Regulation 3 ApplicationI1
United Kingdom
These Regulations apply F1only to bottles or other containers described in Article 1 of the Directive and therein called measuring container bottles.to bottles made of glass, or any other substance having the rigidity and stability that offers the same metrological guarantees as glass, when such bottles—
are stoppered or designed to be stoppered and are intended for the storage, transport or delivery of liquids,
have a nominal capacity of between 0.05 litre and five litres inclusive, and
have metrological characteristics (design characteristics and uniformity of manufacture)
such that they can be used as measuring containers, i.e. when they are filled up to a specified level or to a specified percentage of their brim capacity their contents can be measured with sufficient accuracy.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 3 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 3 (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)