Announcement of a new national benchmark

On 17 March 2026, the Office for Technical Standardisation, Metrology and State Testing announced a new national standard for thermodynamic temperature, which is held by the Czech Metrology Institute, Prague Regional Inspectorate.

The technical specifications of the new national standard, including its metrological characteristics, are set out in the approval report dated 17 March 2026, which is held by the Metrology Department of the National Institute of Physics and Metrology (ÚNMZ) and by the Fundamental Metrology Section of the Czech Metrology Institute in Prague.

The notice regarding the approval of the new national standard was published in issue 4 of the ÚNMZ Bulletin. Overview national standards is published on the ÚNMZ website.

The Czech Republic currently has 68 national standards, of which 65 are held by the Czech Metrology Institute and 3 are held by affiliated laboratories – the Research Institute of Geodesy, Topography and Cartography (VÚGTK v.v.i.) in Zdiby and the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ÚFE AV ČR v.v.i.) in Prague.