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Measuring instruments subjected to mandatory verification

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Denomination

Authority

 

Chapter I

 

 

Instruments used for measuring reasons of public interest, public health, public safety, public order, protection of the environment, protection of consumers, levying of taxes and duties and of fair trading:

 

1

Water meters

MMBH

 

a) main water meters

 

 

b) for clearing of accounts

 

 

c) auxiliary water meters for cost allocation

 

2

Gas meters and volume converter devices

MMBH

 

a) gas meters of nominal flow rate of 6 m3/h and under

 

 

a) gas meters of nominal flow rate of above 6 m3/h

 

3

Active electrical energy meters

MMBH

4

Heat meters

MMBH

5

Measuring systems for the continuous and dynamic measurement of quantities of liquids other than water except of fuel dispensers

MKEH-MH

 

a) mineral oil products, beer, champagne, LPG, alcohol products, milk

 

 

b) other fluids

 

 

Fuel dispenser

MMBH

6

Automatic weighing instruments

MMBH

7

Taximeters

MMBH

8

Material measures

MMBH

 

a) Tape measures and gauge rods for measuring of storage tank level

 

 

b) Other material measures (measure of length, capacity measure)

 

9

Dimensional measuring instruments (length measuring instruments, area measuring instruments, multi-dimensional measuring instruments)

MMBH

10

Exhaust gas analyzers

MMBH

 

Chapter II

 

11

Non-automatic weighing instruments

MMBH

 

a) which serve for determination of mass

 

 

- for commercial transactions

 

 

- for the calculation of toll, tariff, tax, penalty, indemnity or similar type of payment

 

 

- for the application of laws or regulations, expert’s opinions given in court proceedings

 

 

- for the purpose of making up medicines or products with curing effects in the pharmacies and during analyses carried out in medical or pharmaceutical laboratories

 

 

b) for determination of prices on the basis of mass for the purpose of direct sales to the public and in the makig-up of prepackages.

 


 

Chapter III

Used for measurements with legal consequences

 

12

Weights of accuracy classes F2, M1, M2, M3 and of medium accuracy

MMBH

 

Weights of accuracy classes E1, E2, F1, F2, M1, M2, M3 and of medium accuracy

MKEH-MH

13

Axle and wheel load measuring instruments for road transport

MMBH

14

Speedometers for vehicles

MKEH-MH

15

Tyre pressure meters

MMBH

16

Density measuring instruments

MKEH-MH

 

- hydrometers for density measurement of mineral oil and products, must, alcoholic drinks and milk, pycnometers

 

 

- densitometers and density transmitters working continuously

 

17

Dosimeters for radiation protection and therapy level, and radioactive surface contamination meters

MKEH-MH

18

Noise level meters for environmental protection, labour-safety and other official controls

MKEH-MH

19

Devices for gambling games

MMBH

 

Drawing programs and instruments, roulette wheels, gambling machines working in casinos

MKEH-MH 

20

Current and voltage transformers

MMBH

 

special current and voltage transformers

MKEH-MH

21

Measuring instruments used for execution of  special legal regulation (Act on excise) and are not listed in I/5 point

MMBH

 

a) storage tank first verification

 

 

b) storage tank subsequent verification

 

 

c) storage tank level gauge

 

 

d) flow meters for alcohol

 

 

e) alcoholmeters

 

22

Breath alcohol analyzers

MKEH-MH

23

Measuring systems with orifice-plate for natural gas

MMBH

a) The first line of the chapters contains in which case the given measuring instrument is to be verified

b)  MMBH=Metrological and Technical Safety Authority belonging to the regional government offices

c)      MKEH-MH= Metrology Authority (it’s professional competent section)

d) The prices are no longer valid for the first (national) verification of measuring instruments belonging to Chapter II, and from 2016 for verifications of instruments belonging to Chapter I. These kind of measuring instruments shell be abide to the declaration modules laid down in EU directives or in the national legal regulations which transposed these directives.

e) EC declaration of conformity may only be assessed by notified bodies registered in Brussels.

f) The verification of measuring instruments not listed in the table above, that is, which are not subjected to mandatory verification, is not compulsory and not even possible. The accuracy of this kind of measuring instruments shell be assured by other way, for example by calibration. Instruments used for measurements with legal consequences and not subjected to mandatory verification, may only be instruments calibrated with standards.

 


Date of last update: 2023-10-10