Explanatory note
United Kingdom
(This note does not form part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1907) as amended (“the principal Regulations”) to provide for a substituted Part III to the principal Regulations with modification.
The principal Regulations have two purposes. First, they implemented Council Directive 90/384/EEC (as amended by Council Directive 93/68/EEC) on the harmonisation of the laws of the member States relating to non-automatic weighing instruments (“instruments”). Secondly, the principal Regulations contained provisions in their Part III in relation to instruments which are used for trade.
These Regulations modify the principal Regulations to–
allow a Class IIII instrument to be used for trade for the purposes of weighing any material the disposal of which constitutes a landfill disposal and any household, industrial or commercial waste (regulation 2);
provide consequential amendments.
In other respects the substituted Part III of the principal Regulations re-makes the earlier provisions.
These Regulations have been notified to the European Commission in draft form pursuant to Council Directive 83/189/EEC, as amended, now codified by Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.