In addition to EN 1295-1 this Technical Report gives additional guidance when compared with EN 1295-1 on the application of the nationally established methods of design declared by and used in CEN member countries at the time of preparation of this standard (se informative Annex A). This Technical Report is an important source of design expertise, but it cannot include all possible special cases, in which extensions or restrictions to the basic design methods may apply. Since in practice precise details of types of soil and installation conditions are not always available at the design stage, the choice of design assumptions is left to the judgement of the