name, and the one that matters when a project has several heights and arm configurations. Alongside them, cast aluminium poles, bollards and luminaire housings from our own foundry in Başakşehir, Istanbul, in EN AC-46000 (AlSi9Cu3) alloy with chromate pre-treatment before electrostatic powder coating. Luminaires are CE marked, and manufacturing is certified to TSE under TS EN 40 for lighting columns and to ISO 9001 for quality management. Ask for the certificate together with its scope – a certificate covering luminaires does not cover columns.

We do not make high-mast poles, and we buy in extruded aluminium profile rather than extruding it ourselves, as most of this market does. What we do make from nothing is a form: a municipality can have a pole of its own, carrying its own emblem in the base. A new die is cut in our own tool shop in four to six weeks and a first delivery follows seven to nine weeks after drawing approval; repeat orders on that die ship in three weeks. Changing only height, diameter, wall thickness, arm length or RAL colour needs no die at all and carries no minimum order.

Send a drawing, a tender specification or a written requirement to info@artaylighting.com and we will return a technical drawing, a wind-load calculation and a delivery date.

Related guides

• Street lighting pole types – the four families, and how a galvanized steel pole is made.
• Lighting poles for Serbia – another continental market, with a domestic mark alongside CE.
• Lighting pole materials – galvanized steel, cast aluminium and extruded profile compared.
• What drives the cost of a lighting pole – where the money goes, and why unit prices are not published.
• OEM and private label manufacturing – tooling cost, minimum order and lead times in writing.
• Lighting pole standards by country — the eight export markets side by side: what each tender cites, where it is published and what crosses the border.

Kosovo recognises CE marking in its own law, but Turkish industrial goods do not yet enter duty free. Most exporters assume the reverse. Law No. 06/L-033 on Construction Products, Article 9(2), provides that the CE marking is affixed to construction products for which the manufacturer has drawn up a Declaration of Performance by applying a harmonised European Standard or European Assessment Document. Meanwhile the Türkiye-Kosovo Free Trade Agreement, in force since 1 September 2019, phases Kosovo’s elimination of duties on listed industrial goods over nine years – so the tariff line still has to be checked rather than assumed.

Artay Lighting has cast aluminium in its own die-cast foundry in Istanbul since 1999 and exports to more than 33 countries. This page sets out what is established in Kosovo, what we could not verify, and what that means for a bid.

How does conformity work in Kosovo?

Two marks exist side by side, and the law separates them cleanly. Under Article 9(2) of Law No. 06/L-033, CE marking applies where the product is covered by a harmonised European Standard or a European Assessment Document and the manufacturer has drawn up a Declaration of Performance. Under Article 10(2), the Kosovo conformity marking may only be affixed where a harmonised Kosovo Standard or a Kosovo Assessment Document is applied. Article 5(1) requires a Declaration of Performance wherever a product is covered by a Kosovo or European harmonised standard.

Because EN 40-5 is a harmonised European standard, a CE-marked steel lighting column with a Declaration of Performance sits squarely inside the route Article 9(2) describes. That is the cleanest conformity position of the four Balkan markets in this series – cleaner than Serbia, where a domestic mark runs in parallel for products under national specifications.

Labelling has to be in Kosovo’s two official languages, Albanian and Serbian; additional languages are permitted.

Which standards does Kosovo publish, and what could we not confirm?

The standards body is AKS, the Kosovo Agency for Standardization, within the Ministry of Industry, Entrepreneurship and Trade. European standards are adopted under the SK EN prefix, and ISO-derived European standards under SK EN ISO.

Here we have to be straight about a limit. We could not confirm that SK EN 40, SK EN 13201 or SK EN ISO 1461 exist. At the time of writing the AKS catalogue is unavailable – every address under its domain redirects to a government portal showing an update notice – so the designations could not be checked against a live source. We are not going to invent a standard number. If a Kosovo tender asks for a national designation for lighting columns, ask the contracting authority to supply it, and quote EN 40 with CE marking under Article 9(2) in the meantime.

