oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/oprA1:2026
(Amendment)Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-36: Particular requirements for commercial electric cooking ranges, ovens, hobs and hob elements
General Information
- Abstract
This standard deals with the safety of electrically operated commercial cooking and baking ranges, ovens, hobs, hob elements and similar appliances, their rated voltage being not more than 250 V for single-phase appliances connected between one phase and neutral and 480 V for other appliances.
- Status
- Not Published
- Public Enquiry End Date
- 30-Jul-2026
- Technical Committee
- VGA - Safety of household and similar electrical appliances
- Current Stage
- 4020 - Public enquire (PE) (Adopted Project)
- Start Date
- 28-May-2026
- Due Date
- 15-Oct-2026
- Completion Date
- 03-Aug-2026
Overview
oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/oprA1:2026 is a draft amendment to the European standard specifying safety requirements for electrically operated commercial cooking equipment. This standard, maintained by SIST and developed under the guidance of IEC/TC 61, covers commercial electric cooking ranges, ovens, hobs, and hob elements. It ensures these appliances, operating at not more than 250 V for single-phase and 480 V for other configurations, meet updated safety benchmarks crucial for the catering and food service industries.
The amendment incorporates the latest international developments and harmonizes requirements across Europe, addressing evolving technologies including direct current (DC) supplied appliances. It also clarifies the handling of battery-operated devices, charging routines, and mechanical safety concerns relevant to commercial kitchens.
Key Topics
- Scope Expansion: Now explicitly includes requirements for DC-supplied appliances, reflecting new trends in power supply technology for commercial kitchen equipment.
- Safety Requirements: Specifies updated criteria for the construction and operation of electric cooking ranges, ovens, hobs, and hob elements in a commercial setting.
- Mechanical Stability: Reinforces provisions around the stability of appliances, mandating robust protective enclosures and non-detachable or interlocked guards with sufficient mechanical strength.
- Batteries and Charging: Aligns battery operation and charging requirements with the general provisions of IEC 60335 Part 1, streamlining how lithium-ion batteries are managed within these appliances.
- Exclusions and Modifications: Removes or modifies certain clauses and annexes related to battery-operated appliances to reduce duplication and simplify compliance.
- Harmonization: Ensures appliances meet harmonized standards required for conformity throughout CENELEC member countries.
Applications
This amended standard is highly relevant to manufacturers, designers, testing bodies, and certification organizations involved with:
- Commercial Food Service Equipment: Applies directly to manufacturing and design of electric ovens, hobs, cooking ranges, and related components intended for restaurants, catering services, hotels, and institutional kitchens.
- Product Compliance and Certification: Helps ensure new models of commercial cooking appliances meet up-to-date European safety expectations, facilitating CE marking and market entry across the EU and EFTA regions.
- Quality Control in Production: Provides clear criteria for mechanical robustness and electrical safety, supporting quality assurance and risk management throughout an appliance's lifecycle.
- Innovation Readiness: Addresses the integration of newer power supply technologies, including direct current systems and the safe inclusion of rechargeable batteries in commercial cooking equipment.
Related Standards
For comprehensive appliance safety, consider these connected standards and references:
- IEC 60335-1: General requirements for the safety of household and similar electrical appliances; forms the base standard to which Part 2-36 refers.
- IEC 60335-2 Series: Various parts that address particular requirements for different categories of electrical appliances, including food processing, refrigeration, and cleaning devices.
- EN 60335-2-36: The European equivalent of the IEC standard, ensuring regional compliance across the Single Market.
- National Implementations by CENELEC Members: As this draft is harmonized, check for local adoptions and notifications by standardization bodies such as DIN (Germany), AFNOR (France), BSI (UK), and others.
By adopting oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/oprA1:2026, stakeholders guarantee that commercial electric cooking appliances operate safely, reliably, and in accordance with the latest international and European best practices. This enhances safety for users and helps organizations meet compliance requirements with confidence.
Relations
- Effective Date
- 01-Apr-2025
- Effective Date
- 07-Apr-2025
Frequently Asked Questions
oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/oprA1:2026 is a draft published by the Slovenian Institute for Standardization (SIST). Its full title is "Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-36: Particular requirements for commercial electric cooking ranges, ovens, hobs and hob elements". This standard covers: This standard deals with the safety of electrically operated commercial cooking and baking ranges, ovens, hobs, hob elements and similar appliances, their rated voltage being not more than 250 V for single-phase appliances connected between one phase and neutral and 480 V for other appliances.
