scope:

This standard applies to electric appliances (including their accessories or components) for household and similar use, supplied from mains or from batteries. This standard does not apply to: - appliances, equipment or machines designed exclusively for industrial or professional purposes; - appliances which are integrated parts of a building or its installations such as equipment for air conditioning, heating and ventilating (except household fans, cooker hoods and free standing heating appliances), oil burners for central heating, pumps for water supply and for sewage systems.