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National committees are kindly asked to prepare aligned comments to prEN 1838 and prEN 50172, for instance by a joint meeting of the relevant mirror committees.

This document specifies electrical installation requirements specific for emergency escape lighting systems together with verification, operation and maintenance documentation and test requirements for such systems.

Electrical installation requirements specific for emergency escape lighting systems" may or may not be covered finally in the document - de-pending on the technical requirements as agreed for this document. Thus, corresponding technical requirements may be removed in which case also the scope would be amended accordingly

NOTE 1 Emergency escape lighting includes escape route lighting, open area (anti-panic) lighting, local area lighting and high risk task area lighting. Escape routesafety sings are part of emergency escape lighting.

NOTE 2 Emergency escape lighting systems include adaptive and non-adaptive, as well as high and low-mounted systems.

This document does not apply to standby lighting.

NOTE 3 Systems used for standby lighting may also be used for emergency escape lighting, given the corresponding requirements are fulfilled, see prEN 1838:2022, Clause 4.