This standard deals with the safety of electrically operated commercial cooking and baking ranges, ovens, hobs, hob elements and similar appliances, their rated voltage being not more than 250 V for single-phase appliances connected between one phase and neutral and 480 V for other appliances.
oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/oprA1:2026 is classified under the following ICS (International Classification for Standards) categories: 97.040.20 - Cooking ranges, working tables, ovens and similar appliances. The ICS classification helps identify the subject area and facilitates finding related standards.
oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/oprA1:2026 has the following relationships with other standards: It is inter standard links to oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026, oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/oprAA:2026. Understanding these relationships helps ensure you are using the most current and applicable version of the standard.
oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/oprA1:2026 is associated with the following European legislation: EU Directives/Regulations: 2014/35/EU, 2014/53/EU, 2023/1230; Standardization Mandates: M/511, M/536, M/605. When a standard is cited in the Official Journal of the European Union, products manufactured in conformity with it benefit from a presumption of conformity with the essential requirements of the corresponding EU directive or regulation.
oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/oprA1:2026 is available in PDF format for immediate download after purchase. The document can be added to your cart and obtained through the secure checkout process. Digital delivery ensures instant access to the complete standard document.
Standards Content (Sample)
SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-julij-2026
Gospodinjski in podobni električni aparati - Varnost - 2-36. del: Posebne zahteve
za komercialne električne štedilnike, pečice, kuhalne plošče in njihove elemente -
Dopolnilo A1
Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-36: Particular requirements
for commercial electric cooking ranges, ovens, hobs and hob elements
Sicherheit elektrischer Geräte für den Hausgebrauch und ähnliche Zwecke - Teil 2-36:
Besondere Anforderungen für elektrische Herde, Brat- und Backöfen und Kochplatten für
den gewerblichen Gebrauch
Appareils électrodomestiques et analogues - Sécurité - Partie 2-36: Exigences
particulières pour les cuisinières, les fours, les tables de cuisson et les foyers de cuisson
électriques à usage commercial
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/prA1:2026
ICS:
97.040.20 Štedilniki, delovni pulti, Cooking ranges, working
pečice in podobni aparati tables, ovens and similar
appliances
oSIST prEN IEC 60335-2- en
36:2026/oprA1:2026
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.
EUROPEAN STANDARD DRAFT
prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
prA1
May 2026
ICS 97.040.20 -
English Version
Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 2-36:
Particular requirements for commercial electric cooking ranges,
ovens, hobs and hob elements
(IEC 60335-2-36:2021/AMD1:2025)
Appareils électrodomestiques et analogues - Sécurité - Sicherheit elektrischer Geräte für den Hausgebrauch und
Partie 2-36: Exigences particulières pour les cuisinières, les ähnliche Zwecke - Teil 2-36: Besondere Anforderungen für
fours, les tables de cuisson et les foyers de cuisson elektrische Herde, Brat- und Backöfen und Kochplatten für
électriques à usage commercial den gewerblichen Gebrauch
(IEC 60335-2-36:2021/AMD1:2025) (IEC 60335-2-36:2021/AMD1:2025)
This draft amendment prA1, if approved, will modify the European Standard prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026; it is submitted to CENELEC
members for enquiry.
Deadline for CENELEC: 2026-08-14.
The text of this draft consists of the text of IEC 60335-2-36:2021/AMD1:2025.
If this draft becomes an amendment, CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which
stipulate the conditions for giving this amendment the status of a national standard without any alteration.
This draft amendment was established by CENELEC in three official versions (English, French, German).
A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to
the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Türkiye and the United Kingdom.
Recipients of this draft are invited to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent rights of which they are aware and to
provide supporting documentation.
Warning : This document is not a European Standard. It is distributed for review and comments. It is subject to change without notice and
shall not be referred to as a European Standard.
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Rue de la Science 23, B-1040 Brussels
© 2026 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
Project: 81631 Ref. No. prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/prA1:2026 E
prEN IEC 60335-2-36/prA1:2026 (E)
1 European foreword
2 This document (prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/prA1:2026) consists of the text of IEC 60335-2-36/A1:2025
3 prepared by IEC/TC 61 "Safety of household and similar electrical appliances".
4 This document is currently submitted to the Enquiry.
5 The following dates are proposed:
• latest date by which the existence of this (doa) dav + 6 months
document has to be announced at national
level
• latest date by which this document has to be (dop) dav + 12 months
implemented at national level by publication of
an identical national standard or by
endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards (dow) dav + 36 months
conflicting with this document have to be (to be confirmed or
withdrawn modified when voting)
6 This document is read in conjunction with prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026 and prEN IEC 60335-2-
7 36:2026/prAA:2026.
8 This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CENELEC by the European
9 Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA State subsequently approves these requests for its
10 Member States.
11 For relationship with EU legislation, see informative Annexes ZZA, ZZB and ZZC, which are an integral part of
12 prEN IEC 60335-2-36:2026/prAA:2026.
Secretary’s Note: The above sentence in lines 11/12 will be removed when the BT approves the removal of
the link to legislation
IEC 60335-2-36 ®
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Household and similar electrical appliances – Safety –
Part 2-36: Particular requirements for commercial electric cooking ranges,
ovens, hobs and hob elements
Appareils électrodomestiques et analogues – Sécurité –
Partie 2-36: Exigences particulières pour les cuisinières, les fours, les tables de
cuisson et les foyers de cuisson électriques à usage commercial
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