EN 62311:2008

Assessment of electronic and electrical equipment related to human exposure restrictions for electromagnetic fields (0 Hz - 300 GHz)

Applies to electronic and electrical equipment for which no dedicated product- or product family standard regarding human exposure to electromagnetic fields applies. The frequency range covered is 0 Hz to 300 GHz. The object of this generic standard is to provide assessment methods and criteria to evaluate such equipment against basic restrictions or reference levels on exposure of the general public related to electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields and induced and contact current.

Bewertung von elektrischen und elektronischen Einrichtungen in Bezug auf Begrenzungen der Exposition von Personen in elektromagnetischen Feldern (0 Hz - 300 GHz)

Evaluation des équipements électroniques et électriques en relation avec les restrictions d'exposition humaine aux champs électromagnétiques (0 Hz - 300 GHz)

S'applique aux appareils électroniques et électriques auxquels aucune norme concernant l'exposition humaine aux champs électromagnétiques, dédiée à un produit ou à une famille de produits, ne s'applique. La plage de fréquences couverte va de 0 Hz à 300 GHz. L'objet de la présente norme générique est de fournir des méthodes et des critères d'évaluation pour démontrer que de tels appareils satisfont aux restrictions de base ou aux niveaux de référence pour l'exposition du public aux champs électriques, magnétiques et électromagnétiques, ainsi qu'aux courants induits et de contact.

Ocena elektronske in električne opreme glede omejevanja izpostavljenosti ljudi elektromagnetnim sevanjem (0 Hz - 300 GHz) (IEC 62311:2007, spremenjen)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 30-Jan-2008
• Withdrawal Date: 31-Dec-2010
• ICS: 97.030 - Domestic electrical appliances in general
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 106X - Electromagnetic fields in the human environment
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 106 - IEC_TC_106
• Parallel Committee: IEC/TC 106 - IEC_TC_106
• Current Stage: 9960 - Withdrawal effective - Withdrawal
• Start Date: 24-Jan-2023
• Completion Date: 24-Jan-2023
• Directive: 1999/5/EC - Directive 1999/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 1999 on radio equipment and telecommunications terminal equipment and the mutual recognition of their conformity
• Directive: 2006/95/EC - Directive 2006/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits (codified version)
• Directive: 2014/35/EU - Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
• Directive: 2014/53/EU - Directive 2014/53/EU of The European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC
• Directive: 73/23/EEC - Electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
• Ref Project: SIST EN 62311:2008 - Assessment of electronic and electrical equipment related to human exposure restrictions for electromagnetic fields (0 Hz - 300 GHz)

Relations

• Replaces: EN 50392:2004 - Generic standard to demonstrate the compliance of electronic and electrical apparatus with the basic restrictions related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz - 300 GHz)
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023
• Replaced By: EN IEC 62311:2020 - Assessment of electronic and electrical equipment related to human exposure restrictions for electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz)
• Effective Date: 27-Dec-2016

Standards Content (Sample)

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Assessment of electronic and electrical equipment related to human exposure
restrictions for electromagnetic fields (0 Hz - 300 GHz)
Bewertung von elektrischen und elektronischen Einrichtungen in Bezug auf
Begrenzungen der Exposition von Personen in elektromagnetischen Feldern (0 Hz - 300
GHz)
Evaluation des équipements électroniques et électriques en relation avec les restrictions
d'exposition humaine aux champs électromagnétiques (0 Hz - 300 GHz)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62311:2008
ICS:
13.280 Varstvo pred sevanjem Radiation protection
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 62311
NORME EUROPÉENNE
January 2008
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 97.030 Supersedes EN 50392:2004

English version
Assessment of electronic and electrical equipment
related to human exposure restrictions
for electromagnetic fields (0 Hz - 300 GHz)
(IEC 62311:2007, modified)
Evaluation des équipements  Bewertung von elektrischen
électroniques et électriques und elektronischen Einrichtungen
en relation avec les restrictions in Bezug auf Begrenzungen
d'exposition humaine der Exposition von Personen
aux champs électromagnétiques in elektromagnetischen Feldern
(0 Hz - 300 GHz) (0 Hz - 300 GHz)
(CEI 62311:2007, modifiée) (IEC 62311:2007, modifiziert)

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2007-12-04. CENELEC members are bound to comply
with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard
the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on
application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other
language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified
to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions.

CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

CENELEC
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Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung

