EN IEC 61293:2020
(Main)Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety requirements
Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety requirements
IEC 61293:2019 establishes minimum requirements and general rules on marking electric equipment with ratings and other characteristics to enable the proper and safe selection and installation of electric equipment related to any supply of electricity. The object of this document is to: • provide general requirements for the marking of the characteristics related to any supply system, such as voltage, current, frequency and power, without any restrictions; • provide technical committees with uniform methods for the marking of electrical ratings of products. This document is primarily intended for application by technical committees when specifying minimum markings of ratings related to any electrical supply of equipment, sub-assemblies and components, but it is also for application by product manufacturers for marking their products. This horizontal standard is primarily intended for use by technical committees in the preparation of standards in accordance with the principles laid down in IEC Guide 108. One of the responsibilities of a technical committee is, wherever applicable, to make use of horizontal standards in the preparation of its publications. The contents of this horizontal standard will not apply unless specifically referred to or included in the relevant publications. IEC 61293:2019 cancels and replaces the first edition published in 1994. This edition constitutes a technical revision. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition: a) its status as a basic safety publication has been removed, and it has become a horizontal publication in accordance with IEC Guide 108; b) the scope is extended to include the applicability of this document to product manufacturers; c) the addition of a provision that the visibility of the marking during normal operation should be considered; d) more detailed requirements where equipment has a set or range of rated values for a given characteristic; e) requirements regarding the provision of the markings also in the technical documentation have been added; f) some notes have been converted to normative text; g) normative references and references to other standards have been updated.
Kennzeichnung elektrischer Betriebsmittel mit Bemessungsdaten für die Stromversorgung - Anforderungen für die Sicherheit
Marquage des matériels électriques avec des caractéristiques assignées relatives à l'alimentation électrique - Exigences de sécurité
L'IEC 61293:2019 établit les exigences minimales et les règles générales pour le marquage des matériels électriques avec des caractéristiques assignées et autres caractéristiques, afin de pouvoir choisir et installer, de manière adéquate et sûre, les matériels électriques associés à toute source d'alimentation électrique. L'objet de ce document est de: • fournir les exigences générales concernant le marquage, sans aucune restriction, des caractéristiques relatives à toute alimentation, telle que la tension, le courant, la fréquence et la puissance; • fournir aux comités d'études des méthodes uniformes concernant le marquage des caractéristiques assignées électriques des produits. Ce document est destiné principalement à être appliqué par les comités d'études lors de la spécification des marquages minimaux des caractéristiques assignées relatives à toute alimentation électrique de matériels, sous-ensembles et composants. Il est également destiné à être appliqué par les fabricants de produits pour le marquage de leurs produits. Cette norme horizontale est essentiellement destinée à l'usage des comités d'études dans la préparation des normes, conformément aux principes établis dans le Guide 108 de l'IEC. Une des responsabilités d'un comité d'études est, partout où cela est possible, de se servir des normes horizontales lors de la préparation de ses publications. Le contenu de cette norme horizontale ne s'appliquera pas, à moins qu'il ne soit spécifiquement désigné ou inclus dans les publications concernées. L'IEC 61293:2019 annule et remplace la première édition parue en 1994. Cette édition constitue une révision technique. Cette édition inclut les modifications techniques majeures suivantes par rapport à l'édition précédente: a) son statut de publication fondamentale de sécurité a été supprimé; b) le domaine d'application est étendu afin d'inclure également l'applicabilité du présent document aux fabricants de produits; c) l'ajout d'une provision pour prendre en compte la visibilité du marquage en fonctionnement normal; d) des exigences plus détaillées ont été ajoutées lorsqu'un matériel comporte un ensemble ou une plage de valeurs assignées pour une caractéristique donnée; e) des exigences concernant l'intégration des marquages également dans la documentation technique ont été ajoutées; f) certaines notes ont été transformées en texte normatif; g) les références normatives et les références à d'autres normes ont été actualisées.
