At a meeting of the EEC Council on June 10, a decision was made to amend the technical regulation of the Customs Union “On safety of low-voltage equipment”.

Some definitions and terms have been changed (or added) such as “technical equipment that were in operation”, “Batch of technical devices”, “Household equipment”… But the most essential issue is change of the term “low-voltage equipment”.

Now (as we saw it in the draft decision) this term is defined as “Electrical equipment, for which the rated voltage (except for spark discharge impulse voltage) does not exceed 1000 V AC and 1500 V DC at all inputs and outputs”.

Some products were excluded from TR CU 004/2011 scope, such as:

– products fall under the following technical regulations: TR CU 010/2011 “On safety of machinery and equipment”, TR CU 011/2011 “Elevators safety”, TR СU 012/2011 “On safety of the Ex-equipment” excluding cables, wires, cords;

– products manufactured for internal needs (NOT intended for sale, renting, lending or leasing etc.);

– components of low-voltage equipment if they are not available to end-user as a good; – components (connectors, winding wires, circuit boards, microswitches, etc.) whose safety can only be checked as part of end device.

The list of devices subject to EAC certification was corrected:

– some products were added (automatic control devices for electrical household appliances; consoles and control panels, controllers; personal computers, including system units; cash registers, also in connection with a computer…);

– there was clarified what is office equipment (scanners, printers, copiers (incl. MFP), monitors, UPS, active acoustic, multimedia projectors…);

– some products were excluded (devices for the distribution of electrical energy, electrical devices for controlling electrical installations).

The changes come into force after 180 calendar days from the date of official publication of the decision of the EEC Council on their adoption. As of the evening of June 12, 2022, the document has not yet been published.