# Council Directive of 20 January 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by weight or by volume of certain prepackaged products (76/211/EEC), Division 2: REQUIREMENTS FOR CHECKING BATCHES OF PREPACKAGES

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The checking of prepackages shall be carried out by sampling and shall be in two parts:
a check covering the actual contents of each prepackage in the sample,
another check on the average of the actual contents of the prepackages in the sample.
A batch of prepackages shall be considered acceptable if the results of both these checks satisfy the acceptance criteria.
For each of these checks, there are two sampling plans:
one for non-destructive testing, i.e., testing which does not involve opening the package,
the other for destructive testing, i.e., testing which involves opening or destroying the package.
For economic and practical reasons, the latter test shall be limited to the absolutely essential minimum; it is less effective than the non-destructive test.
Destructive testing shall therefore be used only when non-destructive testing is impracticable. As a general rule it shall not be applied to batches of fewer than 100 units.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1976/211/annex/II/division/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1976-211/annex-II/division-2
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