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BS 7671:2018+A1:2020 is withdrawn next week, join us for a LIVE webinar to find out how this affects you!

There's less than a week until BS 7671:2018+A1:2020 is withdrawn on 27 September 2022. All of your electrical installations, therefore, must comply with BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 from 28 September 2022.

If you are an installer and/or designer you will need to consider the changes brought about by BS 7671:2018+A2:2022 and have discussions with your clients before starting work.

Join the IET and CEF on 27 September 2022 at 19:00 BST for a live webinar to discuss the withdrawal of BS 7671:2018+A1:2020 and how it will affect you. 

Speakers include: 

  • Darren Staniforth, Head of Technical Solutions, CEF
  • Dave Austin, Technical Presenter
  • Mark Coles, Head of Technical Regulations, IET

Register to attend the webinar (it's free!) 

  • As much as I’d like to watch , I can’t in any shape or form have any dealing with cef  , I’ve had so many many problems with them , and refuse to give them any of my details so I’m not spammed by the local rep etc .

    im genuinely surprised , I thought the iet was independent.

  • That's long gone.

  • It’s not long gone it’s on the 27th , did Darren work for NiCEIC before ?

  • I went to register, but gave up when the form was rejected if the check box next to "I understand and consent to the information provided on this form being processed by CEF for the purpose of promoting, delivering and improving my experience of CEF, and their products and services” was not selected!

    Edited to add:

    Whilst it is great that companies what to sponsor events like this, people should be allowed to opt-out of it being used as a sales lead gathering exercise.

  • I was referring to the independence of the IET.

    It would be much more honest if they just came clean and said "Look folks, yes we get funding from the industry, it's our bread and butter income, so yes we mandate useless kit from time to time because the lobby groups from industry threaten to withdraw funding if we don't."

  • I’m not sure your info is correct there whjohnson!

    I’ve asked someone in our Regs team to pop in here to respond to your comments. Slight smile

  • well it certainly will not let you register if you do not accept spam from CEF - diabolical

  • Passing that feedback onto the Regs team @ebee as I’m also not sure that’s the correct wording for that tickbox either! Usually it’s a GDPR requirement for consent to processing your data as part of the general event admin but the marketing stuff is usually another optional tick box! 

  •   for info, here's a copy of the publicly available IET 2021 annual report and accounts which covers the IET's income and expenditure. As you can see on page 43 the vast amount of income for the IET comes from our Knowledge Services arm that publishes books and journals etc, organises large technical conferences, Inspec services as well as publishing a little known publication called the 18th Edition Wiring regs. Wink

    Our second biggest source of income is membership. Trading was down last year as Covid lockdowns reduced the income from our event venues in London and Birmingham and another large source of income (the IBC conference) was also cancelled in 2021.

    More detailed info can be found in the report for anyone interested. 

    So as you can see 'funding from the industry' in the way you're suggesting is certainly not the IET's 'bread and butter income' Slight smile

  • Lisa,

    Firstly, many thanks for taking the time and trouble to respond.

    As you say, much of the IET's income is indeed derived from publications sales.

    May I assume that it is actually changes to these publications which drives sales?

    Which leads me to the target I have been aiming for - who drives the changes?

    I would say that it is self evident that without changes, there would be no need to republish, and if the IET didn't republish, there would be less income.