Measuring instruments - European standards

Harmonised Standards by European Standardisation Organisations

Both Directives provide for Member States presuming conformity with the essential requirements (Article 6 of Directive 2009/23/EC ; Article 13.1 of Directive 2004/22/EC ) in respect of instruments complying with European harmonised standards, the references in respect of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union C-series.

Under Directive Directive 2009/23/EC the references of one harmonised standard on non-automatic weighing instruments has been published in the OJ 94 / C 153 of 04.06.1994 .

The references of harmonised standards have been published in the OJ 2011 / C 292 of 5.10.2011 (p.6) .

Normative documents by OIML

According to Article 13.2 of Directive 2004/22/EC normative documents by the "Organisation Internationale de la Métrologie Légale" (OIML) may be identified as giving the presumption of conformity with the essential requirements in the Directive after an advisory vote in the Measuring Instruments Committee. The references to the normative documents have been published in OJ 2006 / C 269 of 4.11.2006 (p.1) ,  OJ 2009 / C 268 of 10.11.2009 (p.1) , OJ 2011 / C 33 of 2.2.2011 (p.1) and OJ 2011 / C 33 of 2.2.2011 (p.13) .

A number of guidance documents explain in more detail how the published references should be understood, notably where there is mention of 'partial coverage', which in no way should be understood as devaluing the OIML recommendation, see under Guidance Documents .