The Dutch city of Delft hosted last 9-10 May the 55th meeting of CENELEC Technical Committee 210 (CLC/TC210), chaired by John Davies, with Nyomee Hla-Shwe Tun as secretary.
The previous meeting’s minutes were approved (document TC210/Sec0982/RM).
A decision was made to extend the scope of working group 14, which henceforth also covers the formulation of parts of the CLC/TC210 standards required for citation in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) under the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requisite of the directives (annexes ZZ, annex ZA and preamble), and to proceed to draw up the list of harmonised CLC/TC210 standards that are candidates for citation in the OJEU.
Document TC210/Sec/0972/INF, created based on contributions meanwhile received in TC210, contains the list of potential EMC standards in the scope of the Radio Directive that are candidates for citation in the OJEU. It will be up to the national committees to obtain the final list, proposing the standards they believe are missing. Document TC210/Sec/0983/PW contains the exhaustive list of regulatory references of EMC standards that are being dealt with (about 287). The ZZ annexes are being developed jointly with the European Commission, which has not facilitated obtainment of a final version. Among the TC210 standards with the radio component, a set of paradigmatic standards will be selected for presentation to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre for orientation purposes.
A decision was made to ask the Administrative Cooperation Group (ADCO) to list its specific concerns regarding the 1-6 GHz band, given that the costs for industry of supplementary tests above 1 GHz must always be grounded, for example, by specific cases of interference or results of market control campaigns. ADCO gave preliminary notice to industry that an upcoming campaign will focus on powerline communications (PLC), with the new standard already in place.
The work regarding PLC multiple-input multiple-output technology still awaits approval of the new World Internet Project. The document prEN50561-2 will be published as a technical report, as it did not obtain approval in the public inquiry.
Given the considerable potencies that wireless power transmission can reach, the following will be taken into consideration: studies by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); the memorandum of understanding between the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT)/Electronic Communications Committee (ECC) and the European Commission (EC); and ETSI TR 103 409 with regard to frequency limits for that purpose. Work continues on development of EMC in the 2-150 kHz band, with changes in the levels somewhat contested by Japan.
Information about the so-called 80/80 rule of the International Special Committee on Radio Interference will be placed in an informative annex of the standards.
Emission problems verified to have occurred with decorative incandescent bulbs (imitating those of Edison, with very high power consumption for the amount of lighting they provide), raised to EMC Working Party level, was an issue considered of minor importance when compared, for example, to that of switched sources (risk assessment). It is a problem that will be resolved by technological evolution, with the development of new decorative LED lights, which are advantageously replacing decorative incandescent bulbs (same decorative effect and much less consumption.
The next meeting will be held in December, as usual in Brussels. Regarding the following meeting, on 15-16 May 2018, it was announced that the sector standardisation body (ONS-ANACOM) was available to organise it in Lisbon, to be confirmed as soon as possible with the CLC/TC210 secretariat.
