PART IIITESTING

Capacity measures imported from F2a member State or EEA StateI113

1

In relation to capacity measures imported into Great Britain from F3a member State or an EEA State, subject to paragraph (4) below, an inspector shall not carry out any test in accordance with the provisions of regulations 8 to 12 above if, together with the measures being imported, he is presented with the requisite documentation.

2

In this regulation and in regulation 16 below “requisite documentation” means—

a

the test report of an approved body that the capacity measures which are the subject of that report have been tested on the same basis as those set out in regulations 8 to 12 above and stating which tests have been applied to them; and

b

the test results relating to those tests.

F13

A body is an “approved body” for the purposes of this regulation if it is a body in a member State or in an EEA State which has responsibility in that State for metrological control of capacity measures or is a laboratory which has been accredited for the purposes of testing capacity measures in a member State or in an EEA State as being a body which conforms with the criteria set out in BS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2000.

4

Nothing in these Regulations shall prevent an inspector testing in accordance with regulations 8 to 12 above where he is not satisfied—

a

that the test report or the results presented to him are authentic; or

b

that the test results presented to him are results which in fact relate to the capacity measures being imported.