EN 62479:2010

Assessment of the compliance of low power electronic and electrical equipment with the basic restrictions related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields (10 MHz to 300 GHz)

IEC 62479:2010 provides simple conformity assessment methods for low-power electronic and electrical equipment to an exposure limit relevant to electromagnetic fields (EMF). If such equipment cannot be shown to comply with the applicable EMF exposure requirements using the methods included in this standard for EMF assessment, then other standards, including IEC 62311 or other (EMF) product standards, may be used for conformity assessment.

Beurteilung der Übereinstimmung von elektronischen und elektrischen Geräten kleiner Leistung mit den Basisgrenzwerten für die Sicherheit von Personen in elektromagnetischen Feldern (10 MHz bis 300 GHz)

Evaluation de la conformité des appareils électriques et électroniques de faible puissance aux restrictions de base concernant l'exposition des personnes aux champs électromagnétiques (10 MHz à 300 GHz)

La CEI 62479:2010 fournit des méthodes simples pour l'évaluation de la conformité des appareils électriques et électroniques de faible puissance à une limite d'exposition pertinente pour les champs électromagnétiques (CEM). Si on ne peut pas montrer, en utilisant les méthodes d'évaluation des CEM de la présente norme, qu'un appareil satisfait aux exigences d'exposition aux CEM applicables, alors d'autres normes, incluant la norme CEI 62311 ou d'autres normes de produit (CEM), peuvent être employées pour l'évaluation de la conformité.",PE

Ocena ustreznosti nizkonapetostnih elektronskih in električnih aparatov glede na osnovne mejne vrednosti izpostavljenosti ljudi elektromagnetnemu sevanju (10 MHz - 300 GHz) (IEC 62479:2010, spremenjen)

Ta mednarodni standard določa preproste metode ugotavljanja skladnosti  nizkonapetostnih elektronskih in električnih aparatov pri mejni vrednosti izpostavljenosti, ki ustreza elektromagnetnemu sevanju(EMF). Če se za tako opremo ne more dokazati, da je v skladu z ustreznimi zahtevami glede izpostavlejnosti EMF z metodami, vključenimi v ta standard, za ocenjevanja EMF, potem se lahko drugi standardi, vključno z 62311 ali drugimi (EMF) standardi za izdelke, uporabijo za ugotavljanje skladnosti.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 16-Sep-2010
• Withdrawal Date: 31-Aug-2013
• ICS: 17.220.20 - Measurement of electrical and magnetic quantities
• ICS: 35.020 - Information technology (IT) 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: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 17-Sep-2010
• Completion Date: 17-Sep-2010
• 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
• Ref Project: SIST EN 62479:2010 - Assessment of the compliance of low power electronic and electrical equipment with the basic restrictions related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields (10 MHz to 300 GHz) (IEC 62479:2010, modified)

Relations

• Replaces: EN 50371:2002 - Generic standard to demonstrate the compliance of low power electronic and electrical apparatus with the basic restrictions related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields (10 MHz - 300 GHz) - General public
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

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Assessment of the compliance of low power electronic and electrical equipment with the
basic restrictions related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields (10 MHz to 300
GHz) (IEC 62479:2010, modified)
Beurteilung der Übereinstimmung von elektronischen und elektrischen Geräten kleiner
Leistung mit den Basisgrenzwerten für die Sicherheit von Personen in
elektromagnetischen Feldern (10 MHz bis 300 GHz) (IEC 62479:2010, modifiziert)
Evaluation de la conformité des appareils électriques et électroniques de faible
puissance aux restrictions de base concernant l'exposition des personnes aux champs
électromagnétiques (10 MHz à 300 GHz) (CEI 62479:2010, modifiée)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62479:2010
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 62479
NORME EUROPÉENNE
September 2010
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 17.220.20; 35.020 Supersedes EN 50371:2002

