ESE EUROPEAN NATIONAL STANDARS ARE IN FORCE AND NOT IN CONFLICT WITH EN-62305

[Internatational Lightning Protection Association]

The CENELEC Technical Board (BT) has finally put an end to a
“debate” initiated by some European standardization National
Committees.
For more than a year, some persons involved in Lightning Protection
standardization, members of organizations and manufacturers of
conventional Lightning protection systems have raised a so-called
“conflict” between, on one side, the French ESE standard NF C 17-102
and similar standards in Spain, Portugal , Slovakia, etc… and, on the
other side, the last CENELEC lightning protection standards EN 62 305
series (based on the IEC series). For a while, this so-called
“conflict” was considered as the “ultimate” tool discovered by anti-
ESE lobbyists to definitely eliminate this technology and its
standards by an unfair use of the administrative procedures of
CENELEC.The CENELEC BT has then been overwhelmed by an abundant
literature supposedly demonstrating the urgent need to withdraw the
corresponding standards.
But the CENELEC Technical Board decision No 136/013 published after
its April 2010 meeting does not follow these “experts” conclusions and
predications. CENELEC BT refused by two times to consider the
standards as being in conflict and decided to have the national ESE
standards existing providing they are clearly stating that they are
dealing with different topic than EN 62305 standards series especially
by making no reference to EN 62305 series.

A new version of the ESE national Standards should then be published
accordingly.
CENELEC BT also proposed that the resulting E.S.E. standards should be
proposed to I.E.C. as international draft standard.

[Paratrasnet Cpt Romania]

Is very good thing, But it would be more interesting to watch if
CENELEC and IEC will propose a single standard for lightning rod PDA
becouse in some country like Romania the organization gouvernamental
want to have tests in Romania, given that French manufacturers test
these products in the largest laboratories in the world are in France,
is something stupid.


From Romania,
ing. Maftei George



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