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Photometrics
Light for Europe
With the publication of the European standards
for outdoor lighting, e.g.
• EN 12464-2 – Lighting of Outdoor Work
Places,
• EN 13201 – Road Lighting,
• EN 12193 – Sports Lighting,
• EN 12665 – Basic Terms and Criteria for
Specifying Lighting Requirements,
• EN 13032-2 – Measurement and Presentation
of Photometric Data of Lamps and
Luminaires – Part 2: Presentation of Data
for Indoor and Outdoor Work Places,
• EN 60598-2-3 – Particular requirements –
Luminaires for road and street lighting
• EN 60529 (IP Code) – Degree of Protection
there are now uniform standards for the
most important areas of outdoor lighting in
the 30 CEN countries. These uniform standards
and regulations make an important
contribution to the harmonisation of the
diverse relevant standards and recommendations
that existed in Europe before then
with somewhat differing criteria.
Good outdoor lighting has a considerable
impact on safety, physical integrity of
life, property and our quality of life. The
geographic and demographic situations in
Europe, the growing sensitivities, mentalities
and customs as well as underlying social and
economic conditions are very diverse. That‘s
why it is understandable that the preparation
of standards for outdoor lighting has triggered
a wide array of differences of opinion
and have made compromises a necessity.
Instead of citing many details, the objective
of the relevant CEN standards committees
was mainly to develop general statements
for outdoor lighting, which planners and
operators could use as a guideline for
specific and even regional options.
Due to the different, in part traditio nal or
even well-founded experiences it is not possible
that all European standards can reach a
consensus. That includes, for instance, the
part 1 of the series of standards EN 13201
“Road Lighting”, which focuses on the
selection of the lighting class based on
structural, traffic-related and other criteria.
The classification of roads is the responsibility
of the national road authorities such
that part 1 could only be published as a
Technical Report CEN/TR 13201-1 and not
as a standard.
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1.1 The CEN countries in Europe 1) .
For key areas of application – roads, outdoor
work areas and (outdoor) sports facilities –
there are now uniform requirements for
lighting for the first time in Europe. By doing
so, it is possible to overcome the significant
differences in the previous national codes
of practice and establish prerequisites for
uniform working and visual conditions in
illuminated outdoor settings for people in
Europe.
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1) CEN stands for Comité Européen de Normalisation (European Committee for Standardization). CEN members are the national standardisation institutes of Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany,
Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain,
Czech Republic, Hungary, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Cyprus.
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