G/TBT/N/CZE/229  
 
19 December 2018  
(18-8026) 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): Rotary -
piston and velocity gas flow meters ; Measuring instruments (ICS 17.040.30).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft General 
Measure number: 0111 -OOP-C031-18 laying down the metrological and technical 
requirements for legally controlled measuring instruments, including test methods for 
type approval and verification of the foll owing legally controlled measuring instruments: 
"rotary -piston and velocity gas flow meters" (10 page(s), in Czech; 10 page(s), in English)   
6. Description of content: Rotary -piston and velocity gas flow meters are placed on the 
market and put into use in  the Czech Republic as legally controlled measuring instruments 
following type approval and initial verification pursuant to Act No 505/1990 on metrology, 
as amended. This legislation contains a national metrological regulation of type approval 
for measuri ng instruments falling outside the scope of Directive 2014/32/EU (the 
Measuring Instruments Directive - MID) and for verification of instruments that have 
already been placed on the market, either specified in the MID or Act No 505/1990 on 
metrology.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  In the Czech Republic, rotary -piston and velocity gas flow meters are legally 
controlled measuring instruments that are subject to mandatory type approval (only non -
MID) and verification.  G/TBT/N/CZE/229  
 
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  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:  April 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force:  April 2019  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
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/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_6506_00_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/CZE/18_6506_00_e.pdf