Are those not just straight translations of the English?
On the basis of my very limited linguistic abilities, they certainly appear to be translations of a set of 'multi-national' instructions. For example, both the German and French versions say something along the lines of "All the cables must comply with the IEE regulations or, outside the UK, the local regulations". However, as has been implied, regardless of the language (hence, one assumes, target market) they cal for a DP isolator and a 3A fuse.
Apart from the fact that the assertion that "fuses are used [only] to protect the cable" is debated even in the UK, I, for one, do not know whether that same view/concept exists in other countries.
It would be simple enough to ask them if those are the instructions provided when the products are sold in countries outside the UK (which I suspect is the case).
Or merely a translation of British instructions with no regard to foreign ones.
The British version also says that.
So, we cannot just employ the local regulations, then, nor, indeed just IEE ones?
Fair enough, I hadn't got around to looking at the UK/English version. In that case, as you say, it seems that we are just talking about translations.
I also wondered that, but didn't talk about it since my point was that they were referring to 'local regulations' for use outside of the UK. I suspect that they are trying to say that not only must the cable be compliant with relevant regulations (e.g. of an adequate CCC, not bare conductors, or single-insulated ones {not in conduit} etc.!) but also that 'the wiring' etc. (i.e. how it was installed) should be compliant with local regulations - which would be fair enough.
It's odd. If it can be confirmed that what we're seeing really are the instructions provided when the product is sold outside of the UK, they appear to be requiring/demanding ("muss", "doit être") fusing that would be difficult/impossible to provide outside of the UK. If that were the case, then there surely would be people "like us" in those other countries who would be making a fuss about wat their MIs were requiring?
In terms of their leaflet more generally, you might have commented on the fact that a few of the products in their range are "Low Voltage" models
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