The meeting of Working Party 1 (Damage prevention and safety) and Working Party 2 (Electromagnetic fields: emissions, immunity and human exposure) of Study Group 5 (SG5), was held in July at the headquarters of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva. At the meeting, ITU-T Study Group 5 announced the creation of a new technical standard aimed at protecting the telecommunications equipment installed in customer premises from the effects of lightning strikes.