arpadveress Many people don’t know that the Annexes to these Standards (IEC 60079-14, -17 and -19) regarding competence exist and even when they do know of the existence they don’t understand that these Annexes are normative (refer to http://www.iec.ch/standardsdev/resources/draftingpublications/directives/subdivision/annexes.htm) and NOT informative where ….
· Normative = prescriptive = how to comply
· Informative = descriptive = help with conceptual understanding
Keep up good work!
Arpad
