G/TBT/N/CHE/177  
 
3 July 2014  
(14-3830)  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: SWITZERLAND 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):    
2. Agency responsible: Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS) 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 : 
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO 
Holzikofenweg 36 
3003 Berne Switzerland Fax +41 (0)58 464 09 58 
tbt@seco.admin.ch  
http://www.seco.admin.ch  
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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, wher e applicable): Measuring instruments 
for electrical energy and power  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft Ordinance of 
the Federal Department of Justice and Police on Measuring Instruments for Electrical Energy and Power (25 pages, available in French and German) 
6. Description of content: The current Swiss regulation on measuring instruments for 
electrical energy and power covers active electrical energy meters, reactive electrical energy meters as well as inductive and capacitive instrument transformers. For active 
electrical energy meters it transposes  the Directive 2004/22/EC of the European 
Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on measuring instruments (MID) into Swiss law to harmonize Switzerland's technical regulations with the one of its main trading 
partner.  
The proposed new regulation will additionally cover non-conventional instrument 
transformers and the meter functionalities of power and time-of-usage. For the newly 
regulated measuring instruments international standards will be adopted and partly 
supplemented with national provisions. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Adaptation to technological and economic changes in the field of electricity metering.  G/TBT/N/CHE/177 
 
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  8. Relevant documents:  The new ordinance will replace the Ordinance of 19 March 2006 of 
the Federal Department of Justice and Police on measuring instruments for electrical energy and power (available in http://www.admin.ch/o pc/fr/classified-
compilation/20051390/index.html (French), http://www.admin.ch/o pc/de/classified-
compilation/20051390/index.html (German), and http://www.admin.ch/o pc/it/classified-
compilation/20051390/index.html (Italian): RS 941.251.) 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   October 2014 
Proposed date of entry into force:   1 January 2015   
10. Final date for comments: 15 September 2014 
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/tbt/CHE/14_2904_00_f.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/tbt/CHE/14_2904_00_x.pdf