http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/388/regulation/8/madeThe Weighing Equipment (Automatic Gravimetric Filling Instruments) Regulations 2000Weights and measuresKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2015-04-20WEIGHTS AND MEASURESThese Regulations implement, in Great Britain, International Recommendation OIML R 61 of the Organisation Internationale de Métrologie Légale relating to automatic gravimetric filling instruments (Edition 1996 (E)), to the extent that the Recommendation applies to such instruments following the grant or renewal of a certificate of approval of a pattern by the Secretary of State under section 12 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 (the 1985 Act).PART IIGENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR USE FOR TRADEFilling Instruments imported from another EEA State8.(1)

In relation to a filling instrument imported into Great Britain from another EEA State, subject to paragraph (4), an inspector shall not carry out any test relating to initial verification testing if, together with the filling instrument being imported, he is presented with the requisite documentation.

(2)

In this regulation and regulation 9(2)–

(a)

“requisite documentation” means–

(i)

the test report, in the format set out in Part 2 of OIML R 61, of an approved body that the filling instrument which is the subject of that report has been tested on the same basis as the procedure specified in clause 5.3 (initial verification) of Part 1 of OIML R 61, and stating which tests have been applied to it; and

(ii)

the test results relating to those tests; and

(b)

EEA State” means a State which is a Contracting Party to the EEA Agreement other than the United Kingdom; and in this paragraph “the EEA Agreement” means the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993.

(3)

A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in another EEA State which has the responsibility in that State for metrological control of filling instruments or is a laboratory which has been accredited in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in EN 45001

EN 45001 is a European Standard which has the status of a British Standard; it is identical with BS7501 (ISBN 0 580 17939 7), “General criteria for the operation of testing laboratories”.

.

(4)

Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector carrying out initial verification testing where he is not satisfied–

(a)

as to the authenticity of the test report or the results presented to him; or

(b)

that the test results presented to him are results which in fact relate to the filling instrument being imported; or

(c)

subject to regulation 7(4), that the filling instrument has not been dismantled after the tests to which the test report relates were carried out.

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