Označevanje električne opreme z naznačeno močjo - Varnostne zahteve (IEC 61293:2019)
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 61293:2020
01-julij-2020
Nadomešča:
SIST EN 61293:1999
Označevanje električne opreme z naznačeno močjo - Varnostne zahteve (IEC
61293:2019)
Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety
requirements (IEC 61293:2019)
Kennzeichnung elektrischer Betriebsmittel mit Bemessungsdaten für die
Stromversorgung - Anforderungen für die Sicherheit (IEC 61293:2019)
Marquage des matériels électriques avec des caractéristiques assignées relatives à
l'alimentation électrique - Prescriptions de sécurité (IEC 61293:2019)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 61293:2020
ICS:
29.020 Elektrotehnika na splošno Electrical engineering in
general
SIST EN 61293:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
SIST EN 61293:2020
SIST EN 61293:2020
EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 61293
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
April 2020
ICS 29.020 Supersedes EN 61293:1994 and all of its amendments
and corrigenda (if any)
English Version
Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical
supply - Safety requirements
(IEC 61293:2019)
Marquage des matériels électriques avec des Kennzeichnung elektrischer Betriebsmittel mit
caractéristiques assignées relatives à l'alimentation Bemessungsdaten für die Stromversorgung -
électrique - Exigences de sécurité Anforderungen für die Sicherheit
(IEC 61293:2019) (IEC 61293:2019)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2019-10-21. 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 CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre 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 CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2020 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Ref. No. EN IEC 61293:2020 E
SIST EN 61293:2020
European foreword
The text of document 3/1404/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 61293, prepared by IEC/TC 3 "Information
structures and elements, identification and marking principles, documentation and graphical symbols"
was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2020-10-10
level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2023-04-10
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 61293:1994 and all of its amendments and corrigenda (if any).
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CENELEC by the European Commission
and the European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of EU Directive(s).
For the relationship with EU Directive(s) see informative Annex ZZ, which is an integral part of this
document.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61293:2019 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards
indicated:
IEC 60038 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60038
IEC 60068-2-70 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60068-2-70
SIST EN 61293:2020
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements 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 1 Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60027 series Letters symbols to be used in electrical EN 60027 series
technology
IEC 60417 1973 Graphical symbols for use on equipment. - -
Index, survey and compilation of the single
sheets.
IEC 60445 - Basic and safety principles for man- EN 60445 2017
machine interface, marking and
identification - Identification of equipment
terminals, conductor terminations and
conductors
IEC 60529 - Degrees of protection provided by EN 60529 1991
enclosures (IP Code)
/corrigendum 1993
May 1993
- - +A1 2000
- - /AC 2016
- - +A2 2013
- - +A2/AC 2019
IEC 60617 2005 Standard data element types with - -
associated classification scheme for
electric components -- Part 4: IEC
reference collection fo standard data
element types and component classes
IEC 61082-1 2014 Preparation of documents used in EN 61082-1 2015
electrotechnology - Part 1: Rules
IEC 61140 - Protection against electric shock - EN 61140 2016
Common aspects for installation and
equipment
IEC 80000 series Quantities and units EN 80000 series
Dated as no equivalent European Standard exists.
SIST EN 61293:2020
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
ISO 7000 2019 Graphical symbols for use on equipment - - -
Registered symbols
ISO 80000 series Quantities and units EN ISO 80000 series
SIST EN 61293:2020
Annex ZZ
(informative)
Relationship between this European Standard and the safety objectives of
Directive 2014/35/EU [2014 OJ L96] aimed to be covered
This European Standard has been prepared under a Commission’s standardization request relating to
harmonized standards in the field of the Low Voltage Directive, M/511, to provide one voluntary means
of conforming to safety objectives of Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonization 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
[2014 OJ L96].
Once this standard is cited in the Official Journal of the European Union under that Directive,
compliance with the normative clauses of this standard given in Table ZZ.1 confers, within the limits of
the scope of this standard, a presumption of conformity with the corresponding safety objectives of
that Directive, and associated EFTA regulations.
Table ZZ.1 – Correspondence between this European Standard
and Annex I of Directive 2014/35/EU [2014 OJ L96]
Safety objectives of Clause(s) / sub-clause(s) Remarks / Notes
Directive 2014/35/EU of this EN
Annex 1,1(a) Clause 4
WARNING 1 — Presumption of conformity stays valid only as long as a reference to this European
Standard is maintained in the list published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Users of this
standard should consult frequently the latest list published in the Official Journal of the European
Union.
WARNING 2 — Other Union legislation may be applicable to the product(s) falling within the scope of
this standard.
