Its almost here! The Directive comes into operation throughout the EU on 30th October 2006. For the weighing industry this means that all types of automatic weighing instruments currently controlled by national legislation will, from that date, be subject to the implementing regulations. However instruments that are currently in use will continue to be controlled by the national regulations although no new types of equipment can be approved to those regulations after 30th October. Existing national type approvals will continue in force until their normal expiry date but they will not give access to those EU markets where they are not in effect at the moment.
The UK implementing regulations are now available, they are:
- The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Discontinuous Totalisers) Regulations 2006 SI 2006/1255
- The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Rail-weighbridges) Regulations 2006 SI 2006/1256
- The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Catchweighers) Regulations 2006 SI 2006/1257
- The Measuring Instruments (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2006 SI 2006/1258
- The Measuring Instruments (Beltweighers) Regulations 2006 SI 2006/1259
They can be downloaded from the Office of Public Sector Information website at
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/stat.htm
NWML leaflets giving basic information on the impact of the regulations should be available from their website at
http://www.nwml.gov.uk/mid.aspx
More information for members will be available at the Southern Regional Meeting in October. | 
