G/TBT/N/CZE/210  
 
1 August 2018  
(18-4867) 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): Fixed 
storage tanks used as instruments for measuring volume; Measurement of volume, mass, 
density, viscosity (ICS 17.060).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft General 
Measure No 0111 -OOP-C065-16 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 nstruments: fixed storage 
tanks used as instruments for measuring volume (11 page(s), in Czech; 11 page(s), in 
English)    
6. Description of content: Fixed storage tanks used as instruments for me asuring volume 
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 notified legislation conc erns national 
metrology regulation through type approval and verification of measuring instruments, i.e. 
fixed storage tanks used as instruments for measuring volume.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: In the Czech Republic, fixed storage tanks used as instruments for measuring 
volume are legally controlled measuring instruments that are subject to mandatory type 
approval and verification.  G/TBT/N/CZE/210  
 
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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: 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 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   
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