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ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99/595
1 December 1999
(99-5175)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   SWEDEN
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  The Swedish National Energy Administration.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:   The National Board of Trade.
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   The scope of the
provisions is the performance of an entire measuring system when in use, not the particular
sub-assembly that together with other sub-assemblies makes up a measuring system.
Measuring systems consists of meters, power-lines and in some cases transformers.
In Chapter 2, section 3 (a) proposed requirements for time switches are being notified.  This
particular provision concerns a sub-assembly.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   The Swedish National
Energy Administration Regulations (NUTFS 1999:2) Regarding Measurements, Estimation
and Reporting of Transmitted Electricity, 37 pages, Swedish.
6. Description of content:   The scope of the provisions is the performance of an entire
measuring system when in use, not the particular sub-assembly that together with other
sub-assemblies makes up a measuring system.  Measuring systems consists of meters,
power-lines and in some cases transformers.
In Chapter 2, section 3 (a) proposed requirements for time switches are being notified.  This
particular provision concerns a sub-assembly.  The reform of the electricity market that has
taken place recently also implies a new method through model estimation for settlement.The method has been adjusted to allow time-of-use tariffs.  An additional requirement for
the performance of the time switch is therefore necessary.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
When the electricity market was deregulated on 1 January 1996, a new Electricity Act and
new regulations referring to measuring systems were entered into force.  At that time the
provisions were only applicable for a measuring system, installed for the purpose of hourly
measurement.  This, since a holder of a network concession was obliged to carry out suchmeasurements, when an end user had chosen to buy electricity on the free market from a
supplier that did not hold a supply concession.  Following the recent reform of the Swedish
electricity market, entered into force on 1 November 1999, the system of supply concessionG/TBT/Notif.99/595
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has been derogated. An hourly measurement constitutes no longer a prerequisite for market
access.  The electricity market is now open for all end users and suppliers under the same
competitive conditions.  Consequently however , the scope of the provisions in Chapter 2
has been enlarged, and now applies to measuring systems or measuring instruments, put into
use by a holder of a network concession in order to carry out measuring on behalf of anyother entity.
Pending a Council Decision regarding a new Measuring Instrument Directive, no reference
has been made to the obsolete Council Directive 76/891/EEC of 4 November 1976 on the
approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electricity meters.  The
Directive is optional and refers to newly manufactured, so called Ferraris meters.  Such
meters are no longer in production.  The use of electricity meters that complies with the
mentioned Council Directive is however allowed under section 4, Assessment of
Conformity.
8. Relevant documents:   The notified regulations are issued by virtue of The Electricity Act
(1997:857) and Regulation (1999:716) regarding measurements, estimation and reporting of
transmitted electricity.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }As soon as possible
10. Final date for comments:   11 February 2000
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body: