G/TBT/N/CZE/221  
 
6 August 2018  
(18-4956) 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): 'Measuring 
instruments used to monitor activity limits and concentration of effluents from nuclear 
facilities, nuc lear raw material mining or processing facilities, radioactive waste processing 
plants and from the processing or application of radioactive materials, and also used to 
determine environmental radiation exposure due to effluents' - modules for discontinuou s 
measurement of activity or concentration by sampling that require specific test 
procedures; Radiation measurements (ICS 17.240).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft General 
Measure number: 0111 -OOP-C072-16 laying down the metrological and technical 
requirements for specified measuring instruments, including testing methods for type 
approval and verification of the following specified instruments: 'Measuring instruments 
used to monitor activity limits and concentrat ion of effluents from nuclear facilities, nuclear 
raw material mining or processing facilities, radioactive waste processing plants and from 
the processing or application of radioactive materials, and also used to determine 
environmental radiation exposure  due to effluents' - modules for discontinuous 
measurement of activity or concentration by sampling that require specific test procedures 
(13 page(s), in Czech; 13 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: Measuring instruments used to monitor act ivity limits and 
concentration of effluents from nuclear facilities, nuclear raw material mining or processing 
facilities, radioactive waste processing plants and from the processing or application of 
radioactive materials, and also used to determine envir onmental radiation exposure due to 
effluents' - modules for discontinuous measurement of activity or concentration by 
sampling that require specific test procedures - are placed on the market and put into use 
in the Czech Republic as specified measuring in struments following type approval and G/TBT/N/CZE/221  
 
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  initial verification pursuant to Act No. 505/1990 on metrology, as amended. This legislation 
contains national metrological regulation of type approval and verification of these 
measuring instruments.  
7. Objective and  rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: In the Czech Republic, measuring instruments used to monitor activity limits 
and concentration of effluents from nuclear facilities, nuclear raw material mining or 
processing facilities,  radioactive waste processing plants and from the processing or 
application of radioactive materials, and also used to determine environmental radiation 
exposure due to effluents' - modules for discontinuous measurement of activity or 
concentration by samp ling that require specific test procedures - are specified measuring 
instruments 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: 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:   
If there is an issue with downloading the 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   
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