WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.98.586
9 December 1998
(98-4931)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  SPAIN
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  Spanish Metrology Centre (Ministry of Development)
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):  Weighing instruments
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Order Regulating
State Metrological Control of Non-Automatic Weighing Instruments in Testing Following
Repair or Modification and Periodic Checking (18 pages)
6. Description of content:  Regulation of the testing stages following repair or modification
and periodic checking;  activities of repair mechanics and the like, requests, procedures anddeadlines, and maximum permissible errors.  Requirements for inscription in the
Meteorological Test Register, tests to be conducted.
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The
purpose of this Order is to regulate State metrological control during the two
above-mentioned stages of non-automatic weighing instruments coming within the scope of
application of the Order of 22 December 1994 of the Ministry of Public Works, Transport
and the Environment.
8. Relevant documents:  Law 3/1985 on Me trology of 18 March;  R.D. 1616/1985 of
11 September;  Order of 22 December 1994 (incorporating Directive 90/384/EEC of20 June).
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }January – February 1999 (13/01/99 marks the endof the three-month European Commission
reporting period).
10. Final date for comments:  13 January 1999
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ] or address, e-mail and telefax number of
the other body:  Metrological Centre (Tres Cantos)