EN IEC 60335-2-101:2026

• Abstract:

  This European Standard deals with the safety of electric vaporizers for household and similar use, their rated voltage being not more than 250 V including direct current (DC) supplied appliances and battery-operated appliances

• Status: Not Published
• Publication Date: 03-Sep-2026
• ICS: 13.120 - Domestic safety
• ICS: 97.030 - Domestic electrical appliances in general
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 61 - Safety of household and similar electrical appliances
• Drafting Committee: CLC/TC 61 - Safety of household and similar electrical appliances
• Current Stage: 5060 - Voting results sent to TC, SR - Formal Approval
• Start Date: 26-Jun-2026
• Due Date: 27-Jul-2027
• Completion Date: 26-Jun-2026
• Ref Project: kSIST FprEN IEC 60335-2-101:2026 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-101: Particular requirements for vaporizers

• Refers: EN 60584-1:2013 - Thermocouples - Part 1: EMF specifications and tolerances
• Effective Date: 05-May-2026
• Amended By: EN IEC 60335-2-101:2026/A11:2026 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-101: Particular requirements for vaporizers
• Effective Date: 07-Apr-2025
• Revises: EN 60335-2-101:2002/A1:2008 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-101: Particular requirements for vaporizers
• Effective Date: 01-Apr-2025
• Revises: EN 60335-2-101:2002/A2:2014 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-101: Particular requirements for vaporizers
• Effective Date: 01-Apr-2025
• Revises: EN 60335-2-101:2002 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-101: Particular requirements for vaporizers
• Effective Date: 01-Apr-2025

Overview

EN IEC 60335-2-101:2026 is a European standard published by CLC, specifying the safety requirements for household and similar electrical vaporizers with a rated voltage not exceeding 250 V, including both direct current (DC) supplied and battery-operated appliances. This standard ensures a high level of domestic safety by addressing common hazards such as electrical, mechanical, thermal, and fire-related risks that may arise from the normal or abnormal use of vaporizers-including air fresheners and insect repellers-intended for use in residential and similar environments.

The standard applies not only to vaporizers in household settings, but also to those used by laypersons in shops, light industry, and farms, provided these appliances are not intended exclusively for industrial use. Its scope excludes appliances for heating liquids, insect killers, fabric steamers, humidifiers, and vaporizers designed for use in special atmospheres like those with explosive dust or gases.

Key Topics

• Product Scope: Covers electric vaporizers for household and similar use, including devices plugged directly into socket-outlets or connected via flexible cords.
• Safety and Performance: Addresses hazards related to electric shock, overheating, mechanical stability, heat and fire resistance, and radiation or toxicity. There's specific attention to accessible surface temperature limits and safe operation, even in abnormal conditions.
• Markings and Instructions: Stipulates appropriate labeling requirements and critical user instructions regarding safe operation and compatible vaporizing media to minimize risks of toxicity or fire.
• Testing and Compliance: Outlines test methods for electrical safety, protection against live parts, endurance under simulated fault conditions, and temperature measurements.
• Battery-Operated Appliances: Includes additional requirements for safety and construction in devices powered by batteries, including handling and testing of battery compartments.
• Surface Temperature Limits: Defines clear maximum temperature rises for various external surfaces of an appliance under normal and abnormal conditions to minimize burn risks.

Applications

The standard is crucial for:

• Manufacturers: Provides detailed safety criteria that must be integrated during the design and production of electric vaporizers, ensuring products meet European market access requirements.
• Product Testing and Certification: Used by conformity assessment bodies and testing laboratories as the basis for safety certification, helping products to achieve compliance marks.
• Regulators and Market Surveillance: Assists authorities in enforcing household electrical appliance safety, reducing accidents in the home and public settings.
• End-Users and Retailers: Offers assurance that vaporizers placed on the market adhere to harmonized European safety benchmarks, safeguarding domestic and public environments.

Devices covered by EN IEC 60335-2-101:2026 include:

• Air freshener vaporizers
• Insect repellent vaporizers
• Electrically heated aroma diffusers for household use

Special attention is given to prevent risks associated with misuse, children accessing hazardous parts, and inappropriate substances being vaporized.

Related Standards

EN IEC 60335-2-101:2026 is part of the wider IEC 60335 series on household appliance safety. Useful related standards include:

• IEC 60335-1: General requirements for the safety of household and similar electrical appliances; EN IEC 60335-2-101 is to be used in conjunction with this base standard.
• IEC 60335-2-15: Particular requirements for appliances for heating liquids.
• IEC 60335-2-59: Particular requirements for insect killers.
• IEC 60335-2-85: Particular requirements for fabric steamers.
• IEC 60335-2-98: Particular requirements for humidifiers.
• IEC 61032: Test probes for verifying protection against access to hazardous parts.

By adhering to EN IEC 60335-2-101:2026, manufacturers and users of household vaporizers support a safer domestic environment and ensure compliance with European safety norms for electrical appliances.

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-101:2026
01-januar-2026
Gospodinjski in podobni električni aparati - Varnost - 2-101. del: Posebne zahteve
za vlažilnike zraka
Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-101: Particular requirements
for vaporizers
Sicherheit elektrischer Geräte für den Hausgebrauch und ähnliche Zwecke - Teil 2-101:
Besondere Anforderungen für Verdampfergeräte
Appareils électrodomestiques et analogues - Sécurité - Partie 2-101: Exigences
particulières pour les vaporisateurs
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN IEC 60335-2-101:2025
ICS:
13.120 Varnost na domu Domestic safety
97.030 Električni aparati za dom na Domestic electrical
splošno appliances in general
oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-101:2026 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD DRAFT
prEN IEC 60335-2-101
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
November 2025
ICS 97.030; 13.120 Will supersede EN 60335-2-101:2002; EN 60335-2-
101:2002/A1:2008; EN 60335-2-101:2002/A2:2014
English Version
Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-101:
Particular requirements for vaporizers
(IEC 60335-2-101:2024)
Appareils électrodomestiques et analogues - Sécurité - Sicherheit elektrischer Geräte für den Hausgebrauch und
Partie 2-101: Exigences particulières pour les vaporisateurs ähnliche Zwecke - Teil 2-101: Besondere Anforderungen für
(IEC 60335-2-101:2024) Verdampfergeräte
(IEC 60335-2-101:2024)
This draft European Standard is submitted to CENELEC members for enquiry.
Deadline for CENELEC: 2026-02-13.

