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International Electrotechnical Commission
Commission électrotechnique internationale

Logotype of the IEC.

Logotype of the IEC.

Abbreviation IEC
Motto "Making electrotechnology work for you"
Formation 26 June 1906
London, United Kingdom
Type Private standard-setting organization[1]
Legal status Active
Purpose Standardization for electrical technology, electronic and related.
Headquarters
Geneva, Switzerland
Location
Membership
Official languages

English, French
President
James Shannon[2]
Budget

CHF 20 Million / US$ 20.938 Million / €19.3 Million
Website www.iec.ch

The International Electrotechnical Commission[3] (IEC; in French: Commission électrotechnique internationale) is an international standards organization[4][5] that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology". IEC standards cover a vast range of technologies from power generation, transmission and distribution to home appliances and office equipment, semiconductors, fibre optics, batteries, solar energy, nanotechnology and marine energy as well as many others. The IEC also manages three global conformity assessment systems that certify whether equipment, system or components conform to its International Standards.


The IEC charter embraces all electrotechnologies including energy production and distribution, electronics, magnetics and electromagnetics, electroacoustics, multimedia, telecommunication and medical technology, as well as associated general disciplines such as terminology and symbols, electromagnetic compatibility (by its Advisory Committee on Electromagnetic Compatibility, ACEC), measurement and performance, dependability, design and development, safety and the environment.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 IEC standards


  • 3 Membership and participation


    • 3.1 Full members


    • 3.2 Associate members (limited voting and managerial rights)


    • 3.3 Affiliates




  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links


    • 6.1 Technical committees


    • 6.2 Standards and tools in database format







History


The first International Electrical Congress took place in 1881 at the International Exposition of Electricity, held in Paris. At that time the International System of Electrical and Magnetic Units was agreed to.


The International Electrotechnical Commission held its inaugural meeting on 26 June 1906, following discussions among the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and others, which began at the 1900 Paris International Electrical Congress,[citation needed] and continued with Colonel R. E. B. Crompton playing a key role. In 1906, Lord Kelvin was elected as the first President of the International Electrotechnical Commission [6].




International Electrotechnical Commission - Central Office - Geneva


The IEC was instrumental in developing and distributing standards for units of measurement, particularly the gauss, hertz, and weber. [7] It also first proposed a system of standards, the Giorgi System, which ultimately became the SI, or Système International d’unités (in English, the International System of Units).


In 1938, it published a multilingual international vocabulary to unify terminology relating to electrical, electronic and related technologies. This effort continues, and the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (the on-line version of which is known as the Electropedia) remains an important work in the electrical and electronic industries.


The CISPR (Comité International Spécial des Perturbations Radioélectriques) – in English, the International Special Committee on Radio Interference – is one of the groups founded by the IEC.


Currently, 82 countries are members while another 82 participate in the Affiliate Country Programme, which is not a form of membership but is designed to help industrializing countries get involved with the IEC. Originally located in London, the commission moved to its current headquarters in Geneva in 1948.


It has regional centres in Asia-Pacific (Singapore), Latin America (São Paulo, Brazil) and North America (Boston, United States).


Today, the IEC is the world's leading international organization in its field, and its standards are adopted as national standards by its members. The work is done by some 10,000 electrical and electronics experts from industry, government, academia, test labs and others with an interest in the subject.



IEC standards


See also: List of IEC standards

IEC standards have numbers in the range 60000–79999 and their titles take a form such as IEC 60417: Graphical symbols for use on equipment. Following the Dresden Agreement with CENELEC the numbers of older IEC standards were converted in 1997 by adding 60000, for example IEC 27 became IEC 60027. Standards of the 60000 series are also found preceded by EN to indicate that the IEC standard is also adopted by CENELEC as a European standard; for example IEC 60034 is also available as EN 60034.


The IEC cooperates closely with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). In addition, it works with several major standards development organizations, including the IEEE with which it signed a cooperation agreement in 2002, which was amended in 2008 to include joint development work.


