PART IIPLACING ON THE MARKET AND PUTTING INTO USE OF COLD-WATER METERS
Compliance with the essential requirements5
1
A manufacturer may demonstrate that a cold-water meter is compliant with the essential requirements by—
a
using any technical solution that is compliant with the essential requirements;
b
correctly applying solutions set out in the relevant national standard; or
c
correctly applying solutions set out in the relevant normative document,
and selecting and following one of the conformity assessment procedures.
2
A cold-water meter which is compliant with the relevant national standard or relevant normative document shall be presumed to be compliant with the essential requirements.
3
Where the cold-water meter is compliant only in part with the relevant national standard or relevant normative document, it shall be presumed to be compliant only with that part of the essential requirements which corresponds to the element of the relevant national standard or relevant normative document with which the instrument is compliant.
4
Where a cold-water meter includes or is connected to a device which is not used for trade—
a
that device shall not be subject to the essential requirements; and
b
the instrument may be considered to be compliant with the essential requirements notwithstanding that the compliance of that device with the essential requirements has not been established.