CZECH REPUBLIC: PUMPS FOR FLUIDS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif. 95.286. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: CZECH REPUBLIC. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Czech Office for Standards, Metrology and State Testing. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Pumps for fluids. Vessels and other devices resistant to explosion of industrial dusts (except pressure vessels). 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Draft Decree No. Z-303/1995 of the COSMT Determining the Products Subject to Approval at Testing Laboratory No. 210 (available in Czech, 1 page). 6. Description of content: The Draft Decree determines products which, when used, could endanger seriously the lives or environment, without user having the possibility of recognizing this hazard beforehand. Pumps for fluid (only those used in fuel racks); vessels and devices resistant to explosions of industrial dusts (except pressure vessels). 7. Objective and rationale: Protection of user and environment. 8. Relevant documents: Law No. 30/1968 Coll. on State Testing, in the later wording. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 1 January 1996. 10. Final date for comments: 20 October 1995. (290)

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