The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 696

SCHEDULE 26 Amendment of the Non-automatic Weighing Instruments Regulations 2016

Amendment to regulation 44

30.  For regulation 44 (general principles relating to the M marking) substitute—

“Prohibition on improper use of UK marking and the M marking

44.— (1) An economic operator must not affix the UK marking or the M marking to a regulated non-automatic weighing instrument unless—

(a) that economic operator is the manufacturer of the non-automatic weighing instrument; and

(b) the conformity of the non-automatic weighing instrument with the essential requirements has been demonstrated by a conformity assessment procedure.

(2) An economic operator must not affix a marking to a regulated non-automatic weighing instrument which is not the UK marking or the M marking but which purports to attest that the non-automatic weighing instrument satisfies the essential requirements.

(3) An economic operator must not affix to a regulated non-automatic weighing instrument any other marking if the visibility, legibility and meaning of the UK marking or the M marking would be impaired as a result.”.