We also could not confirm whether AKS holds CEN-CENELEC affiliate or companion status, so the argument that European standards are automatically adopted – which does hold for Serbia as a full CEN member – cannot be extended to Kosovo.

What does the free trade agreement actually give you, and when?

The Türkiye-Kosovo Free Trade Agreement was signed in Ankara on 27 September 2013 and entered into force on 1 September 2019. Kosovo eliminates customs duties on the industrial goods listed in Annex II.2 over nine years from entry into force – a schedule running to roughly 2028, not an immediate zero. Which staging category applies to a lighting column depends on its tariff heading, and we did not verify that line.

The practical instruction is therefore short: do not quote a Kosovo project on the assumption of duty-free entry. Ask the customs broker for the current rate against the specific heading and the FTA staging category, in writing, before the price is fixed. This is the single most common costly assumption in this market, and it is entirely avoidable.

Rules of origin sit in Annex II.1. We could not confirm which proof-of-origin form the agreement uses, so have the forwarder name it against that annex rather than defaulting to A.TR, which is a customs-union instrument and does not apply here. CEFTA is likewise not the route from Türkiye – Kosovo participates in CEFTA 2006, but Türkiye is not a party, so CEFTA governs onward regional movement rather than the arriving shipment.

How are Kosovo lighting tenders published?

Through e-Prokurimi at e-prokurimi.rks-gov.net, operated by the Regulatory Commission for Public Procurement under Public Procurement Law No. 04/L-042. The platform interface is available in Albanian, Serbian and English, which is unusually accessible for this region; tender documents themselves are in practice primarily Albanian, sometimes Serbian.

What can Artay supply for a Kosovo project?

Hot-dip galvanized steel poles to EN ISO 1461, up to 12 m, fabricated to the EN 40 series and verified by calculation under EN 40-3-3; and cast aluminium poles, bollards and luminaire housings from our own foundry in Başakşehir, Istanbul, in EN AC-46000 (AlSi9Cu3) alloy with chromate pre-treatment before electrostatic powder coating. Luminaires are CE marked, and manufacturing is certified to TSE under TS EN 40 for lighting columns and to ISO 9001 for quality management. Ask for the certificate together with its scope – a certificate covering luminaires does not cover columns.

Kosovo is an inland, continental market, so the coating question is not a coastal one. Where de-icing salt is used on a road, the lowest metre of a pole and its base flange see chloride in traffic spray and stay damp longest; a flange plate on a raised plinth that drains does most of the work. The mechanism is the same one set out in the coastal lighting poles guide, in a different setting.

We do not make high-mast poles, and we buy in extruded aluminium profile rather than extruding it ourselves, as most of this market does. What we do make from nothing is a form: a municipality can have a pole of its own, carrying its own emblem in the base. A new die is cut in our own tool shop in four to six weeks and a first delivery follows seven to nine weeks after drawing approval; repeat orders on that die ship in three weeks. Changing only height, diameter, wall thickness, arm length or RAL colour needs no die at all and carries no minimum order.

Send a drawing, a tender specification or a written requirement to info@artaylighting.com and we will return a technical drawing, a wind-load calculation and a delivery date.

Related guides

• Lighting poles for Serbia – SRPS EN designations, and a domestic mark running alongside CE.
• Street lighting pole types – the four families, and how a galvanized steel pole is made.
• What drives the cost of a lighting pole – where the money goes, and why unit prices are not published.
• Lighting pole materials – galvanized steel, cast aluminium and extruded profile compared.
• OEM and private label manufacturing – tooling cost, minimum order and lead times in writing.
• Lighting pole standards by country — the eight export markets side by side: what each tender cites, where it is published and what crosses the border.

