Joint draft standards

We are consulting on 37 Australian/New Zealand adoptions of IEC standards and amendments and one revision of an existing joint AS/NZS standard. The proposed AS/NZS standards were prepared by Joint Technical Committee EL-002 Safety of household and similar electrical appliances and small power transformers and power supplies.
– Australia and New Zealand have input via EL-002 throughout the development process of the relevant ‘parent standards’ at IEC level. This ensures the health and safety of citizens in both countries.
– Maintaining pace with the latest international best practices and requirements will reduce the risks to the public and workers using electrical appliances.
– The proposed adoptions of relevant IEC publications for electrical appliances are either identical adoptions or modified adoptions which include Australian and New Zealand national variations.
– For the revision of AS/NZS 3160:2009, we are seeking public comments on whether this standard is still required for equipment not covered by AS/NZS 62841 series. If the standard is no longer needed, the new edition of AS/NZS 3160 will not be published.

We are consulting on a draft joint Australian/New Zealand standard, AS/NZS 62841.2.22:202X Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery – Safety – Part 2.22: Particular requirements for hand-held cut-off machines.

The proposed standard was prepared by Australian/New Zealand Joint Technical Committee EL-002 Safety of household and similar electrical appliances and small power transformers and power supplies. 

– Australia and New Zealand have input via EL-002 throughout the development process of the relevant ‘parent standards’ at IEC level. This ensures the health and safety of citizens in both countries. 
– Maintaining pace with the latest international best practices and requirements will reduce the risks to the public and workers using electrical appliances.
– The proposed standard is an identical adoption of IEC 62841-2-2, Ed.1.0:2025.

The objective of this document is to specify requirements for packaged sterile rubber gloves intended for use in surgical procedures to protect the patient and the user from cross-contamination.

This document is an adoption with national modifications and has been reproduced from ISO 10282:2023, Single-use sterile rubber surgical gloves — Specification. The modifications are set out in national variations boxes which give instructions where the ISO text is to be modified for use in Australia. Due to ISO copyright policy it is not possible to directly modify the ISO content.

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The objective of this document is to specify requirements for packaged sterile, or bulked non-sterile, rubber gloves intended for use in medical examinations and diagnostic or therapeutic procedures to protect the patient and the user from cross-contamination.

This document is an adoption with national modifications, and has been reproduced from, ISO 11193‑1:2020, Single-use medical examination gloves — Part 1: Specification for gloves made from rubber latex or rubber solution. The modifications are set out in national variations boxes which give instructions where the ISO text is to be modified for use in Australia. Due to ISO copyright policy it is not possible to directly modify the ISO content.

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The objective of this document is to provide a method for determining the flat crush resistance of corrugating medium.

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The objective of this document is to provide a method for determining the flat crush resistance of corrugating medium.

This document is an adoption with national modifications, and has been reproduced from, ISO 7263‑2:2018, Corrugating medium — Determination of the flat crush resistance after laboratory fluting - Part 2: B-flute. The modifications are set out in national variations boxes which give instructions where the ISO text is to be modified for use in Australia and New Zealand. Due to ISO copyright policy it is not possible to directly modify the ISO content.

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This Amendment applies to the following elements:
(a) Front cover
(b) Preface
(c) Amendment 2

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This Amendment applies to the following elements:
(a) Front cover
(b) Preface
(c) Amendment 2

The secretariat of this committee is managed by Standards Australia. Please see the attached document on how to access public comment drafts and submitting comments via the Standards Australia Public Commenting Portal, Connect.

This Amendment applies to the following elements:
(a) Front cover
(b) Preface
(c) Amendment 2

The secretariat of this committee is managed by Standards Australia. Please see the attached document on how to access public comment drafts and submitting comments via the Standards Australia Public Commenting Portal, Connect.

This Amendment applies to the following elements:
(a) Front cover
(b) Preface
(c) Amendment 1 (new)

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The objective of this document is that this part of IEC 61347 specifies safety requirements for starting devices (starters other than glow starters and ignitors) for fluorescent and other discharge lamps for use on AC supplies up to 1 000 V at 50 Hz or 60 Hz which produce starting pulses not greater than 100 kV and which are used in combination with lamps and controlgear covered in IEC 60081, IEC 60188, IEC 60192, IEC 60662, IEC 60901, IEC 61167, IEC 61195, IEC 61199, IEC 61347-2-8 and IEC 61347-2-9.
This document does not apply to glow starters or starting devices which are incorporated in discharge lamps or which are manually operated.
NOTE 1 Glow starters are dealt with in IEC 60155.

NOTE 2 Performance requirements are given in IEC 60927.

This document is an adoption with national modifications, and has been reproduced from, IEC 61347-2-1:2024, Controlgear for electric light sources - Safety - Part 2-1: Particular requirements - Starting devices (other than glow starters). The modifications are additional requirements and are set out in national variation boxes (NVBs) which give instructions where the content is to be modified for use in Australia and New Zealand. For copyright reasons, it is not possible to directly modify the international content.
As this document has been reproduced from an international document, a comma is to be read as a full point when referring to a decimal marker/the following apply:
(a) In the source text “this {how the document refers to itself in the Scope}” is to be read as “this document”.
(b) A comma is to be read as a full point when referring to a decimal marker.

