G/TBT/N/CZE/227  
 
19 December 2018  
(18-8018) 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, nucl ear 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 - measuring 
instruments for continuous monitoring of radioactive noble gases in gaseous effluents 
from nuclear facilities; Measuring instruments (ICS 17.040.30).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft General 
Measure number: 0111 -OOP-C076-16 laying  down the metrological and technical 
requirements for legally controlled measuring instruments, including test methods for 
type approval and verification of the following legally controlled measuring instruments: 
"Measuring instruments used to monitor acti vity 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 enviro nmental radiation exposure due to effluents - measuring 
instruments for continuous monitoring of radioactive noble gases in gaseous effluents 
from nuclear facilities" (22 page(s), in Czech; 22 page(s), in English)   
6. Description of content: Measuring ins truments 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 - measuring instruments for continuous monitoring of 
radioactive  noble gases in gaseous effluents from nuclear facilities - are placed on the 
market and put into use in the Czech Repu blic as legally controlled measuring instruments G/TBT/N/CZE/227  
 
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  following type approval and initial verification pursuant to Act No 505/1990 on metrology, 
as amended. This legislation contains a national metrological regulation for the type 
approval and verification of t hese 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 - measuring instruments for cont inuous monitoring of 
radioactive noble gases in gaseous effluents from nuclear facilities - are legally controlled 
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:  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_6504_00_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/CZE/18_6504_00_e.pdf