G/TBT/N/CZE/235  
 
20 June 2019  
(19-4228) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  CZECH REPUBLIC   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Czech Metrology Institute  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Czech Office for Standards, Metrology, and Testing  
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point  
P. O. Box 49  
Biskupsky dvur 1148/5  
110 00 Prague 1 -Czech Republic  
Telephone: (+420) 221 802 212  
Telefax: (+420) 221 802 440  
E-mail: wto.tbt@unmz.cz   
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):  Metrology 
and measurement in general (ICS 17.020)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft General 
Measure number: 0111 -OOP-C096-18, laying down the metrological and technical 
requirements for specified measuring instrume nts for the purposes of examining 
measuring instrument at the request of a person who may be affected by incorrect 
measurement: 'measuring tapes' (5 page(s), in Czech; 5 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  In the Czech Republic, measuring tape s are placed on the 
market and put into use pursuant to Directive  2014/32/EU (MID). Once they have been 
put into use, they become subject to national metrological regulation – examination at 
the request of a person who may be affected by incorrect measurem ent. This notified 
legislation only applies to the examination of measuring instruments that have already 
been put into use. It does not concern placing them on the market or putting them into 
use.  
The requirements imposed on these measuring instruments w hen in use are fully 
compatible with the MID.  
Some parameters listed in this document are properties of the measuring instruments 
when they are new; they are listed herein only because the preservation of these 
properties when the instruments are in use i s subject to visual or other checks during 
examination.  
 
Keywords:  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  In the Czech Republic, measuring tapes are specified measuring instruments 
which are subject to examination at the request of a person affected by the measurement.  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Reference(s) to basic text(s): Act No  505/1990 on metrology, as am ended  
• § 171 et seq. of Act No.  500/2004, the Code of Administrative Procedure, as 
amended  
• The basic texts were forwarded with an earlier notification: 2018/593/CZ  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 October 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 October 2019  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Czech Office for Standards, Metrology, and Testing  
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point  
P. O. Box 49  
Biskupsky dvur 1148/5  
110 00 Prague 1 -Czech Republic  
Telephone: (+420) 221 802 212  
Telefax: (+420) 221 802 440  
E-mail: wto.tbt@unmz.cz   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/CZE/19_3551_00_e.pdf  
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