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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.

News items in this issue include:

• Licensure and low-voltage wiring in Texas.
• Eight ESTA TSP documents in public review.
• Amendment of Part 15 of the FCC's rules affecting white-space devices and wireless mics.
• WTO TBTs: new US controls on 28 chemicals; US rules for lithium batteries on aircraft; Cuban telecommunications equipment; Slovenian mead; 3ϕmotors in Thailand; Hungarian fire regulations
• ANSI public reviews: public safety grade site hardening; four standard welding procedure specifications; national green building standard; IES measuring solid-state lighting products; heavy duty grating manual; flashlight performance; personal fall arrest connectors; lithium battery safety; NEMA selection of motors and generators; wet SCOF and DCOF of walking surfaces.
• New ANS projects: photoluminescent markings; solid-state lighting controls; hand-operated hoists in entertainment; IES characterization of LED light engines and lamps; IES measuring light output of LED sources; IES photometric testing of entertainment luminaires; Fortran; C.
• Final approvals of ANSs: performance floor slipperiness; mobile audio amplifiers.
• Draft IEC & ISO docs: DALI part104; community resilience; method of describing amputation stumps; 15 controlgear safety requirement fragments; lamp starters; miscellaneous luminaire circuits; lamp controlgear for discharge lamps, fluorescent lams, filament lamps, LED modules; smart sensors, non-active mode power measurement; light flicker; industrial automation devices and systems reliability; industrial communication networks.
• Recently published IEC & ISO docs: sound system measurements; quality assessment for national libraries; breakdown voltage with anodized aluminium; accessible design; lifts for people and goods; lossy/lossless image coding; certification of software and systems; more standards for lifts for people and goods.
• TSP meeting schedule for July.
• TSP donors who have made long-term, multi-year pledges.
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.

The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available here.