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

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

2 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 2

3 Land Cont. Ethiopia is the tenth largest by area in Africa, occupying 1,122,000 km 2 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 meters and Cool zone above 2440 meters 3

4 Cont. 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. 4

5 Cont.. 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. 5

6 Cont... Capital city. Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa named as among the top 10 cities to visit in 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 7

7 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 8

8 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 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. 9

9 Cont 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. 10

10 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 11

11 Cont 3. Ethiopian Electric Power corporation (EEPCO) Mr. Kebede 4. Minstry of Energy (MoE) Mr. Kahisu 5. Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise (ECAE) Mr. Mulugeta 12

12 TCs under NECE I. TC 61, Electrical accessories, lamps and related equipment Electrical accessories such as conduits, connecting devices, plugs, socketoutlets, 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: 13

13 National electrotechnical committee No concerned organization TC UNDER NECE 1 Ethiopian Electricity Agency Chair person 2 AAU-Institute of Technology Dep.of Elec & Computer Engineering member Chair person Chair person member member member 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 10 Ministry of Communication & Information Technology Member Member Member Member x 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 & Member & Member & Member & 14 sec sec sec sec

14 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. 15

15 Cont 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. 16

16 Cont We hope we will also be benefited from IEC Mentoring Program also. 17

17 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. IEC Affiliate forum 22 October

18 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. IEC Affiliate forum 22 October

19 Adopted IEC International Standards Ethiopia yet adopt 206 IEC International Standards into national standards. List of adoptions available on IEC website 20

20 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. 21

21 Core business areas of ECAE Laboratory Testing Services. Certification Services. Inspection Services. 22

22 Cont.. Testing laboratories operated at ECAE HQ: Chemical, Electrical, Microbiological, Radiation, Mechanical, Textile & Leather. 23

23 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 Compact Fluorescent lamps (CFL) ES IEC 60968, ES IEC etc. 24

24 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) 25

25 Welcome to Ethiopia

BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ETHIOPIA

BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ETHIOPIA Ethiopia is located in the horn of Africa. Bordered by Eritrea in the North and North East, Djibouti and Somalia in the East, Kenya in the South, and Sudan in the