Standards developed jointly with ISO such as ISO/IEC 26300 (Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) v1.0), ISO/IEC 27001 (Information technology, Security techniques, Information security management systems, Requirements), and CASCO ISO/IEC 17000 series, carry the acronym of both organizations. The use of the ISO/IEC prefix covers publications from ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 - Information Technology, as well as conformity assessment standards developed by ISO CASCO and IEC CAB (Conformity Assessment Board). Other standards developed in cooperation between IEC and ISO are assigned numbers in the 80000 series, such as IEC 82045-1.


IEC standards are also being adopted by other certifying bodies such as BSI (United Kingdom), CSA (Canada), UL & ANSI/INCITS (United States), SABS (South Africa), SAI (Australia), SPC/GB (China) and DIN (Germany). IEC standards adopted by other certifying bodies may have some noted differences from the original IEC standard.[8]



Membership and participation






  Full members

  Associate members

  Affiliates



The IEC is made up of members, called national committees, and each NC represents its nation's electrotechnical interests in the IEC. This includes manufacturers, providers, distributors and vendors, consumers and users, all levels of governmental agencies, professional societies and trade associations as well as standards developers from national standards bodies. National committees are constituted in different ways. Some NCs are public sector only, some are a combination of public and private sector, and some are private sector only. About 90% of those who prepare IEC standards work in industry.


IEC Member countries include:[9]



Full members










Associate members (limited voting and managerial rights)


Source:[11]












Affiliates


In 2001 and in response to calls from the WTO to open itself to more developing nations, the IEC launched the Affiliate Country Programme to encourage developing nations to become involved in the Commission's work or to use its International Standards. Countries signing a pledge to participate in the work and to encourage the use of IEC Standards in national standards and regulations are granted access to a limited number of technical committee documents for the purposes of commenting. In addition, they can select a limited number of IEC Standards for their national standards' library. Countries as of 2011 participating in the Affiliate Country Programme are:[14]












See also







  • International Organisation for Standardisation

  • List of IEC standards

  • List of IEC Technical Committees



References





  1. ^ International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) (PDF), Paris: International OECD Publishing, 2016.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ IEC Officers, CH: International Electrotechnical Commission, 2017


  3. ^ "IEC Statutes and Rules of Procedure" (PDF). IEC. 2011-07-01. p. 30.


  4. ^ IEC Organization and funding, CH: International Electrotechnical Commission, 2017


  5. ^ International Geneva, Facts and Figures (PDF), CH: Swiss Government, 2017


  6. ^ The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, CUP 2011,
    ISBN 1108027180, 9781108027182


  7. ^ Electrical Engineering for Non-Electrical Engineers. ISBN 1482228831.


  8. ^ IEC Webstore | Welcome. Webstore.iec.ch.


  9. ^ IEC full and associate members


  10. ^ "The IEC and NEMA", nema.org, accessed 2009-04-12


  11. ^ IEC membership levels


  12. ^ abcd Formerly participating in the affiliate programme.


  13. ^ "Morocco, the 5th largest African economy, joins the IEC". IEC. 27 July 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2010.


  14. ^ IEC affiliates




External links




  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata

  • IEC Webstore

  • Free online multilingual dictionary of 20 000 electrical and electronic terms

  • IEC System of Conformity Assessment for Electrotechnical Equipment and Components

  • IEC System for quality assessment of electronic components and associated materials and processes

  • IEC Scheme for certification to standards for electrical equipment for explosive atmospheres

  • IEC System for Certification to Standards Relating to Equipment for Use in Renewable Energy Applications

  • List of IEC Technical Committees on IEC Official Website

  • All IEC standards available in English and Russian (translation) languages, Standards of International Electrotechnical Commitee [sic]



Technical committees



  • Graphical Symbols

  • Hydraulic Turbines

  • Switchgear

  • Dependability

  • Power Systems Management

  • Fibre Optics

  • Multimedia



Standards and tools in database format



  • International Electrotechnical Vocabulary

  • IEC Glossary

  • IEC 60061: Lamp caps, lampholders and gauges

  • IEC 60417 - ISO 7000: Graphical Symbols for Use on Equipment

  • IEC 60617: Graphical Symbols for Diagrams










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