English version
Assessment of the compliance of low power electronic and electrical
equipment with the basic restrictions related to human exposure to
electromagnetic fields (10 MHz to 300 GHz)
(IEC 62479:2010, modified)
Evaluation de la conformité des appareils Beurteilung der Übereinstimmung von
électriques et électroniques de faible elektronischen und elektrischen Geräten
puissance aux restrictions de base kleiner Leistung mit den Basisgrenzwerten
concernant l'exposition des personnes für die Sicherheit von Personen
aux champs électromagnétiques in elektromagnetischen Feldern
(10 MHz à 300 GHz) (10 MHz bis 300 GHz)
(CEI 62479:2010, modifiée) (IEC 62479:2010, modifiziert)

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2010-09-01. 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
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Ref. No. EN 62479:2010 E
Foreword
The text of document 106/198/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 62479, 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 to the European Standard was prepared by the Technical Committee CENELEC
TC 106X, Electromagnetic fields in the human environment. It was submitted to the Unique Acceptance
Procedure.
The combined texts were approved by CENELEC as EN 62479 on 2010-09-01.
This European Standard supersedes EN 50371:2002.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN and CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent
rights.
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) 2011-09-01
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2013-09-01
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62479:2010 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard with agreed common modifications as given below.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following note has to be added for the standard indicated:
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 NOTE  Harmonized as EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 (not modified).

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 Terms and definitions
3.4
basic restriction
Add the following note:
NOTE Basic restrictions can be found in Annex II (Table 1) of the Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC.

4 Conformity assessment methods
4.1 General considerations
Add before the first paragraph:
The electronic and electro technical apparatus shall comply with the basic restriction as specified in
Annex II of Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC.

NOTE 1 The Council Recommendation 1999/519/EC is based on the ICNIRP guidelines [1] with some additional restrictions.
NOTE 2 The time averaging in the EU-Recommendation applies.
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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

IEC 62311 (mod) - Assessment of electronic and electrical EN 62311 -
equipment related to human exposure
restrictions for electromagnetic fields
(0 Hz - 300 GHz)
IEC 62479 ®
Edition 1.0 2010-06
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Assesment of the compliance of low-power electronic and electrical equipment
with the basic restrictions related to human exposure to electromagnetic fields
(10 MHz to 300 GHz)
Évaluation de la conformité des appareils électriques et électroniques de faible
puissance aux restrictions de base concernant l’exposition des personnes aux
champs électromagnétiques (10 MHz à 300 GHz)

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
R
CODE PRIX
ICS 17.220.20; 35.020 ISBN 978-2-88910-989-0
– 2 – 62479 © IEC:2010
CONTENTS
FOREWORD.3
1 Scope.5
2 Normative references .5
3 Terms and definitions .5
4 Conformity assessment methods .8
4.1 General considerations.8
4.2 Low-power exclusion level (P ) .9
max
4.3 Exposure to multiple transmitting sources .10
5 EMF assessment report.10
5.1 General considerations.10
5.2 Equipment-related information.10
6 Use of measurement uncertainty in the evaluation of compliance to limits .10
Annex A (informative) Derivation of low-power exclusion level from ICNIRP and IEEE
exposure limits .12
Annex B (informative) Derivation of alternative low-power exclusion levels for wireless
devices used close to the body .14
Annex C (informative) Compliance requirement for a pulsed field.17
Annex D (informative) Topics from ISO/IEC 17025 relevant for EMF assessment
reports .18
Bibliography.19

Figure 1 – Routes to show compliance with low-power exclusion level.9

Table A.1 – Example values of SAR-based P for some cases described by ICNIRP,
max
IEEE Std C95.1-1999 and IEEE Std C95.1-2005.13
Table B.1 – Some typical frequency bands of portable wireless devices and
corresponding low-power exclusion levels P ′ predicted using Equations (B.1)
max
through (B.9) .16

62479 © IEC:2010 – 3 –
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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ASSESMENT OF THE COMPLIANCE OF LOW-POWER
ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
WITH THE BASIC RESTRICTIONS RELATED TO HUMAN
EXPOSURE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
(10 MHz to 300 GHz)
FOREWORD
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International Standard IEC 62479 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 106:
Methods for the assessment of electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields associated with
human exposure.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
106/198/FDIS 106/205/RVD
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