Directive 2009/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 9

1. When an instrument is submitted for EC initial verification, the Member State carrying out the examination shall determine:

(a) whether the instrument belongs to a category exempt from EC pattern approval and, if so, whether it satisfies the technical construction and functioning requirements laid down by the separate Directives relating to that instrument;

(b) whether the instrument has received EC pattern approval and, if so, whether it conforms to the approved pattern, and to the separate Directives relating to that instrument, in force on the date of issue of that EC pattern approval.

2. The examination carried out in EC initial verification relates in particular, in accordance with the separate Directives, to:

(a) the metrological characteristics;

(b) the maximum permissible errors;

(c) the construction, in so far as this guarantees that the measurement characteristics are not likely to deteriorate to any great extent under normal conditions of use;

(d) the presence of prescribed inscriptions and stamp plates or provisions for EC initial verification marking.