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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CZE/159 
30 May 2012  
 (12-2824) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  CZECH REPUBLIC  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Industry and Trade    
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 :    
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):  Thermometers for 
inspecting the temperature of frozen food produc ts used by state inspection bodies (HS 9025)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft of a general 
measure establishing metrological and techni cal requirements for specified measurement 
devices, including testing methods for the ty pe approval and validation of the specified 
measurement devices: "thermom eters for inspecting the temperature of frozen food products 
used by state inspection bodies" (12 pages, in Czech).     
6. Description of content:  General measure es tablishing metrologi cal and technical 
requirements for specif ied measurement devices, including  testing methods for the type 
approval and validation of the specified me asurement devices, which in this case are 
thermometers for inspect ing the temperature of frozen food products used by state inspection 
bodies.  
Thermometers for inspecting the temperature of  frozen food products used by state inspection 
bodies are specified measurement devices in the sense of Section 3 Paragraph 3 of Act No 
505/1990 Coll. on metrology, as amended, and are thus subject to state metrological 
inspection, i.e. type approval and validation.  At present, the metrological and technical 
requirements for such thermometers are containe d in CSN EN 13486. This situation must be 
corrected by incorporating the requirements into a binding General Measure in the sense of 
Section 24c Act No 505/1990 Coll. on metrology, as amended, in order to prevent problems 
with their enforceability. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Measurement device, thermometer, frozen food product, metrological requirement, technical 
requirement, testing method, validati on of specified measurement devices.  G/TBT/N/CZE/159 
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  8. Relevant documents:   References to primary texts:  
- Act No 505/1990 Coll. on metrology, as amended;  
- Section 171 and the following Act No 5 00/2004 Coll., the Rules of Administrative 
 Procedure, as amended.  
The primary texts were tr ansferred in the previous  notification: 2009/557/CZ. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    14 September 2012 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:     
http://www.unmz.cz /, mailto:wto.tbt@unmz.cz  
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