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This ESSENTIAL describes the UK regulations on Automatic Weighing Instruments after BREXIT for England, Scotland and Wales, based on:
- The Measuring Instruments Regulations 2016
- the The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and other amendments
- BREXIT Guidance dokuments published by the UK government (see: Link/Reference to other reference documents)
Regulations for Northern Ireland are not included in this CRF.
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Legislation in force: |
The purpose of this Statutory Instrument is to implement the MID (Measurement Instrument Directive) 2014/32/EU of the European Union.
The 2016 British Regulation implemented Directive 2014/32/EU on measuring instruments and replaced fifteen individual regulations (including non-prescribed instruments) with one single regulation.
The Regulations regulate the following types of measuring instruments:
- water meters
- gas meters
- active electrical energy meters
- non-water liquid measuring systems
- automatic weighing instruments:
a) automatic catchweighers
b) automatic gravimetric filling instruments
c) discontinuous totalisers
d) beltweighers
e) automatic rail weighbridges
- taximeters
- material measures
- exhaust gas analysers
This S.I. (Statutory Instrument) changes all regulations, transposed from the European Union Directives which have been implemented during the EU membership of UK. It implements the UKCA mark for England, Scotland and Wales and the UKNI/CE mark for Northern Ireland, the approved bodies (former notified bodies) and designated standards (former harmonized standards) - as a result of the BREXIT.
Purpose of the instrument
The main objective of this instrument is to provide businesses with additional time to transition to the post-exit independent UK conformity assessment marking (UKCA) regime requirements, in order to legally place products on the market in Great Britain (England and Wales and Scotland).
The Statutory Instrument (SI) will come into force on 01-OCT-2024 and has two main objectives:
- To revoke the expiry date of the recognition of certain European Union (EU) requirements relating to goods, which is due to end on 31-DEC-2024 and to remove the associated transitional provisions which are no longer required. This will allow continued recognition of EU requirements for the product regulations within scope for goods placed on the market in Great Britain (GB); and
- To replace the expiry provision and the associated transitional provisions, with a provision that recognises EU testing or conformity assessment procedures. This will mean that, where manufacturers have undertaken conformity assessment procedures with EU recognised bodies, the United Kingdom Conformity Assessed (UKCA) marking may be used, instead of the relevant EU conformity
marking.
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Comment on the comparability to EU legislation: |
This SI 2016 No.1153 (Statutory Instrument) is being made in order to implement the provisions of the MID (Measurement Instrument Directive) 2014/32/EU of the European Union.... |