The text of this draft consists of the text of IEC 60335-2-101:2024.

If this draft becomes a European Standard, 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.

This draft European Standard was established by CENELEC 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
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Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are aware and to
provide supporting documentation.

Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without notice and
shall not be referred to as a European Standard.

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prEN IEC 60335-2-101:2025 (E)
1 European foreword
2 This document (prEN IEC 60335-2-101:2025) consists of the text of IEC 60335-2-101:2024 prepared
3 by IEC/TC 61 "Safety of household and similar electrical appliances".
4 This document is currently submitted to the Enquiry.
5 The following dates are proposed:
• latest date by which the existence of this document (doa) dav + 6 months
has to be announced at national level
• latest date by which this document has to be (dop) dav + 12 months
implemented at national level by publication of an
identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards (dow) dav + 36 months
conflicting with this document have to be withdrawn (to be confirmed or
modified when voting)
6 This document will supersede EN 60335-2-101:2002 and all of its amendments and corrigenda (if any).
7 This document is read in conjunction with prEN IEC 60335-2-101:2025/prAA:2025.
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IEC 60335-2-101 ®
Edition 2.0 2024-10
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Household and similar electrical appliances – Safety –

Part 2-101: Particular requirements for vaporizers

Appareils électrodomestiques et analogues – Sécurité –

Partie 2-101: Exigences particulières pour les vaporisateurs

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 97.030, 13.120 ISBN 978-2-8322-9745-2

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 7
1 Scope . 8
2 Normative references . 9
3 Terms and definitions . 9
4 General requirement . 9
5 General conditions for the tests . 9
6 Classification . 9
7 Marking and instructions . 9
8 Protection against access to live parts . 10
9 Starting of motor-operated appliances . 10
10 Power input and current . 10
11 Heating . 10
12 Charging of metal-ion batteries . 12
13 Leakage current and electric strength at operating temperature . 12
14 Transient overvoltages . 12
15 Moisture resistance . 12
16 Leakage current and electric strength . 12
17 Overload protection of transformers and associated circuits . 13
18 Endurance . 13
19 Abnormal operation . 13
20 Stability and mechanical hazards . 14
21 Mechanical strength . 14
22 Construction . 14
23 Internal wiring . 14
24 Components . 14
25 Supply connection and external flexible cords . 15
26 Terminals for external conductors . 15
27 Provision for earthing . 15
28 Screws and connections . 15
29 Clearances, creepage distances and solid insulation . 15
30 Resistance to heat and fire . 15
31 Resistance to rusting . 15
32 Radiation, toxicity and similar hazards . 15
Annexes . 17
Annex B (normative) Battery-operated appliances, separable batteries and detachable
batteries for battery-operated appliances . 18
Bibliography . 19

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Figure 101 – Probe for measuring surface temperatures . 16

Table 101 – Maximum temperature rises for specified external accessible surfaces
under normal operating conditions . 12

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HOUSEHOLD AND SIMILAR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES –
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IEC 60335-2-101 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 61: Safety of household and
similar electrical appliances. It is an International Standard.
This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2002, Amendment 1:2008
and Amendment 2:2014. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous
edition:
a) alignment with IEC 60335-1:2020;
b) conversion of some notes to normative text (Clause 1, 7.1);
c) application of test probe 19 has been introduced (8.1.1, 8.1.3, 20.2, B.22.3, B.22.4);
d) addition of external accessible surface temperatures (Clause 11).

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The text of this International Standard is based on the following documents:
Draft Report on voting
61/7278/FDIS 61/7302/RVD
Full information on the voting for its approval can be found in the report on voting indicated in
the above table.
The language used for the development of this International Standard is English.
This document was drafted in accordance with ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2, and developed in
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A list of all parts of the IEC 60335 series, under the general title: Household and similar
electrical appliances – Safety, can be found on the IEC website.
This part 2 is to be used in conjunction with the latest edition of IEC 60335-1 and its
amendments unless that edition precludes it; in that case, the latest edition that does not
preclude it is used. It was established on the basis of the sixth edition (2020) of that standard.
NOTE 1 When "Part 1" is mentioned in this standard, it refers to IEC 60335-1.
This part 2 supplements or modifies the corresponding clauses in IEC 60335-1, so as to convert
that publication into the IEC standard: Particular requirements for vaporizers.
When a particular subclause of Part 1 is not mentioned in this part 2, that subclause applies as
far as is reasonable. When this standard states "addition", "modification", or "replacement", the
relevant text in Part 1 is to be adapted accordingly.
NOTE 2 The following numbering system is used:
– subclauses, tables and figures that are numbered starting from 101 are additional to those in Part 1;
– unless notes are in a new subclause or involve notes in Part 1, they are numbered starting from 101, including
those in a replaced clause or subclause;
– additional annexes are lettered AA, BB, etc.
NOTE 3 The following print types are used:
– requirements: in roman type;
– test specifications: in italic type;
– notes: in small roman type.
Words in bold in the text are defined in Clause 3. When a definition concerns an adjective, the adjective and the
associated noun are also in bold.

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