G/TBT/N/CZE/225  
 
6 August 2018  
(18-4960) 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): Installed 
meters, warning assemblies, and dosimetric quantity monitors for gamma radiation and X -
rays with energie s from 50 keV to 1.5 MeV; Radiation measurements (ICS 17.240).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft General 
Measure number: 0111 -OOP-C080-16 laying down the metrological and technical 
requirements for specified measuring instruments, including testing methods for type 
approval and verification of the following specified instruments: 'installed meters, warning 
assemblies, and dosimetric gamma radiation and X -ray quantity monitors with energies 
from 50 keV to 1.5 M eV' (13 page(s), in Czech; 13 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: Installed meters, warning assemblies, and dosimetric quantity 
monitors for gamma radiation and X -rays with energies from 50 keV to 1.5 MeV are placed 
on the market and put int o use in the Czech Republic as specified measuring instruments 
following type approval and initial verification pursuant to Act No. 505/1990 on metrology, 
as amended. This legislation contains national metrological regulation of type approval and 
verificat ion of these measuring instruments.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: In the Czech Republic, installed meters, warning assemblies, and dosimetric 
quantity monitors for gamma radiation and X -rays with ene rgies from 50 keV to 1.5 MeV 
are specified measuring instruments that are subject to mandatory type approval and 
verification.  G/TBT/N/CZE/225  
 
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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 is an issue with downloading the document, you can contact us at:  
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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