Serbia has adopted the EN 40 series and recognises CE marking, but CE is not the only mark in play there. The Institute for Standardization of Serbia has been a full CEN and CENELEC member since 1 January 2017, and SRPS EN 40-5:2016 – “Stubovi za osvetljenje – Deo 5: Zahtevi za stubove za osvetljenje od čelika”, adopting EN 40-5:2002 – is current and valid. Alongside it Serbia operates its own conformity mark, the srpski znak usaglašenosti, three capital A’s joined in an equilateral triangle. Which of the two applies to an imported steel column is a question to settle before the order, not at the border.

Artay Lighting has cast aluminium in its own die-cast foundry in Istanbul since 1999 and exports to more than 33 countries. This page sets out which Serbian standards apply, how conformity works outside the EU, and what the free trade agreement with Türkiye actually covers.

Which Serbian standards apply to a lighting column?

European standards carry the SRPS EN prefix. Serbia’s full CEN and CENELEC membership since 2017 carries an obligation: a published European Standard must be given the status of a national standard, and conflicting national standards withdrawn. That is why the EN 40 series appears in the Serbian catalogue rather than a locally written equivalent.

We could not individually locate SRPS EN 40-2 or 40-3-3, so if a tender names either, ask for the designation and year. The galvanizing standard is worth checking against the same test: SRPS EN ISO 1461:2022 is current and replaced the 2013 edition, and a galvanizing declaration citing 2013 is out of date.

Does CE marking work in Serbia?

Serbia is not in the EU, so the Construction Products Regulation does not apply directly. What governs is the Serbian Zakon o građevinskim proizvodima, the Law on Construction Products, Official Gazette RS No. 83/2018. Article 11(6) provides that the CE mark is affixed to a construction product whose conformity with a harmonised standard or a European Technical Assessment has been confirmed, and a Declaration of Performance in Serbian must accompany it.

Running in parallel is the domestic mark – three capital A’s in an equilateral triangle – required for products governed by Serbian technical specifications. We could not establish from primary sources exactly how the two divide for an imported steel lighting column specifically, and we are not going to publish a categorical claim that CE alone is sufficient in Serbia. Put the question to the contracting authority in writing, and get the answer in writing. It is a five-minute question that occasionally costs a project a month.

One thing that is clear: the Declaration of Performance has to be in Serbian. That is a translation job with a deadline, not a formality to handle after shipment.

What does the free trade agreement cover?

The Türkiye-Serbia Free Trade Agreement was signed on 1 June 2009 and entered into force on 1 September 2010. Both parties eliminated customs duties on imports of all industrial products, so a lighting column enters at zero duty. Rules of origin sit in Protocol II of the agreement; revised protocols signed in January 2018 entered into force on 1 June 2019. We did not confirm from the agreement text which proof-of-origin form applies, so ask your forwarder to name it against Protocol II rather than assuming – what we can say is that A.TR does not apply, because A.TR is an instrument of the EU customs union and Serbia is not in it.

CEFTA is also not the answer, however often it comes up. Serbia is a CEFTA party, but Türkiye is not, so CEFTA governs Serbia’s trade with its regional neighbours rather than anything arriving from Istanbul. Where it does matter is onward movement: goods that have entered Serbia can move within the CEFTA area under its own rules.

What does an inland continental site change?

Serbia is the first market in this series with no coastline, and that changes the specification in both directions. Chloride from sea spray is not the driver, so a C5 coastal coating system is protection the project is paying for and does not need. ISO 12944-2’s own definitions place temperate atmospheres with low pollution at C2 and urban and industrial atmospheres with moderate sulfur dioxide at C3 – and an industrial corridor or a city centre is a different case from a rural road.

