. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/PER/43 
22 October 2012 
 (12-5749) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección 
de la Propiedad Intelectual (INDECOPI) - Servicio Nacional de Metrología  (National 
Institute for the Defence of Competition and Protection of Intellectual Property - National 
Metrology Service) Name and address (including telephone  and fax numbers, e-mail and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   Ministerio de 
Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR  (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism) 
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):   9028.10.00.00:  
Gas meters 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de Norma 
Metrológica Peruana "PNMP 016 2012, Medido res de gas.  Parte 1:  Requisitos 
metrológicos y técnicos.  Parte 2:  Controles metrológicos y ensayos de funcionamiento"  
(Draft Peruvian Metrology Standard PNMP 016 2012:  Gas meters.  Part 1:  Metrological 
and technical requirements.  Part 2:  Me trological controls and performance tests) 
(81 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Part 1 of the notified draft Peruvian Metrology Standard contains 
ten (10) sections establishing metrological and technical requirements (introduction, scope, 
terminology, units of measurement, metrologi cal requirements, technical requirements, 
inscriptions, operating instructions, sealing,  suitability for testing) and one Annex 
(Requirements for software-controlled gas meters).   Part 2 of the notified Standard contains 
three (3) sections establishing metrological controls and performance tests (metrological controls, type evaluation, initial verificati on and subsequent verification) and six (6) 
Annexes (environmental tests for electronic inst ruments or devices, flow disturbance tests, 
overview of requirements and applicable tests for different metering principles, 
type evaluation of a family of gas meters, description of selected validation methods, bibliography).  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To ensure fair trading (through meter accu racy) and accurate consumer information.  G/TBT/N/PER/43 
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  8. Relevant documents:   International Recommendation of the International Organization of 
Legal Metrology, OIML R 137-1&2:2012:  Gas me ters.  Part 1:  Metr ological and technical 
requirements.  Part 2:  Metrological controls and performance tests.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   December 2012 
Six months after publication in the Official 
Journal El Peruano.  
10. Final date for comments:   10 January 2012 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body: 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo - MINCETUR 
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50, Urb. Corpac, Lima 27, Perú 
Tel.:  (+51) 1 513-6100, Ext. 8040 Fax:  (+51) 1 513-6100, Ext. 8002 E-mail:  otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
Website: http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/reglamentostecnicos  
http://www.comunidadandina.org/sirt 
Text available at: http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/PER/12_4073_00_s.pdf