This document is applicable to all types of fluid heating solar collectors. This European Standard specifies performance requirements for fluid heating solar collectors with respect to durability@ reliability@ safety and thermal performance. This European Standard includes provisions for the assessment and verification of constancy of performance to these requirements. This document deals with the collector module and not with assemblies. This document is not applicable to those devices in which a thermal storage unit is an integral part to such an extent that the collection process cannot be separated from the storage process for making the collector thermal performance measurements.