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Dave provides his annual insight as Chair of the SCTE’s Standards and Technical committee at the BSI, CENELEC, IEC Standards and represents CENELEC TC209 in ETSI ERM17 Committees. He is also Chair of the BSI Technical Committee Cable Standards EPL100/04 and convenor of CENELEC TC209 / IEC TC100/TA05 working group 1 safety. Standards Update
Standard BS EN 60728-11:2023. Since then, we have started the process of resolving the EU Commission refusal of entry into the OJ (Official Journal of the EU). Entry into the OJ is important as it allows a presumption of conformity to the LVD (Low Voltage Directive) if the standard is followed. During the Frankfurt November meeting, we agreed to remove the equipment part of the standard which will allow a revised version to be introduced. This will allow the system only side of the standard to be issued although without the equipment LVD compliance. The equipment part of the standard may then be worked on separately to provide the compliance.
The current work is on a number of standards covering safety, EMC, DOCSIS and optical. We have had our second year of face- to-face meetings since the Covid-19 pandemic and, as I said last year, the interaction between technical committee members and aside discussions added significantly to the meetings and much more constructive work was conducted.
Dave Hodges, Vice President, SCTE
SAFETY BS EN 60728-11:2023
Working Group 1 look after safety. In 2023, Standard 60728-11 edition 5 became the new International Standard IEC EN 60728-11:2023 and a British
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