SIST EN 61293:2020
SIST EN 61293:2020
IEC 61293 ®
Edition 2.0 2019-09
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
HORIZONTAL STANDARD
NORME HORIZONTALE
Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply –
Safety requirements
Marquage des matériels électriques avec des caractéristiques assignées
relatives à l'alimentation électrique – Exigences de sécurité
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 29.020 ISBN 978-2-8322-7252-7
SIST EN 61293:2020
– 2 – IEC 61293:2019 © IEC 2019
CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
1 Scope . 5
2 Normative references . 5
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Marking requirements . 8
4.1 Basic requirements . 8
4.2 Marking of electric equipment with its characteristics . 8
4.2.1 General . 8
4.2.2 Characteristics of the supply system . 9
4.2.3 Rated values of equipment . 9
4.2.4 Other characteristics . 9
4.2.5 Sequence of rated values and other characteristics . 10
4.3 Representation of values . 10
4.3.1 General . 10
4.3.2 Single value . 10
4.3.3 Limit values . 10
4.3.4 Two and more values . 10
4.3.5 Range of values . 11
4.3.6 Tolerances . 11
5 Consistency of marking presentation . 11
6 Application . 12
Annex A (informative) Examples . 13
Annex B (informative) List of notes concerning certain countries . 15
Bibliography . 16
Table A.1 – Examples of markings for electric equipment with ratings related to supply
of electricity . 13
Table A.2 – Examples of letter notations and graphical symbols . 14
Table B.1 – Notes concerning certain countries . 15
SIST EN 61293:2020
IEC 61293:2019 © IEC 2019 – 3 –
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
____________
MARKING OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WITH RATINGS RELATED
TO ELECTRICAL SUPPLY – SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
FOREWORD
1) The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a worldwide organization for standardization comprising
all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of IEC is to promote
international co-operation on all questions concerning standardization in the electrical and electronic fields. To
this end and in addition to other activities, IEC publishes International Standards, Technical Specifications,
Technical Reports, Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) and Guides (hereafter referred to as "IEC
Publication(s)"). Their preparation is entrusted to technical committees; any IEC National Committee interested
in the subject dealt with may participate in this preparatory work. International, governmental and non-
governmental organizations liaising with the IEC also participate in this preparation. IEC collaborates closely
with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in accordance with conditions determined by
agreement between the two organizations.
2) The formal decisions or agreements of IEC on technical matters express, as nearly as possible, an internatio
...
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-julij-2020
Nadomešča:
SIST EN 61293:1999
Označevanje električne opreme z naznačeno močjo - Varnostne zahteve (IEC
61293:2019)
Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply - Safety
requirements (IEC 61293:2019)
Kennzeichnung elektrischer Betriebsmittel mit Bemessungsdaten für die
Stromversorgung - Anforderungen für die Sicherheit (IEC 61293:2019)
Marquage des matériels électriques avec des caractéristiques assignées relatives à
l'alimentation électrique - Prescriptions de sécurité (IEC 61293:2019)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 61293:2020
ICS:
29.020 Elektrotehnika na splošno Electrical engineering in
general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 61293
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
April 2020
ICS 29.020 Supersedes EN 61293:1994 and all of its amendments
and corrigenda (if any)
English Version
Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical
supply - Safety requirements
(IEC 61293:2019)
Marquage des matériels électriques avec des Kennzeichnung elektrischer Betriebsmittel mit
caractéristiques assignées relatives à l'alimentation Bemessungsdaten für die Stromversorgung -
électrique - Exigences de sécurité Anforderungen für die Sicherheit
(IEC 61293:2019) (IEC 61293:2019)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2019-10-21. 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 CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre 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 CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the
same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2020 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Ref. No. EN IEC 61293:2020 E
European foreword
The text of document 3/1404/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 61293, prepared by IEC/TC 3 "Information
structures and elements, identification and marking principles, documentation and graphical symbols"
was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2020-10-10
level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2023-04-10
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 61293:1994 and all of its amendments and corrigenda (if any).
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CENELEC by the European Commission
and the European Free Trade Association, and supports essential requirements of EU Directive(s).
For the relationship with EU Directive(s) see informative Annex ZZ, which is an integral part of this
document.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61293:2019 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards
indicated:
IEC 60038 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60038
IEC 60068-2-70 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60068-2-70
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements 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 1 Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant
EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60027 series Letters symbols to be used in electrical EN 60027 series
technology
IEC 60417 1973 Graphical symbols for use on equipment. - -
Index, survey and compilation of the single
sheets.
