PROPOSAL for the abolition of the Regulation on metrological requirements for measuring instruments used for the measurement of insulation resistance, loop impedance, earth resistance of connections and equipotential bonding connections and earth resistance (U.L. RS 26 / 2.3.2002). The cited Regulation is the successor of the Yugoslav Regulations of OJ SFRY 32/87, 58/85, 31/84 and 13/83 and was issued in 2002 on the basis of the first and the fourth paragraph of Article 11 of the Law on Metrology (OJ RS 22/00).2. It was fully adapted to the requirements and content of the then new Slovenian standards SIST EN 61557 -1, -2, -3, -4, and -5. These are the standards which prescribe the design and construction of measuring instruments for the measurement of the electrical quantities mentioned in the title of the Regulation and which are measured mainly for the purpose of verifying the safe operation of electrical installations.3. The above standards are the basis for the design, construction and operation of measuring instruments intended for the measurement of the four electrical quantities mentioned.4.The Regulation duplicates what is already required to be observed by the manufacturer of measuring equipment who refers to the cited European and therefore also Slovenian standardisation documents, which are intended for manufacturers of specific measuring equipment, as follows :The Regulation prescribes terms and definitions copied from the cited standards :- Chapter II MEASUREMENT REQUIREMENTS in Articles 3. Chapter III TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS,- Chapter IV CAPTIONS AND MARKS and Chapter V ASSESSMENT OF COMPLIANCE refer to the above-mentioned standards and in the last Chapter VI are added all the bureaucratic and technical requirements already known to the Yugoslav predecessors of the Regulation. The correct implementation of the provisions of the Regulation by the Office of Metrology has made it more difficult for :- Slovenian manufacturers and sellers of measuring equipment covering the above-mentioned areas of measurement to market their equipment to Slovenian users. The equipment manufactured in Slovenia, which is mainly exported (up to 95%), arrives on the Slovenian market with an average delay of one year in relation to sales on foreign markets, which do not have the same Regulations as we do, due to duplication of meaningless checks by the Office,- almost completely excluded all foreign manufacturers of the above mentioned measuring equipment, because they:a.) do not want to cover the costs for re-verification of the metrological characteristics of the measuring equipment declared by them as compliant with the above standards (mainly also due to the low need and economic strength of the Slovenian market and the high costs of type approvals by the Office), b.) are not prepared to provide and disclose technological secrets and specific features of the protected software of the instruments for the prescribed verification procedure by the Office for Metrology, which is required by the Office for its type approval procedure, - due to the above described procedures, practically all modern foreign (and also some domestic) measuring equipment for the purpose of verification of the safety of electrical installations has been excluded from the Slovenian economic area,- due to the administrative and technical requirements of the Office when renewing expired type approvals, these are not renewed and therefore older but technically still perfectly usable measuring equipment becomes unusable,- foreign manufacturers of the equipment in question request their Slovenian representatives to lodge a complaint with the Commission of the European Communities for non-compliance with Community law relating to the unity of the EU market.In the light of the above, we propose :1. The abolition of the "Regulation on metrological requirements for measuring instruments used for measuring insulation resistance, loop impedance, earth resistance of connections and equipotential bonding connections and earth resistance". (UL RS 26/2002).Purpose :The abolition of the Regulation would achieve :- the alignment of the Slovenian legal order in the field of electrotechnical metrology with all other European countries which do not have similar regulations,- the opening of the Slovenian market for specific measuring equipment, which is now practically closed due to the Rules in the field regulated by them,- indirectly simplifying and cheapening the performance of safety testing of electrical installations, electrical equipment of machinery and lightning conductors,- putting Slovenian providers of safety measurements of electrical installations on an equal footing with providers in Europe, which do not have a similar regulation,- removing unnecessary administrative and technical barriers and costs associated with this.Positive consequences of the abolition of the Regulation :- by exempting measuring instruments from the scope of legal measurement (Metrology Act, OJ RS 22/2000 and 86/2004), instruments for measuring electrical quantities regulated by the Regulation would be put on an equal footing with other measuring equipment for measuring electromagnetic quantities and, like all other measuring equipment, would be calibrated or calibrated in accordance with the provisions of the Metrology Act (Metrology Act, OJ RS 22/2000 and 86/2004),- the safety and reliability of the measurements of loop impedance, continuity of protective conductors and equipotential bonding, insulation resistance and earth resistance would not be compromised, as this is consistently regulated by the new Slovenian Regulations and Technical Guidelines of 2009 (OJ RS 41/2009) for the field of electrical installations, lightning conductors and machinery. They consistently require measurement procedures and measuring equipment that comply with the Slovenian standard SIST EN 61557, which is the direct basis of the Regulation.2The introduction of metrological control of equipment measuring the electrical quantities referred to in the repealed Regulation in point 1. so that this control would be carried out every two years or verified for the periods for which the manufacturer guarantees the accuracy of the measuring instrument in normal use.The verification could only be carried out by measuring laboratories registered by the Slovenian Accreditation (SA).Reports of measurements carried out (safety checks of electrical installations within the meaning of the Regulation on requirements for LV electrical installations - OJ RS 41/2009 and Technical Guideline TSG-N-002: 2009)) should be obligatorily accompanied by a report on the last calibration of the measuring instrument, which would measure the loop resistance, insulation resistance, earth sink resistance and/or continuity of the protective conductor. Only measuring instruments complying with the Slovenian (European) standard SIST EN 61557 could be used to perform the measurements referred to in the above paragraph.