Where IEC (draft) standards cannot be aligned to CENELEC's stakeholders' needs (including but not limited to the need for compliance to the European regulatory framework), CENELEC may decide to develop common modifications through starting a corresponding New Work Item (see IR2 clause 2.14) in order to amend an IEC (draft) standard. Common modifications to an international standard could also mean deleting parts of it.
1.1 In line with the Frankfurt Agreement (FA), CENELEC should undertake all necessary actions during the development of IEC standards to allow as many identical adoptions of IEC standards as possible without the need to develop common modifications.
From the time the first committee draft of the future international standard is circulated at IEC level (IEC CD stage), the relevant CENELEC Technical Body (TB) should encourage European experts to identify and bring forward any specific European requirements (e.g. linked to EU regulation) in IEC TBs with the aim to have them taken into account in the IEC standard.
1.2 In case this is not possible at IEC and/or as soon as the need for common modifications has been identified, the relevant CENELEC TB can decide on the creation of common modifications, thereby requesting CCMC to create a corresponding Work Item amending the IEC standard with a European Amendment, i.e. EN IEC 6XXXX:YYYY/A1X:20XX (e.g. EN IEC 61314:2018/A11:2019). The Technical Board has developed a ‘Matrix of responsibilities’ which describes different roles and tasks depending on the IEC standard’s development stage when the common modifications are requested. This leads to different possibilities described in the next sections.
1.3 If the request for common modifications is introduced up to 2 weeks before the start of the IEC CD, the following actions are needed (see Slide 1):
1.4 If the request for common modifications is introduced between 2 weeks before the start of the CDV vote and the end of the CDV vote, the following actions are needed (see Slide 2):
Following this situation there is a risk that the common modifications will be de-synchronized and therefore not in parallel with the EN IEC development process and eventually the publication.
1.5 If the request for common modifications is introduced between the end of the CDV vote and the end of the FDIS vote, the following actions are needed (see Slide 3):
In this situation the development of common modifications will be de-synchronized from the EN IEC development process and final publication. To mitigate this, the Technical Body and BT could decide that the EN IEC publication should be put in standby until the common modifications are at the same development stage.
1.6 If the request for common modifications is introduced after the date of availability (dav) of the EN IEC, the following actions are needed (see Slide 4):
The resulting European Amendment (common modification) is offered to IEC as a European Work Item (EWI) for possibly adapting the IEC standard through the IEC review process (as described in the Day-to-day management of the Frankfurt Agreement).
In case the EN IEC responds to a Standardization Request (SReq) by the European Commission and/or is intended for citation in OJEU, the process to request common modifications follows the same steps as described in section 1. During the development, the amendment for common modifications together with the EN IEC standard is sent to the HAS Consultants or to the EC for an assessment. Further information on harmonized standards can be found in the page European Standards for citation in the Official Journal.
3.1 In case the Technical Body (TB) needs to include only the Annex ZZ and Annex ZA without common modifications to the text of the EN IEC, the TB should follow the principles described in the Matrix of responsibilities. Adding only the Annex ZZ and Annex ZA to the international standard is not considered a common modification since they do not change the technical content of a standard.
3.2 From the creation of the parallel project for the EN IEC by CCMC until 2 weeks before the start of the CDV, the following actions are needed (see Slide 5):
In this case the CENELEC ENQ will be in parallel with the IEC CDV and include the Annex Z and Annex ZA.
3.3 If the request for inclusion of the Annex ZZ and Annex ZA is provided between 2 weeks before the start of the CDV vote and 1 week before the start of the FDIS vote, the following actions are needed (see Slide 6):
Following this situation there is a risk that the Amendment (A1X) will be de-synchronized and therefore not in parallel with the EN IEC development process and eventually the publication.
3.4 If the request for inclusion of the Annex ZZ and Annex ZA is provided between 1 week before the start of the FDIS and the end of the FDIS, the following actions are needed (see Slide 7):
In this situation the development of the Amendment (A1X) will be de-synchronized from the EN IEC development process and final publication. To mitigate this, the Technical Body could decide that the EN IEC publication should be put in standby until the common modifications are at the same development stage.
3.5 If the request for inclusion of the Annex ZZ and Annex ZA is provided after the EN IEC availability (dav) (see Slide 8):