oSIST prEN IEC 62841-4-10:2023/oprAA:2023

Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 4-10: Particular requirements for pole-mounted pruners

Outils électroportatifs à moteur, outils portables et machines pour jardins et pelouses - Sécurité - Partie 4-10: Exigences particulières pour les élagueuses sur perche

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Elektromotorna ročna orodja, prenosna orodja ter stroji za trato in vrt - Varnost - 4-10. del: Posebne zahteve za obrezovalnike z drogom - Dopolnilo AA

General Information

• Status: Not Published
• Public Enquiry End Date: 23-Nov-2023
• ICS: 25.140.20 - Electric tools
• ICS: 65.060.70 - Horticultural equipment
• Technical Committee: VGA - Safety of household and similar electrical appliances
• Current Stage: 4020 - Public enquire (PE) (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 12-Sep-2023
• Due Date: 30-Jan-2024
• Completion Date: 05-Dec-2023
• Directive: 2006/42/EC - Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast)
• Mandate: M/396 - Mandate to CEN and Cenelec for standardisation in the field of machinery
• Ref Project: prEN IEC 62841-4-10:2023/prAA:2023 - Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 4-10: Particular requirements for pole-mounted pruners

Relations

• Amends: oSIST prEN IEC 62841-4-10:2023 - Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 4-10: Particular requirements for pole-mounted pruners
• Effective Date: 25-Jul-2023

Overview

prEN IEC 62841-4-10:2023/prAA:2023 is a draft CENELEC amendment that defines particular safety requirements for pole-mounted pruners (electric motor‑operated, transportable and lawn & garden machinery). It is an amendment to Part 4‑10 of the EN IEC 62841 series and is intended to be used together with EN 62841-1:2015 (General requirements). This draft (prAA) updates normative annexes, adds normative references and clarifies the relationship with EU legislation (Directive 2006/42/EC). Note: as a draft amendment it is distributed for enquiry and subject to change.

Key Topics

• Scope and application: Supplements/modifies EN 62841-1:2015 for pole‑mounted pruners; where Part 4‑10 is silent, Part 1 applies.
• Annex modifications:
  • Annex I retitled and clarified for measurement of noise and vibration emissions (normative).
  • Annex K (battery tools and battery packs) amended: pole‑mounted pruners shall not be equipped with an integral battery; compliance is checked by inspection.
• Normative references (Annex ZA): Adds and aligns international standards relevant to insulation, acoustics and vibration testing (see Related Standards).
• Regulatory alignment (Annex ZZ): Maps clauses of the standard to the essential requirements of Directive 2006/42/EC (Machinery Directive) to provide a presumption of conformity when cited in the Official Journal of the EU.
• Standards workstream: Prepared by CLC/TC 116 (“Safety and environmental aspects of motor‑operated electric tools”) and intended to become EN IEC 62841-4-10:202x/A11:202x if approved.

Applications

Who uses this standard and why:

• Manufacturers of pole‑mounted pruners: design, safety verification, and documentation to meet EU market expectations.
• Test laboratories and conformity assessors: carry out noise/vibration and electrical inspections, verify absence of integral batteries and other safety features.
• Product safety and compliance engineers: apply requirements to ensure alignment with EN 62841‑1 and the Machinery Directive for CE marking.
• Technical authors and training providers: prepare instructions, warning labels and user information in line with the standard’s marking and instructions clauses.

Benefits:

• Clear guidance for safe design and testing of pole‑mounted pruners.
• Supports conformity assessment and market access within the EU.

Related Standards

Key referenced documents included via Annex ZA:

• EN 62841-1:2015 (General requirements)
• IEC 60664-3 / EN 60664-3 (Insulation coordination - coating/potting)
• IEC 60664-4 / EN 60664-4 (High‑frequency voltage stress)
• ISO 354, ISO 3744, ISO 11201 (Acoustics / noise measurement)
• ISO 22867, ISO 22868 (Vibration and noise test codes for forestry/gardening machinery)

Keywords: pole-mounted pruners safety standard, EN IEC 62841-4-10, pole pruners, noise and vibration measurement, battery tool restriction, Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, CLC/TC116.

