The amendments necessary for adjusting to technical progress Annexes I and II to this Directive and the annexes to the separate Directives referred to in Article 1 shall be adopted by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive and the separate Directives, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 17(2).

However, this procedure shall apply neither to the chapter relating to imperial units of measurement of the annex to the Directive on units of measurement nor to the annexes, concerning quantity ranges for pre-packed quantities of products, to the Directives on pre-packed products.