CHAPTER 1GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1Scope

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).