What replaces sea spray is the winter road. Where de-icing salt is used, a pole standing at the edge of a carriageway receives chloride in spray from passing traffic, concentrated in the lowest metre of the shaft and at the base flange – exactly the zone that also collects grit and never dries quickly. No standard we could source ties de-icing salt to a corrosivity category, so this is engineering judgment rather than a citation; but the practical answer is well established, and it is to treat the base zone of a road-side pole as a more aggressive environment than the top of the same pole. A flange plate on a raised plinth that drains, rather than a column planted at pavement level, does most of the work.

How are Serbian lighting tenders published?

Through the Portal javnih nabavki, the Public Procurement Portal at jnportal.ujn.gov.rs, operated by the Public Procurement Office. Documents are in Serbian, which – together with the Serbian-language Declaration of Performance – means a bid needs Serbian-language technical documentation rather than an English data sheet with a covering letter.

What can Artay supply for a Serbian project?

Hot-dip galvanized steel poles to EN ISO 1461, up to 12 m, fabricated to the EN 40 series and verified by calculation under EN 40-3-3; and cast aluminium poles, bollards and luminaire housings from our own foundry in Başakşehir, Istanbul, in EN AC-46000 (AlSi9Cu3) alloy with chromate pre-treatment before electrostatic powder coating. Luminaires are CE marked, and manufacturing is certified to TSE under TS EN 40 for lighting columns and to ISO 9001 for quality management. Ask for the certificate together with its scope – a certificate covering luminaires does not cover columns.

We do not make high-mast poles, and we buy in extruded aluminium profile rather than extruding it ourselves, as most of this market does. What we do make from nothing is a form: because the aluminium is cast rather than fabricated, a municipality can have a pole of its own, carrying its own emblem in the base. A new die is cut in our own tool shop in four to six weeks and a first delivery follows seven to nine weeks after drawing approval; repeat orders on that die ship in three weeks. Changing only height, diameter, wall thickness, arm length or RAL colour needs no die at all and carries no minimum order.

Send a drawing, a tender specification or a written requirement to info@artaylighting.com and we will return a technical drawing, a wind-load calculation and a delivery date.

Related guides

• Street lighting pole types – the four families, and how a galvanized steel pole is made.
• Lighting pole materials – galvanized steel, cast aluminium and extruded profile compared.
• Lighting poles for Croatia – the neighbouring EU market, and how CE marking works there instead.
• Coastal lighting poles – the chloride mechanism, which also explains the de-icing case.
• What drives the cost of a lighting pole – where the money goes, and why unit prices are not published.
• Lighting poles for Kosovo – CE recognised in law, but duty on industrial goods is still being phased out.
• Lighting poles for Moldova – the EN 40 series named by the energy regulator, and a 64-degree annual range.
• Lighting pole standards by country — the eight export markets side by side: what each tender cites, where it is published and what crosses the border.

Croatia is the one market where you can name the exact date CE marking became mandatory for a steel lighting column: 1 February 2005. The Croatian official gazette, Narodne novine 58/2016, publishes the list of harmonised standards for construction products, and its Annex 1 entry for HRN EN 40-5:2008, “Rasvjetni stupovi – 5. dio: Zahtjevi za čelične rasvjetne stupove”, gives an application date of 1 February 2003 and an end of coexistence period of 1 February 2005. From that date a steel lighting column placed on the Croatian market needs CE marking and a Declaration of Performance. There is no ambiguity to negotiate.

Artay Lighting has cast aluminium in its own die-cast foundry in Istanbul since 1999 and exports to more than 33 countries. This page sets out which Croatian standards apply and in which edition, what the bura does to a design wind calculation, and how the border and the tender portal work.

Which Croatian standards apply, and in which edition?

The standards body is HZN, the Croatian Standards Institute, and European standards carry the HRN EN prefix. The editions matter here more than in most markets, because a supplier quoting a superseded edition is quoting a withdrawn document.

We did not individually confirm HRN EN 40-2, 40-3-3 or 40-6 in the repository, so if a tender names one of those, ask for the designation and year rather than assuming the adoption year matches the others.

What does the bura do to the design wind?

