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Publication CODE Title
NBN EN 60446:2007 (2013-11) BASIC AND SAFETY PRINCIPLES FOR MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE, MARKING AND IDENTIFICATION IDENTIFICATION OF CONDUCTORS BY COLOURS OR ALPHANUMERICS
 
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Description
Has the status of a basic safety publication in accordance with the principles given in IEC Guide 104 and ISO/IEC Guide 51. Provides general rules for the use of certain colours or numerals to identify conductors with the aim of avoiding ambiguity and ensuring safe operation. These conductors may be applied in cables or cores, busbars, electrical equipment and installations. This edition has significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition. This includes addition of subclauses 5.3.4 to 5.3.6 - Use of bi-colour combinations, addition of subclause 6.2 - Identification of certain designated conductors, and addition of a new Annex A (informative) 'Identification of certain designated conductors by means of colour code and alphanumeric'.
Class  C104  (GENERAL MARKINGS - LABELS)
Available files
ATTENTION: Belgian registered standards (NBN EN or NBN HD) are generally only available in English or French. Only the cover page is translated and the document itself is in English or in French.

Very important notice: 98% of the text of the NBN EN 55XXX, NBN EN 6XXXX comes from the IEC text which is NOT included. This text can be ordered here: IEC 60446:2007. For the series NBN EN 50XXX, the standards are however complete.

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Status
Status Registered trilingual Belgian standard EN or FR or DE
Situation Withdrawn
Replaced by  NBN EN 60445:2011
Replaces  NBN EN 60446:1999
Origin
Committee 16
BASIC AND SAFETY PRINCIPLES FOR MAN-MACHINE INTERFACE, MARKING AND IDENTIFICATION
Responsible Monsieur TOLLET Philippe
B-1030  BRUXELLES - BRUSSEL
Approval
BEC Approval 2007-06-01
NBN Approval 2007-10-05
Registration 76014
Numbers identifying the european directives 2006/95/EC  (Low Voltage Directive (2006/95/EC (Ex 73/23/EC (LVD 5)))
ICS-Code (International Standards Classification) 29.020 , 01.070
NBN Status New
Date of ratification (d.o.r.) 2013-11-01
Date of availability (d.a.v.) 2013-11-01
Date of announcement (d.o.a.) 2007-09-01
Date of publication (d.o.p.) 2008-03-01
Date of withdrawal former edition (d.o.w.) 2010-06-01
Date of cessation of conformity (d.o.c.) 2010-06-01
Correspondences with international standards
Relation International standard Date
is identical to EN 60446:2007 2007-07-04
is identical to IEC 60446:2007/ed. 4.0 2007-05-09
Relations to belgian/foreign publications
Type Origin Code Date
Document Foreign IEC Guide 104
Document Foreign ISO/IEC Guide 51