{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1975-107/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1975-107/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1975/107",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 19 December 1974 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to bottles used as measuring containers (75/107/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1975-107",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Directive\nof 19 December 1974\non the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to bottles used as measuring containers\n(75/107/EEC)\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty setting up the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof;\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission;\nHaving regard to the Opinion of the European Parliament;\nHaving regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee;\nWhereas in several Member States the manufacture and testing of bottles used as measuring containers are the subject of mandatory regulations which differ from one Member State to another, thereby hindering trade in this type of bottle; whereas such provisions must therefore be approximated;\nWhereas bottles used as measuring containers must have special metrological characteristics and it is necessary for this purpose to specify the maximum errors permissible in their nominal capacity and to define a reference method for checking such errors;\nWhereas it is essential that bottles used as measuring containers should, as laid down in the Directive, bear not only an indication of their nominal capacity but also the information required for filling them,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No C 56, 2. 6. 1972, p. 35."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No C 123, 27. 11. 1972, p. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1975/107/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}