. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/ARG/139
3 October 2003
(03-5215)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  ARGENTINA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. Agency responsible:  Technical Coordination Secretariat (SCT)
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:   Idem  National
enquiry point
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [    ], 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
and apparatus
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Law No. 19.511 -
General Legal Metrology Requirements for Measuring Instruments  (7 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   Adoption of the Technical Regulation Establishing General Legal
Metrology Requirements for Measuring Instruments, including the structure of technicalregulations harmonized within MERCOSUR a nd general instructions on metrological
control operations.
The application of this Technical Regulation will be extended to cover all existing
and future Argentine metrological technical regulations, as well as those harmonized within
MERCOSUR.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Incorporation into Argentine Legisl ation of MERCOSUR Common Market Group
Resolution No. 51/1997 establishing general legal metrology requirements for measuring
instruments marketed and used in MERCOSUR St ates parties, irrespective of origin, and
providing for the mutual recognition of metrological control procedures, with a view to
facilitating trade in such goods between the signatory countries.
8. Relevant documents:   Technical Coordination Secretariat  (SCT) Resolution No. 48/2003.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  19 September 2003  (Official Journal)
Proposed date of entry into force:  22 September 2003
10. Final date for comments:   -G/TBT/N/ARG/139
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11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X], or address, telephone and fax
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of other body:
Focal Point of the Argentine Republic
National Directorate of Domestic Trade (DNCI)
Avda. J. A. Roca 651, 4th floor, Sector 2
(C1067ABB) Buenos Aires
Tel.:  (54 11) 4349-4067
Fax:  (54 11) 4349-4072
E-mail:  focalotc@mecon.gov.ar
Web site:  http://www.puntofocal.gov.ar