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-november-2023
Elektromotorna ročna orodja, prenosna orodja ter stroji za trato in vrt - Varnost - 4-
10. del: Posebne zahteve za obrezovalnike z drogom - Dopolnilo AA
Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden
machinery - Safety - Part 4-10: Particular requirements for pole-mounted pruners
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN IEC 62841-4-10:2023/prAA:2023
ICS:
25.140.20 Električna orodja Electric tools
65.060.70 Vrtnarska oprema Horticultural equipment
oSIST prEN IEC 62841-4- en
10:2023/oprAA:2023
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD DRAFT
prEN IEC 62841-4-10
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
prAA
September 2023
ICS  -
English Version
Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and
lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 4-10: Particular
requirements for pole-mounted pruners
To be completed To be completed
This draft amendment prAA, if approved, will modify the European Standard prEN IEC 62841-4-10; it is submitted to CENELEC members
for enquiry.
Deadline for CENELEC: 2023-11-24.

It has been drawn up by CLC/TC 116.

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, 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,
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.

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
© 2023 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Project: 78419 Ref. No. prEN IEC 62841-4-10:2023/prAA:2023 E

1 Contents Page
2 European foreword . 3
3 1 Modification to Annex I, “Measurement of noise and vibration emissions” . 5
4 2 Modification to Annex K, “Battery tools and battery packs” . 5
5 3 Addition of Annex ZA, “Normative references to international publications with their
6 corresponding European publications” . 5
7 4 Addition of Annex ZZ, “Relationship between this European Standard and the essential
8 requirements of Directive 2006/42/EC aimed to be covered” . 7
9 European foreword
10 This document (prEN IEC 62841-4-10:2023/prAA:2023) has been prepared by CLC/TC 116 “Safety and
11 environmental aspects of motor-operated electric tools”.
12 This document is currently submitted to the Enquiry.
13 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 + 48 months
conflicting with this document have to be (to be confirmed or
withdrawn modified when voting)
14 This document modifies by common modifications prEN IEC 62841-4-10:2023, which consists of the text of
15 116/xxx/CDV (future IEC 62841-4-10, Ed. 1) prepared by IEC/TC 116 “Safety of motor-operated electric tools”.
16 If approved, this draft amendment will be published as EN IEC 62841-4-10:202x/A11:202x.
17 This series is divided into four parts.
18 Part 1: General requirements which are common to most hand-held electric motor operated tools (for the
19 purpose of this document referred to simply as tools) which could come within the scope of this document;
20 Part 2, 3 or 4: Requirements for particular types of tools which either supplement or modify the requirements
21 given in Part 1 to account for the particular hazards and characteristics of these specific tools.
22 Part 4-10 is used in conjunction with EN 62841-1:2015 and its amendments.
23 Part 4-10 supplements or modifies the corresponding clauses in EN 62841-1:2015 and its amendments, so as
24 to convert it into the European Standard: Particular requirements for pole-mounted pruners.
25 Where a particular subclause of Part 1 is not mentioned in the Part 4-10, that subclause applies. When this
26 document states “addition”, “modification” or “replacement”, the relevant text in Part 1 is to be adapted
27 accordingly.
28 The following print types are used:
29 — requirements; in roman type;
30 — test specifications: in italic type;
31 — notes: in smaller roman type.
32 The terms defined in Clause 3 are printed in bold typeface.
33 Subclauses, notes, tables and figures which are additional to those in Part 1 are numbered starting from 101.
34 Clauses, subclauses, notes, tables, figures and annexes which are additional to those in IEC 62841-4-10:202x
35 are prefixed “Z”.
36 This document follows the overall requirements of EN ISO 12100.
37 This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CENELEC by the European
38 Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these requests for its
39 Member States.
40 For the relationship with EU Legislation, see informative Annex ZZ, which is an integral part of this document.
41 Compliance with the clauses of Part 1 together with Part 4-10 provides one means of conforming with the
42 essential health and safety requirements of the Directive concerned.
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