Fireworks items are classified into categories. Where possible, the categorical belonging is characterized on each item and each packing.
F1 category: smaller fireworks, e.g. table fireworks, christmas crackers, sparklers, etc.
F2 category: New Year's Eve fireworks, e.g. rockets, volcanos, etc
F3 category: medium-sized fireworks, formerly called "garden fireworks"
F4 category: professional fireworks
If fireworks of different categories are combined to an assortment, the legal regulations for the item of the highest category count for the whole assortment.
T category: technical fireworks, pyrotechnic items for stage and theatre, e.g. bengal flames, flares, smoking bombs and powder, etc. Depending on their dangerousness, Items of the T category are divided into the T1 and T2 categories.
T1 category: fireworks for stage and theatre
T2 category: fireworks for stage and theatre
What can be purchased by whom?
Fireworks of the F1 category
can be purchased and used by persons at the minimum age of twelve years without any temporal limitation.
Fireworks of the F2 category
can only be bought during the statutory dates of sale by persons at the minimum age of 18 years, and shall exclusively be let off within the time between 31 December starting at midnight until 1 January at 12 p.m.
License holders in accordance with § 7 or § 27 or a certificate of competence in accordance with § 20 of Explosives Act can also use fireworks of the F2 category betwenn 2 January and 30 December, provided they are let off together with other pyrotechnic items.
Fireworks of the F3 category
delivery exclusively againt presentation of a license in accordance with § 7 or § 27 or a certificate of competence in accordance with § 20 of Explosives Act for the use of items of the F3 category.
Fireworks of the F4 category
delivery exclusively againt presentation of a license in accordance with § 7 or § 27 or a certificate of competence in accordance with § 20 of Explosives Act for the use of items of the F4 category.