81/256/INF

For IEC use only

2004-09-17

INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE No. 81: LIGHTNING PROTECTION

Secretary’s report on the progress of the work since the last meeting
(to be discussed under draft agenda item 5 at forthcoming TC 81 meeting to be held in Seoul 20th and 21st
October 2004)

Time elapsed since October 2003 was mainly spent in implementation of decision taken at TC 81 meeting in
Palma de Mallorca (29 September 2003) as follows:

1) Decision 1 (relevant to IEC 62305-1)

To prepare a new Annex E to IEC 62305-1 to be circulated as DC asking NCs for comments and
opinion to attach this new Annex to IEC 62305-1 and delete the relevant items from IEC 62305-3
and IEC 62305-4.

As reported in 81/237/RVC the 81/216/CDV was approved with great majority of 95% P-members in
favour (The voting result indicates acceptance also for CENELEC).
The proposal for the new Annex E circulated as 81/239/DC was approved. Comments received,
circulated as 81/242/INF, were considered by WG 8 at its meeting in Roma (July 2004) together with
comments received to 81/216/CDV (see 81/237/RVC). The relevant revised compilation of comments -
81/242A/INF and 81/237A/RVC – circulated in August 2004. Work for preparation of the updated draft of
IEC 62305-1 FDIS by Editing Committee is in progress. FDIS will circulate by 2004-12.

2) Decisions 2 and 3 (relevant to IEC 62305-4)

Clause 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 modified according to French proposal will be transferred in an
informative Annex.
A JTF SC 37A/ TC 64 / TC 81 will be set up to consider technical information of clause 7.1 to 7.3
not included in the Annex for future inclusion in the standard.
The document IEC 81/212/CD finalized according to the comments received by NCs will circulate
as CDV

The improved version of 81/212/CD with a new informative Annex D circulated as 81/238/CDV at 2003-
12-19.
As reported in 81/243/RVC the CDV was approved with great majority of 86% P-members in favour (The
voting result indicates acceptance also for CENELEC).
The JTF SC 37A/ TC 64 / TC 81 met in Regensburg on 2004-02: technical suggestions achieved were
formally forwarded as comments to 81/238/CDV by some NCs. Comments received were considered by
WG 3 at its meeting in Roma (July 2004). The relevant revised compilation of comments - 81/243A/RVC
– circulated in August 2004. Work for preparation of the updated draft of IEC 62305-4 FDIS by Editing
Committee is in progress. FDIS will circulate by 2004-12.

3) Decision 4 (relevant to IEC 62305-3)

The document IEC 81/214/CD finalized according to the comments received by NCs and
including Annexes E and F will circulate as CDV .

The improved version of 81/214/CD circulated as 81/240/CDV at 2004-01-09.

As reported in 81/247/RVC the CDV was approved with great majority of 77% P-members in favour. (The
voting result indicates acceptance also for CENELEC, but some common modifications are needed).
Comments received were considered by WG 8 at its meeting in Roma (July 2004). The relevant
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compilation of comments - 81/243A/RVC – circulated in August 2004. Work for preparation of the updated
draft of IEC 62305-3 FDIS by Editing Committee is in progress. FDIS will circulate by 2004-12.

4) Decision 5 (relevant to IEC 62305-2)

The document IEC 81/213/CD finalized according to the comments received by NCs will circulate
as CDV.

The improved version of 81/213/CD circulated as 81/241A/CDV at 2004-01-16.

As reported in 81/247/RVC the CDV was approved with great majority of 73% P-members in favour. (The
voting result indicates acceptance also for CENELEC). Comments received were considered by WG 9 at
its meeting in Roma (July 2004). The relevant compilation of comments - 81/246/RVC – circulated in
August 2004. Work for preparation of the updated draft of IEC 62305-2 FDIS by Editing Committee is in
progress. FDIS will circulate by 2004-12.

5) Decision 6 (relevant to maintenance programme)

The maintenance programme will be updated according to the programme of work.

Maintenance programme was updated.

6) Decision 7 (relevant to programme of work)

The timing of work to be done is fixed according the following table.

Target dates for preparation of IEC 62305-5 were agreed with the Convenor of WG 10 as proposed at TC
81 Palma de Mallorca meeting:
− CD 2004-06
− CDV 2005-06
− FDIS 2006-06
− IS 2006-10
WG 10 prepared the first draft of IEC 62305-5 which circulated as 81/245/CD at 2004-07-02 with close for
comments by 2004-10-08.

7) Decision 8 (relevant to circulation of 64/1292/CD)

Members of TC 81 are invited to send their comments to the secretary by 2003-10-15.The

Secretary will forward comments to TC 64 Secretary.

After TC 81 meeting in Palma de Mallorca Secretary of TC 64 was informed that TC 81 would like to
submit comments on 64/1292/CD and was asked to delay the circulation of the CC document until 30
October 2003 in order to allow the inclusion of the TC81 comments,
TC 64 informed TC 81 that comments were discussed and approved at meeting of TC 64 in Northbrook,
23rd - 25th September.
Moreover TC 64 decided that, in opposite to Part 1 to 3 of IEC 60479, this part should not become a
Basic Safety Publication but only a Technical Report.

8) Decision 9 (relevant to overlapping with IEC TC 64)

The Secretary will ask SC 37 A and TC 64 to set up as soon as possible a JWG to find a solution
to avoid overlapping items.
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Following the request of TC 81 to SC 37a and to TC 64, this matter was informally discussed by the
relevant TC officers in Regensburg in connection with the JTF SC 37A, TC 64 and TC 81 meeting. It was
agreed on:
– the need to set up as soon as possible a JWG to find a solution to avoid overlapping items,
– to re-establish for this purpose the sleeping JWG 64-81 extending it to SC 37A,
– action for such re-establishment will be done by TC 64.

Moreover, following the decision taken at its meeting 119 (Clearwater Beach, Florida, 2004-02-18/19),
the Standardization Management Board requested that “the re-established Joint Working Group
37A/64/81 have representation by the Secretaries of the three committees involved. This JWG,
furthermore, should discuss on the basis of the following:

a) TC 81 deals with requirements for design and installations of Lightning Protection Systems for
structure, building, electrical and telecommunication lines both for direct and indirect effects.
b) TC 64 deals with selection and installation of electrical equipment when the structures are not
stressed by lightning.
c) SC 37A deals with requirements of characteristic, method of tests and selection of SPDs.”

The basis for work given by SMB fix the boundary for the activity of each involved TC, are the guideline to
be followed for future work and asks for re-arrangement of involved publications by means of a migration
plan of relevant matters to be implemented during the maintenance cycles.

It is in order to implement the SMB decision Secretariat of TC 81 proposed:

• to re-establish the Joint Working Group 37A/64/81 having representation by the Secretaries and
the WG conveners (not only) of the three committees involved .
• to held as soon as possible a meeting of JWG in order to start the discussion on the migration plan
of overlapping items in existing documents according to SMB decision and to agree on a programme
of work of the three committees involved able to avoid future overlapping.
• to implement such a proposal by TC 64 who has the convenor ship of JWG to be re-established.
• to address future publications and maintenance cycle of our TCs according to the decision of SMB.

9) Decision 10 (relevant to Strategic Policy Statement)

SPS will be updated according to decision taken at the meeting.

SPS was updated and circulated as SMB/2680/R at 2003-11-19.

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