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NEC Ethiopia By: Abreham Teka, NEC Secretary, Electrical Standards Officer at Ethiopian Standards Agency (ESA) IEC Affiliate Forum New Delhi, India

Ethiopia Ethiopia is a country located in the Horn of Africa

bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south

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Ethiopia is the tenth largest by area in Africa, occupying 1,122,000 km2

Population

Ethiopia is the second-most populous nation on the African continent, with over 80,000,000 inhabitants.

Climate

Ethiopia is in the tropical zone lying between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer. It has three different climate zones according to elevation: Tropical zone below 1830 meters, Subtropical zone 1830 - 2440 meters and Cool zone above 2440 meters


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Topography Ethiopia is a land of wonder and enchantment, a land of contrasts and surprises, of remote and wild places. There are 25 mountains whose picks rise over 4000 metres and the hottest place in the world Dalol is found in Ethiopia.

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Language Ethiopia is a multi ethnic state with a great variety of languages spoken in the country. There are as many as 84 languages with 200 dialects. The main ones are Amharic, Oromiffa and Tigrygna. Ethiopia has its own Alphabet and Numeric.


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Capital city Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa named as among the top 10 cities to visit in 2013. Addis Ababa is the location of several global organizations which includes African Union, the Pan African Chamber of Commerce, UNECA and the African Standby Force etc…

African Union

Ethiopian Standard Agency(ESA)

Ethiopian Standard Agency (ESA) is a governmental non-profitable organization and the sole National Standards Body (NSB) which represents Ethiopian interest in economical, social and environmental aspects with regard to standard benefits across international and regional arena

Besides working with international bodies like IEC and regional standard bodies, ESA also work closely with different national standard bodies under bilateral agreements


Cont.… ESA has undergone several structural and name

changes since its first birth back in 1970, and ESA was established as per the latest restructuring, as per Ethiopian Council of Minister Regulation No. 193/2010 in 2010.

ESA is accountable to Ministry of Science and Technology, and has a National Standardization council which work together with the agency, the member of the council is drawn from appropriate Governmental and other bodies and designated by the government.

ESA has 97 TC, of which every single TC is a composition of different experts from different Gov & NGO organizations.


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Ethiopian Standards Agency has three core business areas: Standard formulation (Development), Training and Technical support Information and documentation Organizing and disseminating

standards, Conformity assessment procedures and Technical regulation for the customers.


NEC Ethiopia

National Electrotehcnical Committee of Ethiopia, NECE, was established in November 2012 under Ethiopian Standard Agency with an expert group from five different organization: 1. Ethiopian Standard Agency (ESA)

Mr. Abreham 2. Addis Ababa university Dr. Getachew


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3. Ethiopian Electric Power corporation (EEPCO) Mr. Kebede

4. Minstry of Energy (MoE) Mr. Kahisu

5. Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise (ECAE) Mr. Mulugeta


TCs under NECE I. TC 61, Electrical accessories, lamps and related equipment

Electrical accessories such as conduits, connecting devices, plugs, socket-outlets, couplers, switches, fuses and other over current protection devices, switch gear and control gear, relays, lamps and related equipment.

II. TC 62 ,Electrical power supply systems and machines Rotating machinery and components, transformers, solar cells, batteries, household electrical appliances and equipment, Power transmission, distribution networks; and Rectifiers, converters, stabilized power supply.

III. TC 63 Electrical materials and conductors Electrical materials and conductors in general such as cables, bus bars, wires, magnetic materials, semi conducting materials, and insulation materials, etc

IV. TC 64 ,Electronics Electronic components in general resistors, capacitors, semi-conductor devices, electronic devices, display devices, electric filters, etc., And electromechanical components for electronic and telecommunication equipment including mechanical structures for electronic equipment, and related components and equipment

V. TC 66, Electrical Installation Electrical installation in residential, commercial and industrial buildings Members of TC 66:



National electrotechnical committee No concerned organization TC UNDER NECE

61 62 63 64 66 1 Ethiopian Electricity Agency Chair

person Chair person

member member

member

2 AAU-Institute of Technology Dep.of Elec & Computer Engineering

member Chair person

member member member

3 Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation Member member

Chair person member Chair person

4 Ethiopian Society of Electrical Engineers Member x Member Member x

5 Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise

Member Membr

Member Chair person Member

6 FORTSCHRITT Electro-Mechanical Services Member x x Member

Member

7 Ethio Telecom Member Member x Member Member

8 Metals &industrial development institute Member x Member Member Member

9 Ethiopian Metals and Engineering Corporation

Member Member Member Member x

10 Ministry of Communication & Information Technology

x x Member Member Member

11 SNAP Computer x Member Member x Member

12 Ministry of Urban Development & Construction

x x x Member Member

13 Mesfin Industrial Engineering x x Member x Member

14 AAU-Institute of Technology Dep . of mechanical engineering

Member Member Member Member Member

15 Ethiopian Standards Agency, Member & sec

Member & sec

Member & sec

Member & sec

Member & sec

Benefits

Enables Ethiopia to participate in the IEC global standardization work without membership fee

Enables ESA to use IEC International Standards and other documents free of charge.

We can receive up to 400 standards for adoption free of charge as an Affiliate Plus country.

We are allowed to receive assessable documents in accessible PDF, this makes our adoption process easy. Reduce paper work and therefore save cost.


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We can access technical drafts for comment to our level especially from the side of our national differences like Altitude, temperature, national power supply etc.

If there is some difficulties in understanding some clauses from the standard to our knowledge we will ask technical explanation from the respective IEC TC through our NEC.

But before we established NEC we let our customers to find a solution by themselves if it is above our level.


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We hope we will also be benefited from IEC Mentoring Program also.


Challenges

Lack of awareness of consumers manufacturers, Importers, Academic institution on IEC International Standard and on quality in general.

Inadequate high level experts on the field. Poor consumer association on elctrotehcnology

products. Some times misunderstanding on some clauses

from the standard technically. Persons who are active in the work change

frequently.

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Adoption process

A new work item proposal is filed by customers for a new standard to be formulated.

NECE will discuses on the requested standards together with the respective TC.

After the TC approves for adoption NECE will request those standards from IEC for adoption if it is already developed by IEC.

The newly adopted standards will have new reference (designation No) as ES IEC XXXXX.

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Adopted IEC International Standards

Ethiopia yet adopt 206 IEC International Standards into national standards.

List of adoptions available on IEC website


Conformity Assessment in Ethiopia Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise

(ECAE) is major conformity assessment organization in Ethiopia.

Providing inspection, laboratory testing and certification services to public and to industry.

ECAE offers a wide range of testing services based on standards such as ES, IEC, ISO and others national standards or specifications if requested by the customer.


Core business areas of ECAE

Laboratory Testing Services.

Certification Services.

Inspection Services.


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Testing laboratories operated at ECAE HQ: Chemical, Electrical, Microbiological, Radiation, Mechanical, Textile & Leather.


ECAE’s Electrical Testing Laboratory

Under ECAE’s Electrical different electro technology products are tested according to Ethiopian standards adopted from IEC International Standard test methods and requirements.

For example Electric cable

ES IEC 60227, ES IEC 60502, ES IEC 60228. Compact Fluorescent lamps (CFL)

ES IEC 60968, ES IEC 60969

etc….


Scope of ECAE’s Electrical Laboratory

ECAE’s Electrical laboratory has six main laboratories 1. Electrical cables and Insulators testing Lab 2. Protection Device testing Lab 3. Photometric testing Lab 4. Battery testing Lab 5. Power Analysis Lab 6. PV testing Lab (New)


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