Directive 2014/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of non-automatic weighing instruments (recast) (Text with EEA relevance) (c. 31)

CHAPTER 1 U.K. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1 U.K. Scope

1. This Directive shall apply to all non-automatic weighing instruments.

2. For the purposes of this Directive, the following categories of use of non-automatic weighing instruments shall be distinguished:

(a) determination of mass for commercial transactions;

(b) determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff, tax, bonus, penalty, remuneration, indemnity or similar type of payment;

(c) determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations or for an expert opinion given in court proceedings;

(d) determination of mass in the practice of medicine for weighing patients for the purposes of monitoring, diagnosis and medical treatment;

(e) determination of mass for making up medicines on prescription in a pharmacy and determination of mass in analyses carried out in medical and pharmaceutical laboratories;

(f) determination of price on the basis of mass for the purposes of direct sales to the public and the making-up of prepackages;

(g) all applications other than those listed in points (a) to (f).