G/TBT/N/CZE/212  
 
1 August 2018  
(18-4869) 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): 
Instruments and systems measuring the flow volume of liquids other than water and of 
liquefied gas - dynamic measu ring systems for liquids other than water, which are fitted to 
vehicles and tank -vehicles; Measurement of fluid flow (ICS 17.120).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft General 
Measure No 0111 -OOP-C069-16 laying down the metrological and technical requirements 
for legally controlled measuring instruments, including testing methods for type approval 
and verification of the following legally controlled measuring instruments: instruments and 
systems measuring the flow vol ume of liquids other than water and of liquefied gas - 
dynamic measuring systems for liquids other than water, which are fitted to vehicles and 
tank-vehicles (14 page(s), in Czech; 14 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: Instruments and syste ms measuring the flow volume of liquids 
other than water - dynamic measuring systems for liquids other than water, which are 
fitted to vehicles and tank -vehicles, are placed on the market and put into use in the Czech 
Republic in accordance with  Directive 2014/32/EU (the Measuring Instruments Directive - 
MID). Once they have been put into use, they become subject to national metrological 
regulation - verification at specified intervals. This notified legislation only applies to the 
verification 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 when in use are fully compatible with the MID and are 
also based on OIML   recommendation 117. 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 is subject to 
visual or other c hecks during verification.  G/TBT/N/CZE/212  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Instruments and systems measuring the flow volume of liquids other than 
water and of liquefied gas - dynamic measuring systems for liquids oth er than water, 
which are fitted to vehicles and tank -vehicles, are legally controlled measuring instruments 
in the Czech Republic that are subject to mandatory type approval and verification.  
8. Relevant documents:   
Reference(s) to basic text(s): - Act No  505/1990 on metrology  
- § 171 et seq. of Act No 500/2004, the Administrative Procedure Code, as amended   
9. Proposed date of adoption: October 2018  
Proposed date of entry into force: October 2018  
10. Final date for comments: 27 September 2018  
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 will be a problem with downloading document, you can 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   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/CZE/18_4135_00_e.pdf  
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