EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020

Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment - Part 1: Safety requirements

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Einrichtungen für Audio/Video-, Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik - Teil 1: Sicherheitsanforderungen

Equipements des technologies de l'audio/vidéo, de l'information et de la communication - Partie 1 : Exigences de sécurité.

Oprema za avdio/video, informacijsko in komunikacijsko tehnologijo - 1. del: Varnostne zahteve

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 05-Mar-2020
• Withdrawal Date: 05-Jan-2023
• ICS: 33.160.01 - Audio, video and audiovisual systems in general
• ICS: 35.020 - Information technology (IT) in general
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 108X - Safety of electronic equipment within the fields of Audio/Video, Information Technology and Communication Technology
• Drafting Committee: CLC/TC 108X - Safety of electronic equipment within the fields of Audio/Video, Information Technology and Communication Technology
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 06-Mar-2020
• Completion Date: 06-Mar-2020
• Directive: 2001/95/EC - Directive 2001/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 December 2001 on general product safety
• Directive: 2014/35/EU - Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation 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
• Directive: 2014/53/EU - Directive 2014/53/EU of The European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC
• Mandate: M/452 - Standardisation mandate to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI in the field of Directives 1999/5/EC, 2006/95/EC and 2001/95/EC for health and safety aspects of personal music players and mobile phones with a music playing function
• Mandate: M/511 - Mandate to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI relating to harmonised standards in the field of the Low Voltage Directive
• Mandate: M/536 - [C(2015)536] Standardisation request as regards radio equipment in support of Directive 2014/53/EU
• Ref Project: SIST EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020 - Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment - Part 1: Safety requirements

Relations

• Amends: EN IEC 62368-1:2020 - Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment - Part 1: Safety requirements
• Effective Date: 03-Jul-2018
• Revised: EN IEC 62368-1:2024 - Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment - Part 1: Safety requirements
• Effective Date: 26-Jul-2021

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN IEC 62368-1:2019/A11:2020
01-julij-2020
Oprema za avdio/video, informacijsko in komunikacijsko tehnologijo - 1. del:
Varnostne zahteve
Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment - Part 1: Safety
requirements
Einrichtungen für Audio/Video-, Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik - Teil 1:
Sicherheitsanforderungen
Equipements des technologies de l'audio/vidéo, de l'information et de la communication -
Partie 1 : Exigences de sécurité.
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020
ICS:
33.160.01 Avdio, video in avdiovizualni Audio, video and audiovisual
sistemi na splošno systems in general
35.020 Informacijska tehnika in Information technology (IT) in
tehnologija na splošno general
SIST EN IEC 62368-1:2019/A11:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
March 2020
ICS 35.020; 33.160.01
English Version
Audio/video, information and communication technology
equipment - Part 1: Safety requirements
Equipements des technologies de l'audio/vidéo, de Einrichtungen für Audio/Video-, Informations- und
l'information et de la communication - Partie 1 : Exigences Kommunikationstechnik - Teil 1: Sicherheitsanforderungen
de sécurité.
This amendment A11 modifies the European Standard EN IEC 62368-1:2020; it was approved by CENELEC on 2020-01-06. 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.
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 amendment 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.
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EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020 (E)
European foreword
This document (EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020) has been prepared by CLC/TC 108X "Safety
of electronic equipment within the fields of Audio/Video, Information Technology and
Communication Technology".
This document amends EN IEC 62368-1:2020.
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which this document has to (dop) 2021-01-06
be implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national (dow) 2023-01-06
standards conflicting with this document
have to be withdrawn
Clauses, subclauses, notes, tables, figures and annexes which are additional to those in
IEC 62368-1:2018 are prefixed “Z”.
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EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020 (E)
1 Modification to Clause 3
Replace 3.3.19 of IEC 62368-1 with the following definitions:
3.3.19 Sound exposure
3.3.19.1
momentary exposure level, MEL
metric for estimating 1 s sound exposure level from the HD 483-1 S2 test signal applied to both
channels, based on EN 50332-1:2013, 4.2.
Note 1 to entry: MEL is measured as A-weighted levels in dB.
Note 2 to entry: See B.3 of EN 50332-3:2017 for additional information.
3.3.19.2
calculated sound dose, CSD
one week rolling estimate of sound exposure expressed in percent of the maximum regarded as
safe
Note 1 to entry: See B.4 of EN 50332-3:2017 for additional information.
3.3.19.3
sound exposure, E
A-weighted sound pressure (p) squared and integrated over a stated period of time, T
2
Note 1 to entry: The SI unit is Pa s.

3.3.19.4
sound exposure level, SEL
, typically the 1 kHz
logarithmi
...

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020
01-julij-2020
Oprema za avdio/video, informacijsko in komunikacijsko tehnologijo - 1. del:
Varnostne zahteve
Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment - Part 1: Safety
requirements
Einrichtungen für Audio/Video-, Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik - Teil 1:
Sicherheitsanforderungen
Equipements des technologies de l'audio/vidéo, de l'information et de la communication -
Partie 1 : Exigences de sécurité.
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020
ICS:
33.160.01 Avdio, video in avdiovizualni Audio, video and audiovisual
sistemi na splošno systems in general
35.020 Informacijska tehnika in Information technology (IT) in
tehnologija na splošno general
SIST EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
March 2020
ICS 35.020; 33.160.01
English Version
Audio/video, information and communication technology
equipment - Part 1: Safety requirements
Equipements des technologies de l'audio/vidéo, de Einrichtungen für Audio/Video-, Informations- und
l'information et de la communication - Partie 1 : Exigences Kommunikationstechnik - Teil 1: Sicherheitsanforderungen
de sécurité.
This amendment A11 modifies the European Standard EN IEC 62368-1:2020; it was approved by CENELEC on 2020-01-06. 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.
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 amendment 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 62368-1:2020/A11:2020 E

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SIST EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020
EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020 (E)
European foreword
This document (EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020) has been prepared by CLC/TC 108X "Safety
of electronic equipment within the fields of Audio/Video, Information Technology and
Communication Technology".
This document amends EN IEC 62368-1:2020.
The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which this document has to (dop) 2021-01-06
be implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national (dow) 2023-01-06
standards conflicting with this document
have to be withdrawn
Clauses, subclauses, notes, tables, figures and annexes which are additional to those in
IEC 62368-1:2018 are prefixed “Z”.
2

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SIST EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020
EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020 (E)
1 Modification to Clause 3
Replace 3.3.19 of IEC 62368-1 with the following definitions:
3.3.19 Sound exposure
3.3.19.1
momentary exposure level, MEL
metric for estimating 1 s sound exposure level from the HD 483-1 S2 test signal applied to both
channels, based on EN 50332-1:2013, 4.2.
Note 1 to entry: MEL is measured as A-weighted levels in dB.
Note 2 to entry: See B.3 of EN 50332-3:2017 for additional information.
3.3.19.2
calculated sound dose, CSD
one week rolling estimate of sound exposure expressed in percent of the maximum regarded as
safe
Note 1 to entry: See B.4 of EN 50332-3:2017 for additional information.
3.3.19.3
sound exposure, E
A-weighted sound pressure (p) squared and integrated over a stated period of time, T
2
Note 1 to entry: The SI unit is Pa s.

3.3.19.4
sound exposure level, SEL
, typically the 1 kHz
logarithmi
...