Electrical Standards at International level (IEC) and at

European level (CENELEC)

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International and European Process

Standard Development and Spreading

Electrotechnical

and electricity

Other sectors,

Telecom

Document

flow

UTI

IEC 61180 : 1992

UTI IEC 61180 : 1992

EN 61180 : 1994

AENOR, ASRO, BDS,

BSI, CEB, CEI, CYS,

DKE, SESKO, UTE …..

Relevant

national

bodies…

Endorsed National

Stds

Coverage of the electrotechnical

domain (1/2)

• Covered in IEC by 176 Technical Committees and

Subcommittees

• Covered in CENELEC by 75 Technical

Committees and Subcommittees (… 169 SRs : Committees and Subcommittees (… 169 SRs :

“non activated TCs or SCs”)

• In IEC 13 000 experts from 82 countries active

members

• In CENELEC 9 800 experts from 33 countries

Coverage of the electrotechnical domain

(2/2)

• IEC portfolio ~7000 standards

• CLC portfolio ~6700 standards

– ~68% are identical to the IEC standards

– ~7% are based upon the IEC standards– ~7% are based upon the IEC standards

– ~25% are purely European home-grown stds without link

to the IEC stds

• ~75% of the European standards are identical to

or based upon IEC standards

• ~26% of EN are harmonized

TCs and SCs … the access to

technical knowledge …

• Out of the 174 TCs and SCs about 40 are directly

relevant for energy production and transport in

IEC

• To get more go to www.iec.ch for IEC

www.cenelec.eu and look for “List of Technical

Committees”

• Contact IEC/CO or CCMC

• Contact TC or SC Secretaries … they are the ones

aware of all the technical discussions and issues

Technical relevant hot spots in

IEC …

• Smart Grids (Several TCs/SCs involved and more

than 100 stds … already identified !!!!)

• Functional safety (Mainly TC65 with 61508)• Functional safety (Mainly TC65 with 61508)

• Smart electrification (Comprehensive white

paper)

• Renewable energies (4 TCs)

• EMC (TC77 and more … IEC 6100 series)

• To get more go to www.iec.ch

Technical relevant hot spots in

CENELEC …

• Smart Grids (Publication ”Standards for Smart

Grids”)

• Smart meterings

• Energy audits

• Nuclear energy

• To get more go Annual Report and Report on

Technical Activities available at www.cenelec.eu

How to understand and to approach

this very complex context (1/2)…

• We did something similar for nuclear energy in 2010-2012

• Definition of the need (which TC/SCs are relevant, which user needs are not covered by TC/SCs)TC/SCs)

• Analysis of the implementation of the relevant International stds in Europe (with or without modifications, extend of CMs if any) and the consequences

• Identification of the relevant European home grown standards, if any

How to understand this very

complex context (2/2) …

• Many actors involved, nobody has all the

information and collaboration is necessary

(users, CCMC, IEC/CO, TC/SCs Secretaries …)

• Objective a useful shared view of the context

and relevant recommendations to progress …

sort of roadmap

• Possible gradual and phased approach

• See the report on nuclear energy …

Standards in Russian language again

distributed by the IEC …

• The « official languages » in IEC and in CENELEC

• Issue of multiple different versions of a same

standard in Russian language developed locally

• New IEC webstore with some IEC standards

already available in Russian

• More IEC standards to be available in Russian

soon