G/TBT/N/BOL/24  
28 August  2023 
(23-5781) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : PLURINATIONAL STATE OF BOLIVIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Ministerio de Desarrollo Productivo y Economía Plural , MDPyEP (Ministry of Productive 
Development and the Plural Economy)  
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:  
Ministerio de Desarrollo Productivo y Economía Plural  (MDPyEP)  
Av. Mariscal Santa Cruz, Edif . Centro de Comunicaciones, piso 17  
La Paz, Bolivia  
Tel.: (+591 ) (2) 2184444  
Fax: (+591) (2) 2316942  
Mobile : (+591) 701 900 13  
Email: reglamentos.otc@produccion.gob.bo  
Email: andres.ledezma@produccion.gob.bo  
Website: www.produccion.gob.bo  
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, otherwis e national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Personal 
weighing machines, including baby scales ; household scales (HS code : 842310) ; 
constant -weight scales and scales for discharging a predetermined weight of material into 
a bag or container, including hopper scales (excluding scales for continuous weighing of 
goods on conveyors) (HS code : 842330) ; - Other weighing machinery (HS code : 84238)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Reglamento Técnico "Aprobación de modelo de balanzas"  (Draft Technical Regulation 
"Approval of scales model") ; (17 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : This Technical Regulation applies to non -automatic weighing 
instruments, hereinafte r referred to as "scales", whether produced domestically or 
imported, of accuracy classes I, II, III and IV ; all sole traders or commercial companies, 
whether domestic or foreign, public or private, which manufacture, assemble or import 
the product in the Plurinational State of Bolivia, regardless of the place of origin of the 
product or its destination, are covered by the provisions contained in this Technical 
Regulation.  G/TBT/N/BOL/24  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Establishes the technical and metrological requirements, test methods and 
conformity assessment procedure for approval of model non -automatic weighing 
instruments, "scales", in order to prevent deceptive practices ; Prevention of deceptive 
practices and c onsumer protection.  
8. Relevant documents:  
• National Metrology Law implemented by Decree Law No.  15380 of 28/03/1978, 
and its General Regulations approved by Supreme Decree No.  19213 of 
05/10/1982 establishing the National Metrological Service ( SERMETRO).  
• OIML R 76 -1-2006 Non -automatic weighing instruments Part 1 : Metrological and 
technical requirements - Tests, of the International Organization of Legal 
Metrology (OIML).  
• EURAMET/CG/18 Version 4.0 (11/2015), Guidelines on the Calibration of Non -
Automatic Weighing Instruments.  
• Certification of Measuring Instruments, United Nations Industrial Development 
Organization (UNIDO), 2019.  
• Norma Boliviana NB 23001 -1:2012, Instrumentos de pesaje de funcionamiento 
no automático - Parte 1 : Requisitos metrológicos y técnicos - Ensayos.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 28 November 2 023 
Proposed date of entry into force : Six months after adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Viceministerio de Políticas de Industrialización  (Vice-Ministry for Industrialization Policies)  
Focal point : Richard Wilmer Rojas Ramos, Director General of Services and Industrial 
Quality  
Viceministerio de Políticas de Industrialización  
Alternate focal point : Andrés Gerardo Ledezma Araníbar, Expert in Technical Regulation 
Analysis  
Tel.: (+591) (2) 2184377  
Email: richard.rojas@produccion.gob.bo ; andres.ledezma@produccion.gob.bo  
Technical Regulations:  
Viceministerio de Políticas de Industrialización  
Av. Mcal. Santa Cruz, Edif . Centro de Comunicaciones  
La Paz, Bolivia  
Tel.: (+591) (2) 2184377  
Email: reglamentos.otc@produccion.gob.bo  
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