G/TBT/N/CZE/241  
9 July 2019  
(19-4550) 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, Metro logy, 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):  
Instruments for measuring the instantaneous values and short - and long -term averages 
of the 222Rn activity concentration in air and water and the 222Rn equivalent activity 
concentration; Metrology and measurement in general (ICS 17.020), Measuring 
instrum ents (ICS 17.040.30)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft General 
Measure number: 0111 -OOP-C097-18 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 instruments: 
"instruments for measuring the instantaneous values and short - and long -term averages 
of the 222Rn activity concentration in air and water and the 222Rn equivalent activity 
concentration" (11 page(s), in Czech; 11 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Instruments for measuring the instantaneous values and short - 
and long -term averages of the 222Rn activity concentration in air and water and the 
222Rn equivalent activity concentration may be placed on the market and put into use in 
the Czech Republic as  legally controlled measuring instruments in accordance with 
Act No 505/1990 on metrology, as amended. Pursuant to the Act, legally controlled 
measuring instruments are instruments that are included in the list of the types of legally 
controlled measuring instruments (Implementing Decree No  345/2002) and, at the same 
time, intended (by the manufacturer/importer) for measurements of relevance to the 
protection of public interests in areas of consumer protection, contractual relations, 
imposition of sanctions , fees, tariffs and taxes, health protection, environmental 
protection, occupational safety, or the protection of other public interests protected by 
special legislation. This means that their purpose is similar to that used for defining the G/TBT/N/CZE/241  
 
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  legally contro lled products – measuring instruments and non -automatic weighing 
instruments – under Directives 2014/31/EU and 2014/32/EU. The requirements of this 
regulation do not apply to measuring instruments not placed on the market in the Czech 
Republic for purposes  other than the above purposes defined by Act No  505/1990 on 
metrology.  
The purpose of this notified legislation is to lay down metrological and technical 
requirements for legally controlled measuring instruments of the type specified above. 
This legislat ion also lays down the tests for the purposes of type approval and verification 
of legally controlled measuring instruments of the type specified above.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  In the Czech Rep ublic, instruments for measuring the instantaneous values 
and short - and long -term averages of the 222Rn activity concentration in air and water 
and the 222Rn equivalent activity concentration are legally controlled measuring 
instruments that are subject t o mandatory type approval and verification.  
8. Relevant documents:   
Reference(s) to basic text(s):  
• Act No  505/1990 on metrology, as amended  
• § 171 et seq. of Act No  500/2004, the Code of Administrative Procedure, as 
amended  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  31 October 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force:  15 November 2019  
10. Final date for comments:  23 September 2019  
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 any issue 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 80 2 212  
Telefax: (+420) 221 802 440  
E-mail: wto.tbt@unmz.cz    
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/CZE/19_3833_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/CZE/19_3833_00_x.pdf