More than anything else on this page. The bura is a downslope wind that falls off the Dinaric range onto the Adriatic coast in gusts rather than in a steady stream, and it is the reason a coastal Croatian design wind velocity has nothing in common with an inland European one. Gusts of 248 km/h at Krk and 250.2 km/h at Makarska on 26 January 1996 are widely reported; we could not confirm those readings against the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service, so treat them as an indication of scale rather than as a design figure.

The design figure is the one that belongs in the tender: the reference wind velocity for the site, taken from the national annex, fed into EN 40-3-1 for characteristic loads and verified under EN 40-3-3 by calculation. Two consequences follow for anyone specifying on the coast. Gust loading rather than mean wind speed drives the design, so a pole selected from a catalogue table for “coastal” use without a site calculation is a guess. And the bura loads the bracket and the luminaire as much as the shaft, which is where an oversized decorative luminaire on a slender arm becomes the weak point rather than the column.

Ask for the calculation at the site velocity. A supplier who cannot produce one at 45 or 50 m/s is telling you something.

What about corrosion on the Adriatic?

ISO 12944-2 classifies corrosivity by category, and the definitions are the honest way to use them: C3 covers coastal areas with low salinity, C4 industrial areas and coastal areas with moderate salinity, C5 coastal areas with high salinity together with high humidity and aggressive atmosphere, and CX offshore areas and subtropical atmospheres. No standard assigns a category to a named stretch of coast; the specification writer names it and the coating system follows.

What is particular to the Adriatic is that the bura carries sea spray inland, so a site that looks sheltered on a map can sit in the same chloride regime as the shoreline. The mechanism, and what it means for fixings, base details and the access door, is set out in the coastal lighting poles guide.

How do goods and tenders move?

Croatia joined the EU in July 2013 and withdrew from CEFTA on accession, so CEFTA is not the framework for anything arriving there. What applies is the EU-Türkiye Customs Union, resting on Association Council Decision 1/95 and in force since 1 July 1996, covering industrial products. Free circulation is evidenced by the A.TR movement certificate – which proves free circulation, not origin, and which since 8 July 2024 may be issued electronically with a QR code and no wet-ink signature.

Tenders are published through EOJN, the Electronic Public Procurement Classifieds, operated within the Official Gazette at eojn.nn.hr. The Public Procurement Act makes it the mandatory domestic publication channel: Article 32(1) requires contracting authorities to publish contract notices there. Documents are in Croatian, and the notice itself states the language a tender must be drawn up in – so read that clause rather than assuming.

What can Artay supply for a Croatian project?

Hot-dip galvanized steel poles to EN ISO 1461, up to 12 m, fabricated to the EN 40 series and verified by calculation under EN 40-3-3 at the site wind velocity; and cast aluminium poles, bollards and luminaire housings from our own foundry in Başakşehir, Istanbul, in EN AC-46000 (AlSi9Cu3) alloy with chromate pre-treatment before electrostatic powder coating. Luminaires are CE marked, and manufacturing is certified to TSE under TS EN 40 for lighting columns and to ISO 9001 for quality management. Ask for the certificate together with its scope – a certificate covering luminaires does not cover columns.

We do not make high-mast poles, and we buy in extruded aluminium profile rather than extruding it ourselves, as most of this market does. What we do make from nothing is a form: because the aluminium is cast rather than fabricated, a historic old town or a marina can have a pole of its own rather than a catalogue one. A new die is cut in our own tool shop in four to six weeks and a first delivery follows seven to nine weeks after drawing approval; repeat orders on that die ship in three weeks. Changing only height, diameter, wall thickness, arm length or RAL colour needs no die at all and carries no minimum order.

Send a drawing, a tender specification or a written requirement to info@artaylighting.com and we will return a technical drawing, a wind-load calculation at your stated velocity, and a delivery date.