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The objective of this document is to specify safety requirements for electronic controlgear for highfrequency operation of tubular cold-cathode discharge lamps used in signs and luminous discharge tube installations and operating with an output voltage exceeding 1 000 V but not exceeding 10 000 V for direct connection to DC or AC supply voltages not exceeding 1 000 V (at 50 Hz or 60 Hz in case of alternating current).
NOTE 1 Historically, such types of controlgear were referred to as invertors or convertors.

This document applies for controlgear of type A and controlgear of type B, which are specified as follows:
– Type A: controlgear operating within the frequency range 20 kHz to 50 kHz, and having an output voltage not exceeding 5 000 V peak between terminals, with a maximum output current limited to 35 mA (RMS) and 50 mA (peak value) and a supply voltage not exceeding 250 V.
NOTE 2 The output current of a type A unit can be considered as not presenting an electric shock hazard due to the limits on the current and frequency range.

– Type B: controlgear operating within the frequency range 10 kHz to 100 kHz and having a no-load output voltage not exceeding 10 000 V between terminals or not exceeding 5 000 V to earth, with a maximum output current limited to 200 mA (RMS) and 400 mA (peak value).

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The objective of this document is to specify safety requirements for ballasts, excluding resistance types, for use on AC supplies up to 1 000 V at 50 Hz or 60 Hz, associated with fluorescent lamps with or without pre-heated cathodes operated with or without a starter or starting device and having rated powers, dimensions and characteristics as specified in IEC 60081 and IEC 60901.
This document applies to complete ballasts and to their component parts such as reactors, transformers and capacitors. Ballasts for conventional operation of lamps at mains frequency are covered, while AC supplied electronic ballasts for high-frequency operation are excluded.
NOTE 1 AC supplied electronic ballasts for high-frequency operation are specified in IEC 61347‑2‑3.

NOTE 2 Performance requirements are the subject of IEC 60921.

This document is an adoption with national modifications, and has been reproduced from, IEC 61347‑2‑8:2024, Controlgear for electric light sources - Safety - Part 2-8: Particular requirements - Ballasts for fluorescent lamps. The modifications are additional requirements and are set out in national variation boxes (NVBs) which give instructions where the content is to be modified for use in Australia and New Zealand. For copyright reasons, it is not possible to directly modify the international content.

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The objective of this document is to specify applications for control gear and control devices for control by digital signals of electronic lighting equipment.

This document is identical to, and has been reproduced from, IEC 62386-105:2024, Digital addressable lighting interface — Part 105: Particular requirements for control gear and control devices - Firmware transfer.

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The objective of this document is to specify requirements and tests for cable trunking systems (CTS) and cable ducting systems (CDS) intended for the accommodation, and where necessary for the electrically protective separation, of insulated conductors, cables and possibly other electrical equipment in electrical and/or communication systems installations. The maximum voltage of these installations is 1 000 V AC and 1 500 V DC.

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he objective of this document is to specify how to use the Portable Document Format (PDF) specified in ISO 32000‑2 to construct accessible digital documents using PDF technology.
This document does not specify —
(a) processes for converting paper or electronic documents to the PDF/UA format;
(b) technical design, user interface, implementation, or operational details of presentation;
(c) physical methods of storing these documents such as media and storage conditions;
(d) required computer hardware and/or operating systems;
(e) requirements specific to content (beyond facilitating programmatic access and textual representation);
(f) requirements applying to specific classes (e.g. invoices, reports, etc.) of documents.
This document is identical to, and has been reproduced from, ISO 14289‑2:2024, Document management applications — Electronic document file format enhancement for accessibility — Part 2: Use of ISO 32000‑2 (PDF/UA-2).

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The objectives of this document are to —
(a) define a reference land administration domain model (LADM) covering basic information-related components of land registration (including elements above and below the surface of the Earth);
(b) provide an abstract, conceptual model with three packages and one sub-package related to:
(i) parties (people and organizations);
(ii) basic administrative units, rights, responsibilities and restrictions (RRRs);
(iii) spatial units (parcels, and the legal space of buildings and utility networks and other geometry) with a sub-package on surveying and spatial representation (geometry and topology);
(c) provide terminology for land administration (LA), based on various national and international systems, that is as simple as possible in order to be useful in practice. The terminology allows a shared description of different formal or informal practices and procedures in various jurisdictions;
(d) provide a platform for comparison and monitoring that is based on indicators;
(e) provide a basis for national and regional profiles; and
(f) enable the combination of land administration information from different sources in a coherent manner.

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The objective of this document is to specify a conceptual model within the context of training data for Earth Observation (EO) Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AI/ML) that —
(a) establishes a UML model with a target of maximizing the interoperability and usability of EO imagery training data;
(b) specifies different AI/ML tasks and labels in EO in terms of supervised learning, including scene level, object level and pixel level tasks;
(c) describes the permanent identifier, version, licence, training data size, measurement or imagery used for annotation; and
(d) specifies a description of quality (e.g. training data errors, training data representativeness, quality measures) and provenance (e.g. agents who perform the labelling, labelling procedure).

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This Amendment applies to the following elements:
(a) Clauses 1.3, 3.2.3.3, 4.2.2.2, 4.2.4.2, 4.2.5, 5.2.2.1, 5.2.2.2, 5.2.4.2, 5.3.1.2.1, 5.3.1.3.8, 6.3.6.4, 7.2, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10 and 7.11
(b) Figures 2.11 and 2.12
(c) Appendix I (new)
(d) Bibliography

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