. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CZE/158 
30 May 2012  
 (12-2825) 
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):  Electronic thermometers 
for checking ambient and hot wate r temperatures with intervals of 0.1°C and smaller that are 
used by state inspection bodies (HS 9025)   
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document:  Draft General Measure 
establishing the metrological and technical re quirements for legal m easuring instruments, 
including testing methods for the type appr oval and verification of legal measuring 
instruments: "electronic thermometers for checking ambient and hot utility water 
temperatures with intervals of 0.1°C and smal ler that are used by state inspection bodies" 
(11 pages, in Czech).     
6. Description of content:  The General Measure establishes the metrological and technical 
requirements for legal measuring instruments, including testi ng methods for the verification 
of legal measuring instruments,  which are in this case electronic thermometers for checking 
ambient and hot water temperatures with interval s of 0.1°C and smaller that are used by state 
inspection bodies.  
Electronic thermometers for checking ambien t and hot utility water temperatures with 
intervals of 0.1°C and smaller that are used by state inspection bodi es are legal measuring 
instruments within the meaning of Section 3( 3) of Act No 505/1990 Coll. on metrology, as 
amended, and are therefore subject to state metrological control, i.e. type approval and 
verification. At present, the metrological and technical requirements for such thermometers are contained in relatively old metrological regul ations. This situation must be addressed by 
the incorporation of the requirements into the binding General Measure within the meaning of 
Section 24c of Act No 505/1990 Coll. on metrol ogy, as amended, in or der to avoid problems 
with their enforceability. G/TBT/N/CZE/158 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Measuring instrument, thermome ter, ambient temperature, water temperature, metrological 
requirement, technical require ment, testing method, verifi cation of legal measuring 
instruments.  
8. Relevant documents:    
References to basic texts: 
- Act No 505/1990 Coll. on metrology, as amended; 
- Section 171 et seq. of Act No 500/2004 Coll. , the Administrative Code, as amended.  
The basic texts were submitted under a 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 addresse s, if available of the other body:  
http://www.unmz.cz /, wto.tbt@unmz.cz  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/CZE/12_1962_00_e.pdf