Standards and regulations

Here, lighting designers, architects and engineers will find information about the most important national and international DIN standards and VDE regulations that need to be taken into account in lighting planning. licht.de provides a brief introduction to the scope and content of the relevant normative instruments.

The original texts of the standards can be ordered from Beuth-Verlag (DIN standards), 10787 Berlin, www.beuth.de and from VDE-Verlag (DIN VDE standards), 10625 Berlin, www.vde-verlag.de.

Standards governing indoor lighting

DIN 5034-1: 2011-07 Daylight in interiors – Part 1: General requirements

DIN 5035 Artificial lighting of interiors

DIN EN 12193 "Light and lighting - Sports lighting"

DIN EN 12464 Light and lighting – Lighting of work places, Part 1 Indoor work places (cited as DIN EN 12464-1).

DIN EN 12665 Light and lighting – Basic terms and criteria for specifying lighting requirements

DIN EN 13032-3:2007 Light and lighting – Measurement and presentation of photometric data of lamps and luminaires – Part 3: Presentation of data for emergency lighting of work places

DIN EN 15193:2008 Energy performance of buildings – Energy requirements for lighting (German version EN 15193:2007)

DIN EN 60529 + A1 Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP code)

DIN EN 60598/A1 Luminaires, Part 1 General requirements and tests

DIN VDE 0100 Erection of power installations with rated voltages up to 1,000 V


Standards governing outdoor lighting

DIN 13201-1:2004 Road lighting, Part 1: Selection of lighting classes, DIN EN 13201:2003 Road lighting, Part 2: Performance requirements, Part 3: Calculation of performance, Part 4: Methods of measuring lighting performance

Standards: DIN 67523-1 Lighting of pedestrian crossings with additional lighting (publ. June 2010)

DIN 67524 Lighting of street tunnels and underpasses

DIN EN 12193 "Light and lighting - Sports lighting"

DIN EN 12464-2:2007 Light and lighting – Lighting of work places – Part 2: Outdoor work places

DIN EN 12665 Light and lighting – Basic terms and criteria for specifying lighting requirements

DIN EN 13032-3:2007 Light and lighting – Measurement and presentation of photometric data of lamps and luminaires – Part 3: Presentation of data for emergency lighting of work places

DIN EN 60529 + A1 Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP code)

DIN EN 60598/A1 Luminaires, Part 1 General requirements and tests

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