Council Directive of 19 December 1974 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to bottles used as measuring containers (75/107/EEC)

3. In order to make it possible, allowing for the usual uncertainties in filling, to measure the volume of the contents of measuring container bottles with sufficient accuracy, and in particular with the accuracy required by the Directives on prepackages, the maximum permissible errors (positive or negative) in the capacity of a measuring bottle container, i.e. the greatest differences permitted (positive or negative) at a temperature of 20^oC and under the control conditions laid down in Annex II, between the actual capacity and the nominal capacity V_n shall be in accordance with the following table:

Nominal capacity Vn in millilitres	Maximum permissible errors
	as a % of Vn	in millilitres
from 50 to 100	—	3
from 100 to 200	3	—
from 200 to 300	—	6
from 300 to 500	2	—
from 500 to 1 000	—	10
from 1 000 to 5 000	1	—

The maximum permissible error in the brim capacity shall be the same as the maximum permissible error in the corresponding nominal capacity.

The systematic exploitation of tolerances shall be prohibited.