ESE EUROPEAN NATIONAL STANDARS ARE IN FORCE
AND NOT IN CONFLICT WITH EN-62305

The CENELEC Technical Board (BT) has finally put an end to a “debate” initiated by some European standardization National Committees.
For more than a year, some persons involved in Lightning Protection standardization, members of organizations and manufacturers of conventional Lightning protection systems have raised a so-called “conflict” between, on one side, the French ESE standard NF C 17-102 and similar standards in Spain, Portugal , Slovakia, etc… and, on the other side, the last CENELEC lightning protection standards EN 62 305 series (based on the IEC series). For a while, this so-called “conflict” was considered as the “ultimate” tool discovered by anti-ESE lobbyists to definitely eliminate this technology and its standards by an unfair use of the administrative procedures of CENELEC.The CENELEC BT has then been overwhelmed by an abundant literature supposedly demonstrating the urgent need to withdraw the corresponding standards.
But the CENELEC Technical Board decision No 136/013 published after its April 2010 meeting does not follow these “experts” conclusions and predications. CENELEC BT refused by two times to consider the standards as being in conflict and decided to have the national ESE standards existing providing they are clearly stating that they are dealing with different topic than EN 62305 standards series especially by making no reference to EN 62305 series.

A new version of the ESE national Standards should then be published accordingly.
CENELEC BT also proposed that the resulting E.S.E. standards should be proposed to I.E.C. as international draft standard.

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