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© 2008 CENELEC - All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC members.
Ref. No. EN 62311:2008 E
Foreword
The text of document 106/129/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 62311, prepared by IEC TC 106, Methods for
the assessment of electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields associated with human exposure, was
submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote.
A draft amendment, prepared by the Technical Committee CENELEC TC 106X, Electromagnetic fields in
the human environment, was submitted to the Unique Acceptance Procedure.
The combined texts of IEC 62311:2007 and the draft amendment prAA were approved by CENELEC as
EN 62311 on 2007-12-04.
This European Standard supersedes EN 50392:2004.
The following dates were fixed:
– latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2009-01-01
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2011-01-01
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62311:2007 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard with agreed common modifications as given below.
COMMON MODIFICATIONS
2 Normative references
Add:
Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC of 12 July 1999 on the limitation of exposure of the general public
to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz), Official Journal L 199 of 30 July 1999
3 Definitions
3.4 Replace "current density" by "induced current density".
Replace the whole Clause 4 by:
4 Compliance criteria
The electronic and electrotechnical apparatus shall comply with the basic restriction as specified in
Annex II of Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC.
NOTE 1 The time averaging in the EU-Recommendation applies.
The reference levels in the Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC on public exposure to electromagnetic
fields are derived from the basic restrictions using worst-case assumptions about exposure. If the
reference levels are met, then the basic restrictions will be complied with, but if the reference levels are
exceeded, that does not necessarily mean that the basic restrictions will not be met. In some situations, it
will be necessary to show compliance with the basic restrictions directly, but it may also be possible to
derive compliance criteria that allow a simple measurement or calculation to demonstrate compliance with
the basic restriction. Often these compliance criteria can be derived using realistic assumptions about
conditions under which exposures from a device may occur, rather than the conservative assumptions
that underly the reference levels.
NOTE 2 The limit is the basic restriction.
If the technology in the apparatus is not capable of producing an E-field, H-field or contact current, at the
normal user position, at levels higher than 1/2 the limit values then the apparatus is deemed to comply
with the requirements in this standard in respect of that E-field, H-field or contact current without further
assessment.
Bibliography
Add the following note for the standard indicated:
ISO/IEC 17025 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 (not modified).
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.

NOTE  When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD
applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

1)
IEC 60050-161 – International Electrotechnical Vocabulary – –
(IEV) -
Chapter 161: Electromagnetic compatibility

1)
Undated reference.
IEC 62311
Edition 1.0 2007-08
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Assessment of electronic and electrical equipment related to human exposure
restrictions for electromagnetic fields (0 Hz – 300 GHz)

Evaluation des équipements électroniques et électriques en relation avec
les restrictions d'exposition humaine aux champs électromagnétiques
(0 Hz – 300 GHz)
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
XB
CODE PRIX
ICS 97.030 ISBN 2-8318-9269-4
– 2 – 62311 © IEC:2007
CONTENTS
FOREWORD.4

1 Scope and object.6
2 Normative references .6
3 Terms and definitions .6
4 Compliance criteria.10
5 Assessment methods .10
6 Evaluation of compliance to limits.11
7 Applicability of compliance assessment methods.12
7.1 General .12
7.2 Generic procedure for assessment of equipment .14
8 Sources with multiple frequencies .17
8.1 Introduction .17
8.2 Frequency range from 1 Hz – 10 MHz (ICNIRP-based).17
8.2.1 Frequency domain assessment.17
8.2.2 Time domain assessment .19
8.3 Frequency range from 100 kHz – 300 GHz (ICNIRP-based) .21
8.4 Frequency range from 0 kHz – 5 MHz (IEEE-based).22
8.4.1 Frequency domain assessment.22
8.4.2 Time domain assessment .22
8.5 Frequency range from 3 kHz – 300 GHz (IEEE-based) .23
9 Assessment report.23
9.1 General .23
9.2 Items to be recorded in the assessment report .24
9.2.1 Assessment method .24
9.2.2 Presentation of the results.24
9.2.3 Equipment using external antennas .24
10 Information to be supplied with the equipment .24

Annex A (informative) Field calculation .25
Annex B (informative) SAR compliance assessment .30
Annex C (informative) Information for numerical modelling.32
Annex D (informative) Measurements of physical properties and body currents .61
Annex E (informative) Specific absorption rate (SAR) .65
Annex F (informative) Measurement of E and H field.67
Annex G (informative)  Source modelling .70

Bibliography.73

Figure 1 – Assessment flowchart .16
Figure 2 – Schematic of “weighting circuit”.19
Figure 3 – Dependency on frequency of the reference levels V plotted with smoothing
edges .19
Figure 4 – Transfer function A.20

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Figure A.1 – Geometry of antenna with largest linear dimension D.25
Figure A.2 – Current element Idlsin(ω t) at the origin of spherical coordinate system .26
2 2
Figure A.3 – Ratio of E , H , and E × H field components .27
Figure A.4 – Ratio of E × H field components for three typical antennas.28
Figure A.5 – Far-field = straight line, radiated near-field = lower line & all near-fields =
other line .
Figure C.1 – Numerical model of a homogenous ellipsoid .34
Figure C.2 – Numerical model of a homogenous cuboid.35
Figure C.3a — Description of the whole body .36
Figure C.3b — Details of the construction of the head and shoulders.37
Figure C.3 – Numerical model of a homogenous human body .37
Figure C.4 – Schematic of straight wire.41
Figure C.5 – Schematic of circular coil.42
Figure C.6 – Block diagram of the method .43
Figure C.7 – Test situation for validation – Current loop in front of a cuboid.45
Figure C.8 – Distribution of the electric current density J in the planes x = + 0,20 m
(left) and y = 0,0 m (right) .46
Figure C.9 – Helmholtz coils and prolate spheroid .47
Figure C.10a – Magnetic field .47
Figure C.10b – Induced current density .
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