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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/ALB/55 
1 May 2012  
 (12-2295) 
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:  ALBANIA  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Minister of Economy, Trade and Energy. 
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 :  National Enquiry 
Point. 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):  Measuring instruments. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Decision of 
Council of Ministers "On approval of the techni cal regulation for the essential requirements 
and conformity assessment of measuring instru ments" (99 pages, available in Albanian 
language).     
6. Description of content:  This Draft Decision of Council of Ministers approves  the technical 
regulations which shall apply to measuring inst ruments. The Technical Regulation establishes 
the requirements that the measuri ng instruments referred in clause 1 have to satisfy with a 
view to their being placed on th e market and/or put into use.  
The measuring instruments are as follows: 
- water meters (MI-001), 
- gas meters and volume conversion devices (MI-002), - active electrical energy meters (MI-003),  - heat meters (MI-004), 
- measuring systems for continuous and dynam ic measurement of qu antities of liquids 
 other than water (MI-005),  - automatic weighing in struments (MI-006),  
- taximeters (MI-007),  - material measures (MI-008), - dimensional measuring instruments (MI-009) and 
- exhaust gas analysers (MI-010). G/TBT/N/ALB/55 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
state shall take all appropriate measures to ensure that the measuring instruments be placed on 
the market and/or put into use only if they  satisfy the requirements of this Technical 
Regulation.  
8. Relevant documents:    
- Directive 2004/24/EC of the European  Parliament and of the Council of 
 31 March 2004 "On measuring instruments". - Albanian Law No. 10480, date 17 Novemb er 2011 "On general safety of non-food 
 products. 
- Albanian Law No. 10489, date 15 D ecember 2011 "On trading and market 
 surveillance of  non-food products 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    April 2012 
July 2012 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days after circulati on by WTO Secretariat 
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:    
General Directorate of Standardization 
WTO Enquiry Point - ALBANIA Tel.:  + 355 42 22 62 55 
Fax:  + 355 42 24 71 77 
E-mail:  info@dps.gov.al  
Website:  http://www.dps.gov.al