COL/266
WTO/TBT
CO Colombia
  • 90 - Optical, photographic, cinematographic, measuring, checking, precision, medical or surgical instruments and apparatus; parts and accessories thereof
2023-09-24
2023-08-29

9027.10.90.00: Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes. Gas or smoke analysis apparatus. Other. 9027.89.90.00: Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like; instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light (including exposure meters); microtomes.

Resolución 35152 de junio 26 de 2023, "Por la cual se modifica el Capítulo Noveno del Título VI de la Circular Única de la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio" (Resolution No. 35152 of 26 June 2023 amending the ninth chapter of Title VI of the Single Circular of the Supervisory Authority for Industry and Trade) (43 pages, in Spanish)

In view of International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) recommendation R126:2021 "Evidential Breath Analyzers", the technical and metrological requirements to be met by the measurement instruments known as evidential breath analysers have been standardized, with a view to ensuring the quality of the measurements that they provide. The international standard was updated in 2021 and constitutes the technical basis for the notified technical metrological regulation. The validity of the technical metrological regulation applicable to evidential breath analysers, issued under Resolution No. 88919 of 28 December 2017 and amended by Resolutions No. 32074 of 26 June 2020 and No. 38984 of 21 June 2022, has been extended until 31 December 2023.