{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1213/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1213/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/1213",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1213 of 12 July 2019 laying down detailed provisions ensuring uniform conditions for the implementation of interoperability and compatibility of on-board weighing equipment pursuant to Council Directive 96/53/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1213",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "OBW-workshops",
  "text": "1. Member States shall approve, regularly audit and certify the OBW-workshops allowed to perform inspections of on-board weighing equipment.\n2. Member States shall ensure that OBW-workshops located in their territories perform inspections of on-board weighing equipment in a reliable way. For that purpose, they shall establish and publish a set of procedures ensuring that the following minimum criteria are met:\n(a) the staff of the OBW-workshop is properly trained;\n(b) the equipment necessary to carry out the relevant tests and tasks is available and has been certified according to Directive 2014/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council or Directive 2014/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;\n(c) the workshops are of good repute.\n3. OBW-workshops shall be subject to the following audits:\n(a) at least every five years, to an audit performed by a supervising body on the procedures applied when handling on-board weighing equipment. The audit shall focus on the tasks and activities laid down in point 1 of Annex V to Directive 2014/45/EU; the supervising body shall fulfil the requirements laid down in point 2 of that Annex;\n(b) unannounced technical audits may also take place in order to check the installations, inspections and, where appropriate, calibrations carried out.\n4. Member States shall take appropriate measures to prevent conflicts of interests between OBW-workshops and transport undertakings. In particular, where there is a serious risk of conflict of interests, including the ownership of OBW-workshops by transport undertakings, additional specific measures shall be taken to ensure that OBW-workshops comply with this Article.\n5. The competent authorities of the Member States shall publish on their websites an updated list of OBW-workshops, with at least the following data:\n(a) workshop identification number and name of [entity/entities constituting] the workshop;\n(b) postal address;\n(c) email address;\n(d) telephone number.\n6. The competent authorities in Member States shall withdraw approvals, either temporarily or permanently, from OBW-workshops which fail to meet their obligations under this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Directive 2014/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to the making available on the market of non-automatic weighing instruments (OJ L 96, 29.3.2014, p. 107)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Directive 2014/32/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to the making available on the market of measuring instruments (OJ L 96, 29.3.2014, p. 149)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1213/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:13.537892+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}