G/TBT/N/CZE/247  
4 November 2019  
(19-7365) 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):  Transfer 
media flow sensors with a multi -hole orifice plate; 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 i nstruments 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 docum ent: Draft General 
Measure number:0111 -OOP-C095-18, laying down metrological and technical requirements 
for legally controlled measuring instruments, including testing methods for type approval 
and verification of legally controlled measuring instruments: 'transfer media flow sensors 
with a multi -hole orifice plate' (13 page(s), in Czech; 14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Transfer media flow sensors with a multi -hole orifice plate may 
be placed on the market and put into use in the Czech R epublic as legally controlled 
measuring instruments pursuant to Act  No 505/1990 on metrology, as amended. Pursuant 
to this Act, legally controlled measuring instruments are instruments that are included in 
the list of the types of legally controlled measur ing 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 sanct ions, fees, tariffs and taxes, health 
protection, environmental protection, occupational safety, or the protection of other public 
interests protected by separate legislation. This means that their purpose is similar to that 
used for defining the legally c ontrolled products – measuring instruments and non -
automatic weighing instruments – under Directives 2014/31/EU and 2014/32/EU. The G/TBT/N/CZE/247  
 
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  requirements of this legislation do not apply to measuring instruments not placed on the 
market in the Czech Republic for th e above purposes, defined by Act  No 505/1990 on 
metrology.  
 
The purpose of this notified legislation is to lay down metrological and technical 
requirements for these legally controlled measuring instruments. This legislation also 
stipulates tests for type  approval and verification of legally controlled measuring 
instruments of this type.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  In the Czech Republic, transfer media flow sensors with a multi -hole orifice 
plate are legally controlled measuring instruments that are subject to mandatory type 
approval and verification.  
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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