G/TBT/N/CZE/252  
7 June 2022  
(22-4297) 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  
Biskupský dvůr 1148/5  
110 00 Prague 1 - Czech Republic  
Telephone: (+420) 221 802 212  
Email address: wto.tbt@unmz.cz  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
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. PHYS ICAL PHENOMENA (ICS code(s): 17)  
- voltage instrument transformers  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft measure 
of a general nature  
number: 0111 -OOP-C089-22,laying down the metrological and technical requirements for 
specified measuring instruments, including test methods for verification of the following 
specified measuring instruments:  
"voltage instrument transformers"; (32 page(s), in English), (31 page(s), in Czech)  
6. Description of content:  Voltage instrument tr ansformers may be placed on the market 
and put into use in the Czech Republic as specified measuring instruments in accordance 
with Act No 505/1990 Coll. on metrology, as amended. Pursuant to the Act, specified 
measuring instruments are instruments that ar e included in the list of the types of 
specified measuring instruments (Decree No 345/2002 Coll.) and, at the same time, 
intended (by the manufacturer/importer) for measurements of relevance to the protection 
of public interest in areas of consumer protect ion, contractual relations, imposition of 
sanctions, fees, tariffs and taxes, health protection, environmental protection, 
occupational safety, or the protection of other public interests protected by special 
legislation. This is therefore a similar purpos e as that which is used to identify specified 
products - measuring instruments and non -automatic weighing instruments pursuant to 
Directives 2014/31/EU and 2014/32/EU. The requirements of this legislation do not apply G/TBT/N/CZE/252  
 
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  to measuring instruments not placed on  the market in the Czech Republic for the above 
purposes, defined by Act No 505/1990 Coll. on metrology.  
The purpose of this notified legislation is to lay down metrological and technical 
requirements for these specified measuring instruments. This legislation also stipulates 
tests for type approval and verification of specified measuring instruments of this type.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  In the Czech Republic, voltage instrument transform ers are specified 
measuring instruments that are subject to type approval and verification.  
8. Relevant documents:   
Reference(s) to basic text(s): Act No 505/1990 Coll. on metrology, as amended.  
Section 171 et seq. of Act No 500/2004 Coll., the Administr ative Code, as amended.  
Decree No 345/2002 Coll. laying down measurement instruments for mandatory 
verification and measurement instruments subject to type approval, as amended.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  17 August 2022  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 September 2022  
10. Final date for comments:  8 August 2022  
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 Enquiry Point  
Contact person: Mrs. Irena Karasova  
Na Žertvách 132/24,  
Prague 8  
Tel: +(420) 221 802 212  
Email: wto.tbt@unmz.cz  
Website: http://www.unmz.cz/office/wto -tbt-enquiry -point 
The English version of the Draft measure of a general nature number: 0111 -OOP-C089-
22, laying down the metrological and technical requirements for specified measuring 
instruments, including test methods for verification of the following specified measuring  
instruments: "voltage instrument transformers" - is available in the Tris database, please 
follow the attached URL link below: https://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -
databases/tris/index.cfm/cs/search/?trisaction=search.detail&year=2022&num=342&m
Lang=EN  
https://members .wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/CZE/22_3949_00_e.pdf