. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/77
1 August 2003
(03-4095)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   CZECH REPUBLIC
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Industry and Trade
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:           
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):   Measuring instruments
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Decree
amending some Decrees of the Ministry of Industry and Trade implementing
Act No 505/1990 Coll. on Metrology, as later amended (9 pages, in Czech).
6. Description of content:   Revision of the provision on the effectiveness of some decrees
implementing Act No 505/1990 Coll. on Metrology, as later amended, which enable, if
needed, classification of the measuring instruments section under The Protocol to the
Europe Agreement  establishing an Association between the Czech Republic, of the one part,
and the European Communities and their Member States, of the other part,  on Conformity
Assessment and Acceptance of Industrial Products (PECA).
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
The Draft Decree results from the necessity to classify the measuring instruments under
PECA.
8. Relevant documents:   Decree No 332/2000 Coll., establishing requirements for some
procedures for type approval and verification of the listed measuring instruments; Decree
No 333/2000 Coll., establishing requirements for hot-water meters affixed EEC marking;
Decree No 334/2000 Coll., establishing requi rements for cold-water meters affixed EEC
marking, Decree No 335/2000 Coll., establishing requirements for taximeters affixed EEC
marking; Decree No 336/2000 Coll., establishing requirements for gas meters affixed EEC
marking; Decree No 337/2000 Coll., establishing requirements for tyre pressure gauges for
motor vehicles affixed EEC marking; Decree No 338/2000 Coll., establishing requirements
for electricity meters affixed EEC marking; Decree No 339/2000 Coll., establishing
requirements for material measures of length affixed EEC marking; Decree No 21/2001
Coll., establishing requirements for meters for liquids other than water affixed EECmarking, and for ancillary equipment for these meters, Decree No 22/2001 Coll.,
establishing requirements for measuring systems for liquids other than water affixed EECG/TBT/N/CZE/77
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marking; Decree No 249/2001 Coll., establishing requirements for automatic
checkweighing and weight grading machines affixed EEC marking; Decree No 250/2001
Coll., establishing requirements for weighing machines of the belt conveyor type affixed
EEC marking; Decree No 29/2002 Coll., establishing requirements for measuring
instruments of the standard mass per storage volume of grain affixed EEC marking; DecreeNo 30/2002 Coll., establishing requirements for calibration of the tanks of vessels and
affixed EEC marking; Decree No 31/2002 Coll., establishing requirements for
alcoholmeters and alcohol hydrometers affi xed EEC marking; Decree No 32/2002 Coll.,
establishing requirements for weights from 1 mg up to 50 kg of above medium accuracy
affixed EEC marking; Decree No 33/2002 Coll., establishing requirements for 5 to 50 kg
medium accuracy rectangular bar weights and 1 g to 10 kg medium accuracy cylindrical
weights affixed EEC marking.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  September 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  Date of promulgation in Collection of Law
10. Final date for comments:   30 August 2003
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
http://www.unmz.cz/ , wto.tbt@unmz.cz