Related guides

• Coastal lighting poles – chloride, corrosivity categories, fixings and cable entry.
• Lighting poles for Greece – the other EU market on this coast, and the specification its tenders cite.
• Street lighting pole types – the four families, and how a galvanized steel pole is made.
• Lighting pole materials – galvanized steel, cast aluminium and extruded profile compared.
• OEM and private label manufacturing – tooling cost, minimum order and lead times in writing.
• Lighting poles for Serbia – SRPS EN designations, CE alongside the domestic 3A mark, and a Serbian-language Declaration of Performance.
• Lighting poles for Kosovo – CE recognised in law, but duty on industrial goods is still being phased out.
• The EN 40 series explained – which part does what, which one carries CE marking, and what EN 40 leaves to other standards.
• Lighting pole standards by country — the eight export markets side by side: what each tender cites, where it is published and what crosses the border.

A Greek tender does not usually cite EN 40 directly – it cites a Greek technical specification that cites nine parts of EN 40. The document is ELOT TP 1501-05-07-02-00:2009, “Road lighting columns and luminaires”, published in the Government Gazette on 23 December 2009 under ICS 93.080.40. Its normative references list ELOT EN 40-1, 40-2, 40-3-1, 40-3-2, 40-3-3, 40-5, 40-6, 40-7 and 40-9, together with ELOT EN ISO 1461 for hot-dip galvanizing. A supplier who can name that specification is speaking the language the tender was written in.

Artay Lighting has cast aluminium in its own die-cast foundry in Istanbul since 1999 and exports to more than 33 countries. This page sets out which document a Greek project cites, what CE marking requires, how the customs union with Türkiye actually works at the border, and what changes on an island.

Which document does a Greek tender actually cite?

ELOT TP 1501-05-07-02-00:2009 is a Greek national technical specification, issued by the Hellenic Organization for Standardization, and it is the layer between the European standard and the tender document. Rather than restating EN 40, it adopts it by reference – which is why a bid that answers EN 40-5 alone can still be incomplete against a Greek specification that also expects 40-3-1 and 40-3-3 to have been satisfied.

The practical reading is that EN 40-3-3, verification by calculation, is where most of the work sits. A steel column can be verified by test or by calculation; on a project with several heights and arm configurations, calculation is the only route that scales. Ask for the calculation, at the wind velocity the project states, rather than for a generic type-test certificate.

Is CE marking required, and under which regulation?

Greece is an EU Member State, so the Construction Products Regulation applies directly, and EN 40-5 is a harmonised standard – it was prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and EFTA, and it carries the Annex ZA that establishes CE marking and labelling. A steel lighting column placed on the Greek market therefore needs CE marking and a Declaration of Performance.

The regulation behind it changed recently, and it is worth knowing where the ground currently is. Regulation (EU) 2024/3110 took effect on 8 January 2026 and repealed Regulation (EU) 305/2011 on that date; harmonised standards listed under the 2011 regulation and in force on 8 January 2026 remain valid until withdrawn by the Commission, with provisions of the old regime reported to run as far as 2040. In other words the transition is long and EN 40-5 has not stopped being the reference. We are reporting this from a legal briefing rather than from the regulation’s transitional articles, so confirm the position for the specific placing-on-the-market date if it matters commercially.

What does the customs union actually do at the border?

The EU-Türkiye Customs Union rests on Association Council Decision 1/95 of 22 December 1995 and has been in force since 1 July 1996. Its scope covers products other than agricultural products and coal and steel products – that is, industrial products, which is where a lighting column sits. Free circulation is evidenced by the A.TR movement certificate.

Two points people get wrong. First, A.TR is not a certificate of origin. It proves that goods are in free circulation within the customs union; it says nothing about where they were made. Where origin matters – for a public tender’s origin rules, for example – it has to be evidenced separately. Second, the paperwork has changed: since 8 July 2024 the EU and Türkiye accept A.TR certificates issued electronically, bearing a QR code and without a wet-ink signature. If a freight forwarder is still insisting on a stamped paper original, they are working from an old procedure.

What changes on an island?

Three things, and only one of them is corrosion. ISO 12944-2 classifies corrosivity by category – C3 covers coastal areas with low salinity, C4 coastal areas with moderate salinity, C5 coastal areas with high salinity, and CX offshore areas and subtropical atmospheres. No standard assigns a category to a named island; the specification writer names it and the coating system follows. What the coating has to survive, and how fixings, base details and cable entry behave in chloride, is set out in the coastal lighting poles guide.

The other two are logistical and they change the design rather than the finish. Delivery is by ferry, so pole length, packing and lifting arrangements have to suit a ro-ro deck and whatever crane exists at the other end – which is an argument for cast aluminium below 6 m, where a pole can be handled without heavy plant. And maintenance access is expensive: a replacement part that takes three weeks and a ferry booking is a different proposition from one that takes a van. That is a reason to specify a bolted flange base rather than a root-mounted pole, so a damaged column can be swapped rather than excavated.

How are Greek lighting tenders published?

Through two systems. ESIDIS, the National Electronic Public Procurement System, at portal.eprocurement.gov.gr, is where the procedure runs. KIMDIS, the Central Electronic Registry of Public Contracts, is the publication registry and is searchable without a login through gov.gr. Documents are in Greek.

That last point is worth taking seriously rather than treating as an inconvenience. Greek specifiers search and tender in Greek, and a supplier whose entire technical documentation exists only in English is invisible at the stage where a shortlist is drawn up – not at the stage where a bid is evaluated.

What can Artay supply for a Greek project?

Hot-dip galvanized steel poles to EN ISO 1461, up to 12 m, fabricated to the EN 40 series and verified by calculation under EN 40-3-3 at the wind velocity the project states; and cast aluminium poles, bollards and luminaire housings from our own foundry in Başakşehir, Istanbul, in EN AC-46000 (AlSi9Cu3) alloy with chromate pre-treatment before electrostatic powder coating. Luminaires are CE marked, and manufacturing is certified to TSE under TS EN 40 for lighting columns and to ISO 9001 for quality management. Ask for the certificate together with its scope – a certificate covering luminaires does not cover columns, and the two are routinely confused in tender documents.

We do not make high-mast poles, and we buy in extruded aluminium profile rather than extruding it ourselves, as most of this market does. What we do make from nothing is a form: because the aluminium is cast rather than fabricated, a harbour front or a restored square can have a pole of its own. A new die is cut in our own tool shop in four to six weeks and a first delivery follows seven to nine weeks after drawing approval; repeat orders on that die ship in three weeks. Changing only height, diameter, wall thickness, arm length or RAL colour needs no die at all and carries no minimum order.

Our decorative range is also, unusually, named after the archaeological sites of western Anatolia – Ephesus, Miletus, Aphrodisias, Xanthos, Sardis – which are the same Hellenistic and Roman settlements a Greek specifier already knows. The models are listed in the ancient cities collection.

Send a drawing, a tender specification or a written requirement to info@artaylighting.com and we will return a technical drawing, a wind-load calculation and a delivery date.

Related guides

• Coastal lighting poles – chloride, corrosivity categories, fixings and cable entry.
• Ancient cities collection – fifty models named after ancient Anatolian settlements.
• Street lighting pole types – the four families, and how a galvanized steel pole is made.
• Lighting poles for Georgia – zero duty, diagonal cumulation and a very wet coast.
• OEM and private label manufacturing – tooling cost, minimum order and lead times in writing.
• Lighting poles for Croatia – HRN EN editions, the exact date CE marking became mandatory, and designing for the bura.
• The EN 40 series explained – which part does what, which one carries CE marking, and what EN 40 leaves to other standards.
• Lighting pole standards by country — the eight export markets side by side: what each tender cites, where it is published and what crosses the border.