WTO notification · TBT
NamibiaProposed measure, may since have been adopted
Official title
Metrology Act, 2022 (Act No. 5 of 2022)
Namibia notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 1 October 2025.
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Published here:
Metrology and measurement. Physical phenomena; Packaging and distribution of goods
The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/NAM/12; it forwards comments to Namibia.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)To provide for the administration and supervision of metrology; to designate the Namibian Standards Council as the governance board for metrology; to provide for the functions of the Namibian Standards Institution and the appointment of the head of metrology and other professionals in metrology; to provide for legal units of measurements and legal metrology technical regulations, national measurement standards and to ensure their comparability to international measurement standards; to provide for metrological supervision and control; to provide for type approval and verification of measuring instruments, restrictions on use and possession of measuring instruments; to provide for repair of measuring instruments and registration of metrology technicians; to repeal the Measuring Units and National Measuring Standards Act, 1973 and the Trade Metrology Act, 1973; and to provide for incidental matters.
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WTO notificationSPSProposed measure, not in force yetNew
To provide for the appointment of the Registrar of seed and seed varieties and the registration of producers, processors and dealers of seed and control over imports and exports of seed; to provide for the establishment of the Namibia Seed Council and the Seed Varieties Committee and their powers…
Symbol: G/SPS/N/NAM/2
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