kSIST FprEN IEC 60670-1:2020/A11:2020

Boxes and enclosures for electrical accessories for household and similar fixed electrical installations - Part 1: General requirements

To be launched for vote and published with prEN IEC=66754.

Dosen und Gehäuse für Installationsgeräte für Haushalt und ähnliche ortsfeste elektrische Installationen - Teil 1: Allgemeine Anforderungen

Boîtes et enveloppes pour appareillage électrique pour installations électriques fixes pour usages domestiques et analogues - Partie 1: Exigences générales

Škatle in ohišja za električno opremo za gospodinjstvo in podobne nepremične električne inštalacije - 1. del: Splošne zahteve

Standards Content (sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
oSIST prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/oprA11:2018
01-december-2018
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Boxes and enclosures for electrical accessories for household and similar fixed electrical

installations - Part 1: General requirements
Dosen und Gehäuse für Installationsgeräte für Haushalt und ähnliche ortsfeste
elektrische Installationen - Teil 1: Allgemeine Anforderungen

Boîtes et enveloppes pour appareillage électrique pour installations électriques fixes

pour usages domestiques et analogues - Partie 1: Exigences générales
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/prA11:2018
ICS:
29.120.99 'UXJDHOHNWULþQDGRGDWQD Other electrical accessories
RSUHPD
oSIST prEN IEC 60670- en,fr,de
1:2018/oprA11:2018

2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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oSIST prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/oprA11:2018
EUROPEAN STANDARD DRAFT
prEN IEC 60670-1
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
prA11
October 2018
ICS 29.120.10
English Version
Boxes and enclosures for electrical accessories for household
and similar fixed electrical installations - Part 1: General
requirements
Boîtes et enveloppes pour appareillage électrique pour To be completed
installations électriques fixes pour usages domestiques et
analogues - Partie 1: Exigences générales

This draft amendment prA11, if approved, will modify the European Standard prEN IEC 60670-1; it is submitted to CENELEC members for

enquiry.
Deadline for CENELEC: 2019-01-11.
It has been drawn up by CLC/TC 23BX.

If this draft becomes an amendment, CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which

stipulate the conditions for giving this amendment the status of a national standard without any alteration.

This draft amendment 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

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, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,

Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,

Switzerland, Turkey 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.
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

© 2018 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.

Project: 67936 Ref. No. prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/prA11:2018 E
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oSIST prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/oprA11:2018
prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/prA11:2018 (E)
European foreword

This document (prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/prA11:2018) has been prepared by SC 23B "Plugs, socket-outlets

and switches", of IEC/TC 23 "Electrical accessories".
This document is currently submitted to the Enquiry.
The following dates are proposed:
• latest date by which the existence of this (doa) dor + 6 months
document has to be announced at national
level
• latest date by which this document has to be (dop) dor + 12 months
implemented at national level by publication of
an identical national standard or by
endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards (dow) dor + 36 months
conflicting with this document have to be (to be confirmed or
withdrawn modified when voting)

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.

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oSIST prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/oprA11:2018
prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/prA11:2018 (E)
1 Modification to Clause 7, Classification
Delete from Table 1 classifications 7.2.2.2 and 7.2.2.3.
2 Modification to Clause 8, Marking
Replace f) by:
f) void
Replace j) by:

j) the letter Ha or information for boxes and enclosures classified according to 7.2.2.1

3 Modification to Clause 11, Provision for earthing
11.2 Replace by
11.2 Void
Delete Figures 3, 4, and replace the relevant titles by "void".
4 Modification to Clause 12, Construction
12.4 Add the following after the 3 paragraph:

In case there is a cavity, the head of the screw can be protected by an additional cap of insulating material.

In this case the manufacturers instruction shall give information concerning the cap to be used.

In case there is no cavity the head of the screw shall be protected with a cap of insulating material and in this

case, the cap shall be delivered with the box.
The cap shall stay in position during normal use.
Compliance is checked by the following test.

The caps are fixed to the boxes according to the manufacturer’s instructions and subjected to the ageing test

of 13.1.

After 1 h, the boxes are then turned to a position with the opening in the direction of the floor.

The cap shall not come detached.
12.6 Delete in the second paragraph the words " and/or IEC 60981".
12.13 Replace by
12.13 Void
Delete Figure 16 and replace the relevant titles by "void".
12.15 Delete in the second paragraph the words "or IEC 60981".
16.3 Replace by
16.3 Void
Delete Figure 25 and replace the relevant titles by "void".
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prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/prA11:2018 (E)
5 Modification to Clause 18, Resistance of insulating material to abnormal heat
and fire
Replace the 2 bullets by:
• By the test made at 850 °C:

for parts of insulating material necessary to retain current-carrying parts and/or parts of the earthing

circuit in position (with the exception of parts of insulating material needed to retain the earth terminal

in position in a box), and

for parts of insulating material of boxes and enclosures classified according to 7.2.2.1, with the exception

of parts protruding from the wall and additional and/or removable internal parts of enclosure (eg.

separator) not necessary to retain current carrying parts in position.
• By the test made at 650 °C:

for parts of insulating material not necessary to retain current-carrying parts in position (even though they

are in contact with them), and
for parts of insulating material retaining earthing terminal in position;

for parts of insulating material of boxes and enclosures classified according to 7.2.2.1, protruding from

the wall and additional and/or removable internal parts of enclosure (eg. separator) not necessary to

retain current carrying parts in position.
6 Addition of the following new sub-clause:
Z1 Electromagnetic fields (EMF) requirements

Products covered by this standard are, in normal use, passive or the electromagnetic field generated is

considered negligible. Therefore, these requirements are deemed to be met without performing any test.

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prEN IEC 60670-1:2018/prA11:2018 (E)
Annex ZB
(normative)
Special national conditions

Special national condition: National characteristic or practice that cannot be changed even over a long

period, e.g. climatic conditions, electrical earthing conditions.

NOTE If it affects harmonization, it forms part of the European Standard / Harmonization Document.

For the countries in which the relevant special national conditions apply these provisions are normative, for

other countries they are informative.
Clause Special national condition
8.1 United Kingdom
Add after (e):
The marking of the type reference is not used.
9 Spain
Boxes shall comply with the standard sheets specified in the Spanish Standard

UNE 20451. Screws are included in some of these standard sheets because screws are

considered as a dimensional requirement.
11.1 Denmark
Due to the lack of an earthing conductor in many existing old buildings,
boxes and enclosures requiring earth connection cannot normally be used.
12.5 Czech Republic, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Inlets according to 7.3.3 in boxes intended to receive switches or socket-
outlets shall have spout(s) with adequate inlet stops.
12.7 Denmark, Germany
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