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FOREWORD

This amendment has been prepared by subcommittee 61F: Safety of hand-held motoroperated electric tools, of IEC technical committee 61: Safety of household and similar electrical appliances.

Full information on the voting for the approval of this amendment can be found in the report on voting indicated in the above table.

With this amendment, this part 2 is established on the basis of the fourth edition (2006) of IEC 60745-1, Hand-held motor-operated electric tools - Safety - Part 1: General requirements.

Main changes include editorial modifications to match with the fourth edition of IEC 60745-1, addition of a new safety warning to Clause 8: Marking and instructions, and clarifications in Annex K.

The committee has decided that the contents of the base publication and its amendments will remain unchanged until the maintenance result date indicated on the IEC web site 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• withdrawn;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.