WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CZE/14
3 August 2001
(01-3874)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   CZECH REPUBLIC
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Industry and Trade
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
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, otherwis e national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Alcoholometers and
alcohol hydrometers.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Decree of the
Ministry of Industry and Trade which lays down the Requirements for Alcoholometers and
Alcohol Hydrometers Bearing the EEC Mark a nd for the Method of Expressing Alcoholic
Strength by Volume or by Mass, and gives a Formula to Enable Tables to Be Drawn Up forCalculating Alcoholic Strength on the Basis of the Measurements Taken (10 pages, in
Czech).
6. Description of content:    The draft decree lays down the requirements for alcoholometers
and alcohol hydrometers bearing the EEC mark and for the method of expressing alcoholic
strength, by volume or by mass, and gives a formula to enable tables to be drawn up for
calculating alcoholic strength on the basis of the measurements taken.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To harmonize the Czech legal system with EC law.
8. Relevant documents:   Act No 505/1990 Coll. on Metrology, as amended by
Act No 119/2000 Coll., Council Directive 76/765/EEC, Council Directive 76/766/EEC,
Commission Directive 82/624/EEC.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  31 December 2001
Proposed date of entry into force:  the date of the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU
10. Final date for comments:   30 September 2001
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body: www.unmz.cz ,
wto.tbt@unmz.cz