Article 1Scope
1.This Directive shall apply to all non-automatic weighing instruments.
2.For the purposes of this Directive, the following categories of use of non-automatic weighing instruments shall be distinguished:
(a)determination of mass for commercial transactions;
(b)determination of mass for the calculation of a toll, tariff, tax, bonus, penalty, remuneration, indemnity or similar type of payment;
(c)determination of mass for the application of laws or regulations or for an expert opinion given in court proceedings;
(d)determination of mass in the practice of medicine for weighing patients for the purposes of monitoring, diagnosis and medical treatment;
(e)determination of mass for making up medicines on prescription in a pharmacy and determination of mass in analyses carried out in medical and pharmaceutical laboratories;
(f)determination of price on the basis of mass for the purposes of direct sales to the public and the making-up of prepackages;
(g)all applications other than those listed in points (a) to (f).