G/TBT/N/MDA/42  
 
23 February 2018  
(18-1189) 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: REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure of the Republic of Moldova  
MD-2033, Chisinau, 1  Piata Marii Adunari Nationale  
Tel. +373 22 250 668, +373 22 234 064  
E-mail: mineconcom@mec.gov.md   
www.mec.gov.md   
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to h andle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
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): Metrology 
activities  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Law no.19 of 
04.03.2016 on metrology (17 pages, in Romanian and Russian)    
6. Description of content: The law includes a number of provisions that come to implement 
additional requirements and standards relating to non -automatic weighing machines, 
placing on the market of measur ing instruments, nominal quantities for pre -packaged, 
measuring container bottles.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The law aims to harmonize the legal metrology with international law model of 
the International Organization of Legal Metrology D1. This project creates premises for 
transposition into national law of New Approach EU Directives.  
8. Relevant documents:  REGULATION (EC) No 765/2008 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 
AND OF THE COUNCIL of 9 July 2 008 setting out the requirements for accreditation and 
market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) 
No 339/93 (Text with EEA relevance), DECISION No 768/2008/EC OF THE EUROPEAN 
PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 9 July 2008 on a common framework for the 
marketing of products, and repealing Council Decision 93/465/EEC (Text with EEA 
relevance), DIRECTIVE 2007/45/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE 
COUNCIL of 5 September 2007 laying down rules on nominal quantiti es for prepacked 
products, repealing Council Directives 75/106/EEC and 80/232/EEC, and amending Council 
Directive 76/211/EEC, COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 20 January 1976 on the approximation of 
the laws of the Member States relating to the making -up by weight or by volume of certain 
pre-packaged products, COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 19 December 1974 on the approximation G/TBT/N/MDA/42  
 
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  of the laws of the Member States relating to bottles used as measuring containers 
(75/107/EEC), COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 20 December 1979 on the approximatio n of the 
laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement and on the repeal of Directive 
71/354/EEC, DIRECTIVE 2014/32/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE 
COUNCIL of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States 
relating to the making available on the market of measuring instruments (recast)   
9. Proposed date of adoption: 4 March 2016  
Proposed date of entry into force: 15 October 2016  
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:   
The National Center of Notification and Information of the WTO, Enquiry point in the area 
of technical barriers to trade (TBT)  
MD – 2033, Chisinau, Piata Marii Adunari Nationale 1  
Tel.: +373 22 250 668, +373 22 250 639, Fax: +373 22 234 064  
mail: mineconcom@mec.gov.md  
Text is available (Romanian and Russian):  
http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=364214