G/TBT/N/CZE/246  
31 October 2019  
(19-7321) 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):  Gas flow 
computers; Instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure 
or other variables of liquids or gases (for example, flowmeters, level gauges, manometers, 
heat meters), excluding instruments and apparatus of heading 90.14 , 90.15, 90.28 or 
90.32 (HS 9026); Metrology and measurement. Physical phenomena (Vocabularies) (ICS 
01.040.17), Measuring instruments (ICS 17.040.30)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  General measure 
number: 0111 -OOP-C083-18, laying down metrological and technical requirements for 
legally controlled measuring instruments, including testing methods for type approval and 
verification of legally controlled measuring instruments: 'gas flow computers' (17 page(s), 
in Czech; 18  page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Gas flow computers may be placed on the market and put into 
use in the Czech Republic as legally controlled measuring instruments pursuant to 
Act No 505/1990 on metrology, as amended. Pursuant to the Act, l egally controlled 
measuring instruments are instruments that are included in the list of the types of legally 
controlled measuring instruments (Implementing Decree No  345/2002) and, at the same 
time, intended (by the manufacturer/importer) for measurements  of relevance to the 
protection of public interests in areas of consumer protection, contractual relations, 
imposition of sanctions, fees, tariffs and taxes, health protection, environmental 
protection, occupational safety, or the protection of other publi c interests protected by 
special legislation. This means that their purpose is similar to that used for defining the 
legally controlled products – measuring instruments and non -automatic weighing 
instruments – under Directives 2014/31/EU and 2014/32/EU. Th e requirements of this 
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  Republic for the above purposes, defined by Act  No 505/1990 on metrology.  
The purpose of this notified legislation is to lay down metrological an d technical 
requirements for legally controlled measuring instruments of the type legally controlled 
above. This legislation also lays down the tests for the purposes of type approval and 
verification of legally controlled measuring instruments of the type  legally controlled 
above.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Gas flow computers are legally controlled measuring instruments that are 
subject to mandatory type approval and verification in the Czech Republic.; Other  
8. Relevant documents:   
Reference(s) to basic text(s): Act No  505/1990 on metrology, as amended  
§ 171 et seq. of Act No  500/2004, the Code of Administrative Procedure, as amended  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  February 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force:  February 2020  
10. Final date for comments:  8 January 2020  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
If there is any issue with downloading document, contact us:  
 
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   
 
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