IEC 60598-2-8:20 13规定了与电源电压不超过250 V的电光源一起使用的手持灯和类似便携式灯具的要求。第三版取消并取代了1996年出版的第二版及其修正案1（2000年）和修正案2（2007年）。它构成技术修订。与上一版相比，该版本包括以下重大技术变化。 a)对要求进行了更新，使其保持一致并解决修正案2中引入的相互矛盾的要求。在该修正案中，引入了一项要求，规定手电筒应始终仅归类为粗糙服务灯具。这句话的意思是，根据4。第1部分13.4此类灯具应始终为IP54。该要求与第2部分的几点相矛盾，在第2部分中，该要求被认为对于普通灯具是可接受的（例如8.11.1、8.11.2和8.13.1）。 b)此外，8.7.1和8.7.2中关于保护罩所用材料类型的要求之间的矛盾已得到纠正。 本出版物应与IEC 60598-1:20 08一起阅读。

IEC 60598-2-8:2013 specifies requirements for handlamps and similar portable luminaires which are held in the hand, hooked up or resting on a surface for use with electric light sources on supply voltages not exceeding 250 V. This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition, published in 1996, its Amendment 1 (2000) and its Amendment 2 (2007). It constitutes a technical revision. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition.
a) The requirements have been updated to make them consistent and to solve contradicting requirements introduced in the Amendment 2. In that amendment, a requirement was introduced specifying that handlamp shall always be classified as rough service luminaire only. The implication of this statement was that according to 4.13.4 of Part 1 this kind of luminaire shall always be IP54. This requirements is in contradiction with several points of this Part 2 where it is considered acceptable for ordinary luminaires (e.g. 8.11.1, 8.11.2 and 8.13.1).
b) Furthermore, the contradiction between the requirement in 8.7.1 and 8.7.2 regarding the type of material used for the protective cover has been corrected.

This publication is to be read in conjunction with IEC 60598-1:2008.