IEC 60445 - Basic and safety principles for man- EN 60445 2017
machine interface, marking and
identification - Identification of equipment
terminals, conductor terminations and
conductors
IEC 60529 - Degrees of protection provided by EN 60529 1991
enclosures (IP Code)
/corrigendum 1993
May 1993
- - +A1 2000
- - /AC 2016
- - +A2 2013
- - +A2/AC 2019
IEC 60617 2005 Standard data element types with - -
associated classification scheme for
electric components -- Part 4: IEC
reference collection fo standard data
element types and component classes
IEC 61082-1 2014 Preparation of documents used in EN 61082-1 2015
electrotechnology - Part 1: Rules
IEC 61140 - Protection against electric shock - EN 61140 2016
Common aspects for installation and
equipment
IEC 80000 series Quantities and units EN 80000 series
Dated as no equivalent European Standard exists.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
ISO 7000 2019 Graphical symbols for use on equipment - - -
Registered symbols
ISO 80000 series Quantities and units EN ISO 80000 series
Annex ZZ
(informative)
Relationship between this European Standard and the safety objectives of
Directive 2014/35/EU [2014 OJ L96] aimed to be covered
This European Standard has been prepared under a Commission’s standardization request relating to
harmonized standards in the field of the Low Voltage Directive, M/511, to provide one voluntary means
of conforming to safety objectives of Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonization 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
[2014 OJ L96].
Once this standard is cited in the Official Journal of the European Union under that Directive,
compliance with the normative clauses of this standard given in Table ZZ.1 confers, within the limits of
the scope of this standard, a presumption of conformity with the corresponding safety objectives of
that Directive, and associated EFTA regulations.
Table ZZ.1 – Correspondence between this European Standard
and Annex I of Directive 2014/35/EU [2014 OJ L96]
Safety objectives of Clause(s) / sub-clause(s) Remarks / Notes
Directive 2014/35/EU of this EN
Annex 1,1(a) Clause 4
WARNING 1 — Presumption of conformity stays valid only as long as a reference to this European
Standard is maintained in the list published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Users of this
standard should consult frequently the latest list published in the Official Journal of the European
Union.
WARNING 2 — Other Union legislation may be applicable to the product(s) falling within the scope of
this standard.
IEC 61293 ®
Edition 2.0 2019-09
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
HORIZONTAL STANDARD
NORME HORIZONTALE
Marking of electrical equipment with ratings related to electrical supply –
Safety requirements
Marquage des matériels électriques avec des caractéristiques assignées
relatives à l'alimentation électrique – Exigences de sécurité
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
INTERNATIONALE
ICS 29.020 ISBN 978-2-8322-7252-7
– 2 – IEC 61293:2019 © IEC 2019
CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
1 Scope . 5
2 Normative references . 5
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Marking requirements . 8
4.1 Basic requirements . 8
4.2 Marking of electric equipment with its characteristics . 8
4.2.1 General . 8
4.2.2 Characteristics of the supply system . 9
4.2.3 Rated values of equipment . 9
4.2.4 Other characteristics . 9
4.2.5 Sequence of rated values and other characteristics . 10
4.3 Representation of values . 10
4.3.1 General . 10
4.3.2 Single value . 10
4.3.3 Limit values . 10
4.3.4 Two and more values . 10
4.3.5 Range of values . 11
4.3.6 Tolerances . 11
5 Consistency of marking presentation . 11
6 Application . 12
Annex A (informative) Examples . 13
Annex B (informative) List of notes concerning certain countries . 15
Bibliography . 16
Table A.1 – Examples of markings for electric equipment with ratings related to supply
of electricity . 13
Table A.2 – Examples of letter notations and graphical symbols . 14
Table B.1 – Notes concerning certain countries . 15
IEC 61293:2019 © IEC 2019 – 3 –
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
____________
MARKING OF ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT WITH RATINGS RELATED
TO ELECTRICAL SUPPLY – SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
FOREWORD
1) The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a worldwide organization for standardization comprising
all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of IEC is to promote
international co-operation on all questions concerning standardization in the electrical and electronic fields. To
this end and in addition to other activities, IEC publishes International Standards, Technical Specifications,
Technical Reports, Publicly Available Specifications (PAS) and Guides (hereafter referred to as "IEC
Publication(s)"). Their preparation is entrusted to technical committees; any IEC National Committee interested
in the subject dealt with may participate in this preparatory work. International, governmental and non-
governmental organizations liaising with the IEC also participate in this preparation. IEC collaborates closely
with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in accordance with conditions determined by
agreement between the two organizations.
2) The formal decisions or agreements of IEC on technical matte
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