scope:

Specifies the essential characteristics of household frozen food storage cabinets and foor freezers cooled by internal forced air circulation and of household refrigerators with or without cellar, ice-making or frozen food storage compartment and of refrigerator-freezers with or without cellar with at least the food freezer and/or frozen food storage compartment(s) cooled by internal forced air circulation, which are wholly factory assembled, and lays down the methods of test for the checking of these characteristics. Appliances with one refrigerating systems in which there are compartments, some cooled by forced air circulation and others by natural convection shall be tested in accordance with this Standard. Compartments cooled by natural convection but having a separate independent refrigerating system shall be tested in accordance with the applicable referenced standard. However all compartments are automatically defrosted with automatic disposal of the defrost water. The electrical and mechanical safety requirements applicable to household refrigerating appliances are specified by IEC publication 335-2-24. This Standard does not apply to household frost-free refrigerating appliances operating on energy sources other than electricity.