IEC 62873-1:2017/AMD1:2020

IEC 62873-1 ®
Edition 1.0 2020-11
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
A MENDMENT 1
AM ENDEMENT 1
Residual current operated circuit-breakers for household and similar use –
Part 1: Outline of blocks and modules for residual current device standards

Interrupteurs automatiques à courant différentiel résiduel pour usage
domestique et analogue –
Partie 1: Présentation des blocs et modules pour les normes des dispositifs
différentiels résiduels
IEC 62873-1:2017-01/AMD1:2020-11(en-fr)

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IEC 62873-1 ®
Edition 1.0 2020-11
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
A MENDMENT 1
AM ENDEMENT 1
Residual current operated circuit-breakers for household and similar use –

Part 1: Outline of blocks and modules for residual current device standards

Interrupteurs automatiques à courant différentiel résiduel pour usage

domestique et analogue –
Partie 1: Présentation des blocs et modules pour les normes des dispositifs

différentiels résiduels
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– 2 – IEC 62873-1:2017/AMD1:2020
 IEC 2020
FOREWORD
This amendment has been prepared by subcommittee 23E: Circuit-breakers and similar
equipment for household use, of IEC technical committee 23: Electrical accessories.
The text of this amendment is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
23E/1196/FDIS 23E/1202/RVD
Full information on the voting for the approval of this amendment can be found in the report on
voting indicated in the above table.
The committee has decided that the contents of this amendment and the base publication will
remain unchanged until the stability date indicated on the IEC website under
"http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data related to the specific publication. At this date, the
publication will be
• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
_____________
1 Scope
Add after the second paragraph the following text:
The prepared modules may be used for the preparation of standards other than those for
RCCBs, RCBOs and IEC 60755, provided that the relevance of content of the module is
carefully verified.
 IEC 2020
4.2.4 Numbering of documents and edition numbers
Replace the existing Table 1 with the following new Table 1:
Table 1 – Document numbering
Document type Example of document numbering Remarks
Outline document IEC 62873-1 –
Glossary and definitions IEC 62873-2 –
Block EXAMPLE IEC 62873, RESIDUAL
CURRENT OPERATED CIRCUIT-
BREAKERS FOR HOUSEHOLD
IEC 62873-3-X AND SIMILAR USE, IEC 62873-3-1:
Particular requirements for devices
with screwless-type terminals for
external copper conductors
Module EXAMPLE Module 50-1 2019 01
for the module that will be
introduced in 5.1, uploaded to the
Module A0-BB YYYY MM
Collaboration Platform in
January 2019.
Add after the existing Subclause 4.2.5 the following new Subclause 4.2.6:
4.2.6 Modification of a module
When an existing module needs to be revised for any reason, for example:
– modification for alignment with a published standard;
– correction of an editorial error in the module;
– improvement of the technical content of the module.
The proposed modification is introduced in a draft document and the procedure in 4.2.2 is
applied (see Figure 3).
In the event that the comments from National Committees lead to significant modifications, it
may be decided to circulate a new DC. In any case, a revised module cannot be issued in the
library of
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