Appendix A:

Overview of EMC
Standards

IEC 61000: Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) consists of 6 parts, each consisting

of several sections. Below a list is given of the sections related to power quality, as well
as some documents currently (February 1999) under development.

• Part 1: General
- Section 1: Application and interpretation of fundamental definitions and
terms.
- Section 2: Methodology for the achievement of functional safety of electrical
and electronic equipment (in preparation).
• Part 2: Environment
- Section 1: Description of the environment-Electromagnetic environment for
low-frequency conducted disturbances and signalling in power supply systems.
- Section 2: Compatibility levels for low-frequency conducted disturbances and
signalling in public supply systems.
- Section 3: Description of the environment-Radiated and non-network-fre-
quency-related conducted disturbances.
- Section 4: Compatibility levels in industrial plants for low-frequency con-
ducted disturbances.
- Section 5: Classification of electromagnetic environments.
- Section 6: Assessment of the emission levels in the power supply of industrial
plants as regards low-frequency conducted disturbances.
- Section 7: Low-frequency magnetic fields in various environments.
- Section 8: Voltage dips, short interruptions and statistical measurement
results (in preparation).
- Section 12: Compatibility levels for low-frequency conducted disturbances
and signalling in public medium-voltage power supply systems (in prepara-
tion).

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• Part 3: Limits
- Section 1: Overview of emission standards and guides (in preparation).
- Section 2: Limits for harmonic current emissions (equipment input current
~ 16A per phase).
- Section 3: Limitation of voltage fluctuations and flicker in low-voltage supply
systems for equipment with rated current ~ 16A.
- Section 4: Limitation of emission of harmonic currents in low-voltage power
supply systems for equipment with rated current greater than 16A.
- Section 5: Limitation of voltage fluctuations and flicker in low-voltage power
supply systems for equipment with rated current greater than 16 A.
- Section 6: Assessment of emission limits for distorting loads in MV and HV
power systems.
- Section 7: Assessment of emission limits for fluctuating loads in MV and HV
power systems.
- Section 8: Signalling on low-voltage electrical installations-Emission levels,
frequency bands and electromagnetic disturbance levels.
- Section 9: Limits for interharmonic current emissions (equipment with input
power ~ 16 A per phase and prone to produce interharmonics by design) (in
preparation).
- Section 10: Emission limits in the frequency range 2 ... 9 kHz (in prepara-
tion).
- Section 11: Limitation of voltage changes, voltage fluctuations and flicker in
low voltage supply systems for equipment with rated current ~ 75 A and sub-
ject to conditional connection (in preparation).
• Part 4: Testing and measurement techniques
- Section 1: Overview of immunity tests.
- Section 2: Electrostatic discharge immunity test.
- Section 3: Radiated, radio-frequency, electromagnetic field immunity test.
- Section 4: Electrical fast transient/burst immunity test.
- Section 5: Surge immunity test.
- Section 6: Immunity to conducted disturbances, induced by radio-frequency
fields.
- Section 7: General guide on harmonic distortion and interharmonics mea-
surement and instrumentation, for power supply systems and equipment con-
nected thereto.
- Section 8: Power frequency magnetic field immunity test.
- Section 9: Pulse magnetic field immunity test.
- Section 10: Damped oscillatory magnetic field immunity test.
- Section 11: Voltage dips, short interruptions and voltage variations immunity
tests.
- Section 12: Oscillatory waves immunity test.
- Section 13: Test for immunity to harmonics and interharmonics including
mains signalling at a.c. power port (in preparation).
- Section 14: Voltage fluctuations-Immunity test.
- Section 15: Flickermeter-Functional and design specifications.
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- Section 16: Test for immunity to conducted common mode disturbances in

the frequency range 0 Hz to 150 kHz.
- Section 17: Ripple on d.c. input power port, immunity test (in preparation).
- Section 20: TEM cells (in preparation).
- Section 21: Reverberation chambers (in preparation).
- Section 22: Guide on measurement methods for electromagnetic phenomena
(in preparation).
- Section 26: Calibration of probes and associated instruments for measuring
electromagnetic fields (in preparation).
- Section 27: Unbalance, immunity test (in preparation).
- Section 28: Variation of power frequency, immunity test (in preparation).
- Section 29: Voltage dips, short interruptions and voltage variations on d.c.
input power ports, immunity tests (in preparation).
- Section 30: Measurements of power quality parameters (in preparation).
- Section 31: Measurements in the frequency range 2 kHz to 9kHz (in prepara-
tion).
• Part 5: Installation and mitigation guidelines
- Section I: General considerations.
- Section 2: Earthing and cabling.
- Section 6: Mitigation of external EM influences (in preparation).
- Section 7: Degrees of protection against electromagnetic disturbances pro-
vided by enclosures (in preparation).
• Part 6: Generic standards
- Section 1: Immunity for residential, commercial and light-industrial environ-
ments.
- Section 2: Immunity for industrial environments.
- Section 4: Emission standard for industrial environments.
- Section 5: Immunity of apparatus for generating stations and high-voltage
substations (in preparation).